I remember in primary school learning Flanders and Swan - The Bold Hippopotamus (of all things) and something called, I think, Marianina (Marianina, Marianina, come, oh come, and turn us into foam....... ?or words to that effect.......

This memory of Flanders and Swan dates both them and me.........; now I am old and gray I am so appreciative of having gone to school in both England and Scotland where singing was not considered a waste of time (The Minstrel Boy, anyone.....)

And of course there were the hymns -- religious assembly every day and Church most Sundays surely set those songs in my head. Can still sing Jerusalem without blinking -- all verses!!