What did your Dad used to sing?

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: oldhippie
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 09:36 PM

Dad didn't sing but he played the accordion.

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 09:29 PM

On Wisconsin
The Notre Dame Victory March
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
The Caissons Go Rolling Along
The Air Corps Song
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra

and a host of others. Whatever took his fancy.

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 09:22 PM

Some Yale glee material. One he spontaneously came up with only once, on a rare family vacation:

"The Pope he leads a jolly life!
He's free from every care and strife.
He drinks the best of Rhenish wine!
I would the Popes gay life were mine.


The Sultan better pleases me.
He's free from care as he can be.
With fifty damsels for a wife!
Oh, I would have the Sultan's life!!

Oh when my sweetie kisses me,
\'Tis then the Sultan I would be.
But when good Rhenish wine I tope,
Why then I'd rather be the Pope!

He also taught me Buddy Bolden, the Sheik of Araby, Five Foot Two, and a number of other raggy piano tunes.


A

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 09:01 PM

One verse of "When Father painted the parlor (you couldn't see pa for paint)" and

There is a happy land, far far away
Where the little piggies run, three times a day
Oh, you ought to see them run
When they see the farmer come
Cutting slices off their bum
Three times a day.

and one small piece of recitation: a vulgar parody of George Sim's "It Was Christmas Day in the Workhouse".

Norman Francis Bartlett, born Cardiff 26 January 1912, died Worthing 8 December 1985.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:49 PM

My dad only sang two songs to me --and I still sing them today. One was "the Mermaid"; t'other was (I found later) D.J.O'Malley's "The Tenderfoot"

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: vectis
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:45 PM

Too many to list he left me 5 tapes full of songs he'd recorded at home.

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:22 PM

Bob's Got a Swing Band in Heaven
The Holy City
Danny Boy
Filipino Baby
Rainbow at Midnight
Day-O/Banana Boat Song
Jamaica Farewell

Others of the same ilk.

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:15 PM

"Two and two are four
four and four are eight
eight and eight are sixteen
sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two". I have a super-early memory of this being sung over my crib or bed.

Also, a song with many parts that I've never found anyone else to sing with:

"crank chisel, chisel,
crank chisel, chisel"

with

"whoop, whoop WHOOP,
whoop, whoop WHOOP"

and various other parts, sung together.

Dani

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Brendy
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:11 PM

'McAlpine's Fusileers', and 'The Rose Of Arranmore'.

But my father also had a great wealth of monologues, and at Christmas Parties and the like, he could always be counted on to give a rendition of some Robert Servis: 'Dangerous Dan McGrew', and 'The Cremation of Sam McGee', especially.

A lovely man.

B.

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:07 PM

TIME for breakfast! TIME for breakfast! Time for breakfast! time for breakfast! time for break-fast!
Tune: Halleluia chorus


To the tune of one of Bach's organ fugues (not sure which one, but the tune beings "do mi sol, re fa la":
Being have (to rhyme with "wave")
Being have
Oh, everyone is being have!

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 07:04 PM

Hymns !! He was head choir boy at the Birmingham Parish church

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: LesB
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 06:56 PM

Nothing!

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 06:55 PM

The Rose of Tralee

Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: GUEST,wordy
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 06:48 PM

"Marta, rambling rose of the wildwood"
"Buddy, can you spare a dime"

Subject: What did your Dad used to sing?
From: Bert
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 06:30 PM

I'll start with one my Dad sang...

Let's sing the songs the Father used to sing
While we're at a party lets be gay and hearty
come Lads and Lasses
Lift up your glasses
join in the chorus, let it go
So, let's sing the songs that Father used to sing
years and years ago.