Old childhood songs

My Nan taught me all the words of the rhyming song Oranges and Lemons but I hated the ending ( here comes a chopper to chop off your head!)

Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly ...

We had an LP by Mitch Miller and his orchestra with lots of sing a long songs. My dad used to play it on the radiogram on a Saturday morning and sing his way through all the songs. I particularly remember My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean as I could never figure out what it was about. I think I was about 10 before I discovered it wasn’t my body lies over the ocean! 😆

I’ve just found it on YouTube.

youtu.be/gCUGhVXUCSg?si=fMOdl9YvwFWK51vg

So many memories here!

I only lnow a couple of words of fhis song- it was Allira- who remindede of it a while back.
Its a guy singing about hos brother (Silvestre??)
Hes got an arm
What's it like??
Its like a leg!!

My bonnie lies over the ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea
My daddy lied over my mummy
And that's why they got little me😀

We sang ‘What shall we do with a drunken sailor?’ last summer at the Festival of Voices (primary school choirs, Gdd1 was a participant) ) at Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire. The Abbey was packed, there was a lot of very lusty singing!

Who remembers Nellie the Elephant? A year or two ago I found the original version (Mandy Miller) on YouTube, with a cartoon of Nellie to accompany it.
The Gdcs loved it!

Witzend

Who remembers Nellie the Elephant? A year or two ago I found the original version (Mandy Miller) on YouTube, with a cartoon of Nellie to accompany it.
The Gdcs loved it!

I sing that to my GCs as well they love it.
And they love ‘How much is that doggy in the window’.

Lots of memories here!

Yes Witzend I introduced my grandchildren to it when they were little and they loved singing along to it. Another old song I played for them was I am a mole and I live in a hole. My 2 youngest GC learned the words and made up a cute little dance to go with it.

I went by bus to school, and we often sang silly songs.
She’ll be coming round the mountain - we made up our own verses
John Brown’s body
The Quartermaster’s store
And one our lovely teacher sang to us playing his guitar,
Stewball was a Racehorse.
Happy days!

Puff the Magic Dragon
So sad

Saturday morning dance classes threw up a few -

I'm burlington Bertie, I rise at 10.30 & saunter along like a toff

Oh, the deadwood stage is coming on over the hill...whip crack away, whip crack away, whip crack away

Come on along, come on along, it's Alexander's ragtime band