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Thread #99010   Message #1968897
Posted By: Ferrara
15-Feb-07 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Songs we were made to sing in school...
Subject: RE: Songs we were made to sing in school...
yeah Bee-dubya-ell, there were an awful lot of verses including
Went to Heaven
Got Thrown Out
Went the Other Way
Got put to work
Started Shoveling
Found a Peanut ... and it all starts over

I always reserve LOL for "Laughed Out Loud."

I'm with Jerry Rasmussen, I enjoyed almost all the songs we sang in elementary and middle school. Only trouble was, until I started taking piano lessons I had absolutely no sense of the difference between one pitch and another! So I was the only kid in third grade who had to miss recess while the music teacher tried to teach me the difference between singing higher and singing louder! Well the piano lessons made the difference for some reason.

Some of my favorites that I still remember were
John Peel
White Coral Bells, and Tulip, which was another round
The Vesper Hymn (also a round)
The Quilting Party (I still play and sing that one, also John Peel)
Old Folks at Home

We did a lot of singing in the car and my father taught us the Hole in the Bottom of the Sea, and Oh You Can't Get to Heaven, etc, and various cousins taught us things like "There were three jolly fishermen."

There were three jolly fishermen (2)
Fisher Fisher men-men-men (2)
There were three jolly fishermen
...
The sailed away to Amsterdam
Amster Amster dam-dam-dam
etc

... of course we loved saying "dam-dam-dam" and not getting scolded for it! This is not precisely how it went,it's just to give the idea.