Best loved songs from your childhood???

Elegran. There's hundreds of Music Hall songs to choose from, but I have to pick ones that suit my voice, I can't reach the high notes. I love Stanley Holloway and do a few of his songs that I remember my dad singing to me when I was a girl..."With 'er 'ed Tucked Underneath 'er Arm", "Sweeny Todd the Barber".

Thank you for your help with the 5? 3? or 2? Little Men....

I can't find this one of my father's online. Maybe he made it up!

Oh Jack was working on the farm one evening in July,
when all at once a gypsy girl went gaily tripping by.
He smiled at her as she ran barefoot through his cabbage patch.
Her hair was long and black, and she had fingernails to match.

Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm, Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ( that's the chorus!)

Jack caught her and he kissed her hand, oh, he was very keen.
It was eleven inches long, the biggest hand he'd seen.
And as he kissed that hand a thought into his head was put,
If her hand had been one inch longer, he'd have kissed a foot!

Chorus.

The day Jack wed he cried "I am the happiest man on earth".
The preacher said, " Then pay me, and give me what she's worth"
Jack gave the preacher half a crown, the preacher looked at Jack,
but then he saw his bride- to - be and gave him ninepence back.

Chorus

Oh Jack he went a roving, soon after they were wed.
His gypsy girl got lonely, and she went out with Fred.
But Jack he got to hear of this and said, "I'd better stop her".
So he flew home by aeroplane, and by hell ee copped 'er.

Chorus.

Just had another wee search and found it!

www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/benny-hill/gypsy-rock-36

I remember the other two verses now!

Bohemian, could you find any songs by Dorothy Ward or Shaun Glenville. I know there are some but can't remember titles. I think Shaun Glanville was 'if you're Irish come into the parlour or when Irish eyes are smiling. My uncle and aunt.

When I was 5 or 6 a man came to my school with a guitar and sang a new song to us. I loved it and have taught it as an assembly song throughout my career.
"Thank you for waking me this morning
Thank you for this and every day
Thank you that all my cares and worries you can take away"

Each verse goes up a semitone and gets therefore higher. Fortunately no one else at any of my schools knew that so I didn't have to do tricky piano playing!

I do remember that one, storynanny thank you for reminding us
Here it is in full:

THANK YOU
(Jack Fishman / Marty Schneider)
Thank you for waking me this morning
Thank you for giving me today
Thank you, for ev'ry new day dawning
I'll be thanking you

Thank you for ev'ry tree and flower
Thank you for ev'ry sky of blue
Thank you, I should be ev'ry hour
Truly thanking you

Thank you for ev'ry note of music
Thank you for ev'ry song I sing
Thank you for giving me sweet music
Thanks for ev'rything

Thank you for ev'rything you give me
Thank you for ev'rything we share
Thank you for simply being with me
Thanks for being there

Thank you for cheering me with laughter
Thank you for ev'ry smile you bring
Thank you for now and ever after
Thanks for ev'rything

Thank you for waking me this morning
Thank you for giving me today
Thank you, for ev'ry new day dawning
I'll be thanking you

Thank you, for ev'ry new day dawning
I'll be thanking you

Although by the last verse it could be a struggle unless you are a soprano!!

And the verse I always do at school goes
"Thank you for all our friends and teachers,
Thank you for all the fun we've had
Thank you that every day here has so much to make us glad"

There was also a verse about enemies but can't remember the words.

When I go to my regular supply schools (infants) Imdo as much singing with them as I can as a change from all the tedious boring stuff they have to do!

I can clearly remember learning this song and sitting on a long bench in the hall, 54 years ago. I always tell children that and say I hope they will remember me teaching it to them.

I remember singing something like this every morning at infant school before assembly but it was more of a prayer on the lines of :

Thank you for the flowers so sweet
Thank you for the food we eat
Thank you for the joy you bring
Thank you God for everything

Amen

We sang that bohemian but the third line was Thank you for the birds that sing.
I am wondering if there was more than one verse
I left infant school circa 1942 so may be forgiven for hazy memory.

*annsixty*. The third line may well be about birds, my memory tricks me. I only remember the one verse, and we used to gather in the school cloakrooms to sing it before we went into our classrooms for lessons. I lived in London at the time and wonder if different versions of it were used throughout the country.

Lovely memories here - it's amazing how tunes and words stay in our minds after all these years.
gettingonabit - my Gran used to play Pale Hands on the piano and I stood by her side to sing to her friends. Also Less than the Dust, Roses of Picardy, Bless this House ( it was wartime.)
My other Grandad sang local geordie songs to me plus 3 little girls in Blue, Wait for the Wagon etc and a Scottish one, Scots W'hae!
I have the music and words for Lambton Worm and other geordie songs. eg Waters of Tyne, Dance t'thi Daddy, Bobby Shaftoe etc.
What about "..the lion's ett Albert,
And him in his Sunday best too!"

Does anyone remember Phil Harris? Woodman Spare that Tree, Darktown Poker Club etc:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ-f_OIFnrw

I remember lots of those songs, but it is a poem that I particularly remember my Nana reciting to me when I was very little. It was about a doll that got 'lost on the heath one day'. That is all I could recall, and one day googled those words and I found it! It was so emotional and brought back some very happy memories.

Oh , my mother used to recite that!!!

I once had a sweet little doll dears,
The prettiest doll in the World.

But I lost that sweet little doll dear..........

All I can remember. Us ex to make me cry, awfully sentimental.

Thanks for the memory Yummy. What did you google?

Right, written by Charles Kingsley, that's a surprise.

Oh best thread! I am so fed up I 'have' to go cook, but tomorrow, I'm going through these one by one, as it's so 'cheerful'!!! Boho I could kiss you! We had the Ying Tong song on 78. Well....... at least that's what I'm told, being so young, wink, wink! Really hope this thread goes onto tomorrow. I can't believe I've got to go and cooook!!!

My gran always recited every spring.

The Spring has sprung,
The grass is riz
I wonder where the birdies is?

We thought it was very funny

Aw, lovely memories! My grandmother used to sing all the time, and loved 'Little Pal' - I just listened to it on YouTube with a tear in my eye. She also loved to sing 'He's the Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot', another lovely tear jerker!

I'm pleased this thread has come to light again, we could all do with light relief at the moment.

A lot of the songs remembered on this thread have been installed in my sing-outs, which is great because everyone, young and old seem to know the choruses (where did an 18yr old learn the chorus to 'Knees Up Mother Brown' or 'Don't Dilly Dally on the Way').

Please, keep 'em coming

LullyDully....this is it. I just typed in 'the prettiest doll' and it came up.

The Little Doll
~Charles Kingsley

I once had a sweet little doll, dears,
The prettiest doll in the world;
Her cheeks were so red and so white; dears,
And her hair was so charmingly curled.

But I lost my poor little doll, dears,
As I played in the heath one day;
And I cried for her more than a week, dears;
But I never could find where she lay.

I found my poor little doll, dears,
As I played in the heath one day:
Folks say she is terrible changed, dears,
For her paint is all washed away,
And her arm trodden off by the cows, dears,
And her hair not the least bit curled:
Yet for old sakes' sake she is still, dears,
The prettiest doll in the world.

It always used to make me cry too. I find as I get older I get more nostalgic.

Thank you yummy. I still.rather like it, reminds me how much poetry my Mum shared with me.
Humming bird..Little pal, I have that on 78 such a tear jerker beloved when we were children " if someday you should be, on a new Daddy's knee, don't forget about me Little Pal."

A shot in the dark here. I've been trying to find the full version of a not well known music hall song 'It Ain't All Honey and it Ain't All Jam' sung by Vesta Victoria. I searched Mudcat Cafe, Youtube and Google, and can only find three verses. I'm pretty sure there must be another one somewhere. Does anyone on GN who knows music hall songs know where I can find the missing verse?

Spring - next verse:
'They say the bird is on the wing, but that's absurd - the wing is on the bird!'
Is the any more?