Nice to see this thread revived - maybe the thread should have read "What did your Dad (or Mam)used to sing"
My Mum on washing days 1950's when boiling the whites used to sing " Has any body here seen Kelly - Kelly from the Isle of White?"
That was IT, - nothing else - did I miss-out on some subtledy / an in-joke about boiling, and Isle of White, or, was there ever an actual song about "Kelly from the Isle of White