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>>Was anyone else as a child exposed to the parody: "Uncles and aunts, Itty bitty children lost their pants"?

Exposed... lost their pants... very funny!

We had three "choruses" at Boy Scout camp - it sounded cool to get them all going at once:

CHO1:
Husbands and Wives
Little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down

CHO2:
Uncles and Aunts,
Little children lost their pants
It was sad when the great ship went down

CHO3:
The sea, The sea
The sea, The sea
It was sad when the great ship went down

In the first two choruses the notes usually go "up", but if you get the baritones to sing chorus three and make the notes go down, it sounds harmonious.

Agreed, it's really too sad to sing rollicking, but then so are many children's songs (Ring around the rosie, London Bridge, Rock-A-Bye Baby, etc.) if you really listen to them.

- Al