Songs we remembered.

I love singing cliff Richards - We're all going on a summer holiday' when we take the grandchildren away. It's even better when they start singing it back to their parents 😅

My mother's favourite was Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives and she used to play it for my children.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
the cops have wooden legs.
The bulldogs all have rubber teeth
and hens lay soft-boiled eggs.

She wears red feathers and a hula, hula skirt.
A four legged friend.
Sentimental journey.
See the pyramids along the Nile.
How much is that doggy in the window?

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Stanley Holloway`s Oh my, You do Look ill.

😊 it was “My word you do look queer”

Another even stranger one used to be on the radio a lot when I was little, it went : “Bill Jackson was a poor old dub, He joined the Darkdown Poker Club”…

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. Burl Ives I think.

Anything by The Spinners 😃

Stanley Holloway`s Oh my, You do Look ill.

Love letters in the Sand ….Pat Boone

Does anyone remember The Spinners? My parents used to sing the songs and play their record when I was a child. Such lovely songs. 'The Family Of Man', 'The Ink is Black, The Page Is White'

You must’ve been a beautiful baby:
I’m a pink toothbrush you’re a blue toothbrush.

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean was a favourite of my dad's and She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes.

"Oh Dr I'm in trouble", by Peter Sellars, and 'Eat you minastoni/macaroni Joe"

I saw a mouse. Where? There on the stairs…..

A you’re adorable.

The Laughing Policeman

She'll be coming round the mountain ...

My Dad used to sing lots of these to me as well as Maisie Dotes and Dozy Dotes (not sure of spelling) and Hello Mother Hello Father.

Oh That Gorgonzola Cheese!! My grandma & her 2 sisters used to sing it every Christmas after a couple of sherries!!

There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, there’s a hole in my bucket……..a favourite of mine.

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Yammy,Ann Shelton was my Grandads favourite singer!

My dad had been in the Navy and I was taught to sing "Sailor stop your roaming' as well. If I remember right Anne Shelton was a big woman with blonde hair. My mum was always singing but I can't so it must have been torture for anyone listening.

Andy Stewart "Donald where's your trousers'.
Stanley Holloway 'Albert and the Lion".

Don't jump off the roof dad

My dad used to sing When father papered the parlour! Can hear him laughing now!

My small granddaughter when she was 2/3 wanted me to sing Little Donkey and Teddy Bears Picnic to her all the time and could sing all the nursery rhymes I taught her

My grandchildren have all enjoyed (endured?) a bedtime chorus of "Say Nighty Night and Kiss me, Say Nighty Night and tell me you'll miss me..." from me