Old childhood songs

I am still word perfect on 'When father papered the parlour' thanks to my grandad singing it almost daily.

Fallingstar I remember that one too!

My favourite as a small child was listening to Danny Kaye singing Ugly Duckling on the wireless in the 1950’s.
youtu.be/nDZOJVR8e6M?si=pNS3AywSNlgUllqG

This has brought some memories back.

As very young children, most likely pre school, we sang things like Teddy Bears' Picnic and Me And My Teddy Bear - just the chorus from what I now know is a Rosemary Clooney song.

merlotgran

My grandmother used to teach me old music hall songs - most with questionable lyrics. 😂

Ha ha, my old dad knew a few, I think he learned them in the navy during the war, I remember one that was not too bad -
‘There I was standing at the Church
Standing at the Church
Standing at the Church
All at once he left me in the lurch
Oh ‘ow it did upset me
Then he sent me a little note
Here’s the little note
This is what he wrote
Can’t get away to marry you today
My wife won’t let me’

Miss Adventure I was singing that as I read! Was the missing bit "cats and rats and elephants..."?

My grandmother used to teach me old music hall songs - most with questionable lyrics. 😂

Some green alligators, some long necked geese, some humpty back camels amd some chimpanzees... blah blah di blah do something, but oh so forlorn, i just couldn't see no unicorns...

Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

Camptown Races

Hearts of Oak

Songs I remeber from our music lessons at primary school when the teacher wheeled the radio thing into the classroom!

‘Bobby Shaftoe went to sea
Silver buckles at his knee
He’ll come back and marry me
Bonny Bobby Shaftoe.’

crikey , my spelling , I meant 'The big ship SAILS'

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...

'The big ship sales down the Alley alley oh, the Alley alley oh,
The big ship sales down the ally alley oh..On the last day of September ' !!!