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What did we sing in school?

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Lilygran Thu 21-May-15 10:42:48

The Minstrel Boy. Early One Morning. Lots of sea shanties, many very un PC. We had a book of folk songs but I don't remember the title. D'ye ken John Peel. Over the sea to Skye. Thank you, JessM.

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AshTree Thu 21-May-15 10:37:27

Oh there was a little drummer and he loved a one-eyed cook....with her one eye on the pot and the other up the chimney, with a bow wow wow......
The oak and the ash (and the bonny ivy tree)
Cockles and Muscles (alive alive oh!)

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Ana Thu 21-May-15 10:32:05

On Yonder Hill there stands a Maiden
(Oh, no John, no John, no John no!)

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JessM Thu 21-May-15 10:26:53

When I was in primary school in the 1950s we used to do singing in the hall every week. Most teachers in those days seemed to be competent pianists. I've been trying to remember the songs that we sang and can only come up with:
Greensleeves
Green Grow the Rushes Oh
and
A frog he would a wooing gob(Hey-ho said Roly).
But there were lots more. And didn't they come out of a standard collection that was used in schools across the land?

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