The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157662   Message #3722696
Posted By: Joe Offer
10-Jul-15 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: song circle songs from childhood
Subject: RE: song circle songs from childhood
Well, "from childhood" means "nursery rhymes" to me. But when I got older, I learned something derived from those nursery rhymes. We called it "She threw it out the window," but Nigel's British version calls it Thrown Through the Window.

And when I was singing Fourth of July Carols at nursing homes last week, I got off on a tangent about the parodies I knew of "Battle Hymn of the Republic":
John Brown's Ford had a puncture in its tire (3x)
And he patched it up with chewing gum




One flea fly flew up the flue and
The other flea fly flew down (4x)




Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured all the teachers - we have broken all the rules
not sure, not sure
And we ain't got no school no more!

Glory, glory, hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
I hit her on the beanie with a rotten tan-ger-ee-nee
And we ain't got no school no more!