What did you sing as a kid?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 09:49 PM

We had a classic thread that started in 1997 and went on for years -

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-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 03:48 AM

AliUk, the version we sang stated "Scab and matter custard ...". Revolting enough?!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Dunc
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 04:12 AM

Sung to the tune of "Pop Goes The Weasel"...
Half a pound for tuppeny Rice
Half a pound for Keilour
That's the way your money goes...
Ten bob to feel her

I had no idea about the refrences to Mandy Rice Davies and Christine Keilour but I liked the idea of being able to "feel her" whoever she was.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: musicmick
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 04:21 AM

My thanks to sian for the castor oil verse, and to adrienne for the davenport version which I had never heard before.

I was at Shriners Hospital for twelve years on a grant from the Phila. Folk Festival. My job was to sing with the kids every week. We made up lots of songs. Here's one.

There is just one odor, there's just one whiff/ It's a great big skunk who is scratch and sniff/ It's like livivg in a sewer/ On a pile of manure/ It's a smell world after all.

It's like my pet cat's kitty litter box/ It's an old gym bag full of dirty socks/ It's the sweat that you get/ When your armpits are wet/ It's a smell world after all.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Crazy Eddie
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 06:33 AM

Scabby Doug's song
Three craws sat upon a wa' Sat upon a wa' Sat upon a wa-a-a' Three craws sat upon a wa' On a cauld an' frosty mornin'. continues

The first crow,
fell & broke his jaw,
fell & broke his jaw,
fell & broke his jaw-aw-aw-aw.
The first crow,
fell & broke his jaw,
On a cold & frosty Morning.

The next crow,
Was cryin' for his maw

Repeat as per previous verse

The third crow, Wasn't there at all

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Marc B
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 07:02 AM

Marijuana Marijuana L.S.D. L.S.D. Richard Nixon makes it All the Hippies take it Why can't we Why can't we

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Alison in Florida
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 11:37 PM

I liked Janis Joplins roller skate song " I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key" and "Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes benz".

My mother is scottish and there was One two three o leary I saw Wallace Beary sitting on his bum-bo -leeree kissing Shirley Temple

From the schoolyard ... great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Whitedog
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 12:25 AM

Bunches of us elementary kids (talking 1950's) sang this song: On top of old Smokey Where Nobody goes, There stood Marilyn Monroe, Without any clothes.

Along came Roy Rogers, Clippity Clop. He pulled down his zipper, And out with a flop.

I don't remember the verses after that, and most of us kids really had no idea of WHAT the song was even (snicker, giggle) implying. Oh, for those days of innocence again! Judy

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 03:20 PM

I was cruising down the highway going ninety miles an hour
When the chain on my bicycle broke.
I was thrown in the ditch while listening to Mitch [this WAS the '50s!]
While my teeth played "Dixie" on the spoke.

Early in the morning, late one night
Two dead boys began to fight.
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other.
Two deaf policemen heard the noise
Came and shot the two dead boys.
If you don't believe this tale
Ask the blind man who saw it all.

Now, what was the one about drinking Lysol? A lot of the stuff had brand references in them.

Linn -- who grew up in Milwaukee in the '50s

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: red flag
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 05:59 PM

When I was a young boy my Mum and Dad taught me 'Nobody's child'. This was the first song that I sang.

I wondering what kind of Parents I have, I think they were trying to tell me something here.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Steven G.
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 06:12 PM

As kid, I learned the classic country tunes, like Gentle on My mind, and Country Roads are examples.

I was also taught some Eastern Canada or "Maritimes" tunes like Out on a Mira, Sonny's Dream, Four Marys.

Wide variety of songs by listening to the radio and watching TV.

Steven

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 07:49 PM

Wonder where the missing lines went? I KNOW I posted them!

Should be:
I was cruising down the highway going ninety miles an hour
When the chain on my bicycle broke.
I was thrown in the ditch while listening to Mitch [this WAS the 1950s!]
While my teeth played "Dixie" on the spoke.

It WAS there -- even the addendum about it being the '50s!

Bat Goddess

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Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 02:53 AM

My old man used to drive Ma nuts trying to teach us kids something that begins-- "Auld Missus Hunt had a huddy punt ---not a huddy punt, but a hunt punt----" and something about a "cuddy" followed that.I'm cutting it short, cuz I don't want wives/girlfriends/hubbies accusing me of getting their nearest and dearest to recite rude tongue-twisters-----

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Adrienne
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 07:25 AM

Two songs I sang as a kid, both to the tune of Turkey in the Straw:

Oh I went around the corner and I went around the block

And I went right in to a doughnut shop

I picked up a doughnut and I wiped off the grease

And handed the lady there a five cent piece.

Well she looked at the nickel and she looked at me

And she said "Kind sir, you can plainly see

There's a hole in the nickel and it goes right through."

Said I,"There's a hole in the doughnut, too!"

Do your ears hang low,

Do they wobble to and fro?

Can you tie em in a knot,

Can you tie em in a bow?

Can you throw em over your shoulder

Like a Continental soldier?

Do your ears...hang...low?

(This song was even funnier when we'd substitute "boobs" or "balls" for "ears".)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Trevor
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 08:41 AM

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Batmobile has lost a wheel on the M1 motorway....

My kids used to like a song they heard in a film (it might have been 'Uncle Buck' I think).. 'When you're standing in a queue and you want to have a pooh, it's diaorrhea, diaorrhea...etc.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 01:27 PM

To the theme from the "Anglia TV2 programmme "Out of Town" (circa 1960s)

"Say what you will
School dinners make you ill,
Davy Crockett died of Shepherd's Pie
All school din-dins
Come from pig-bins
Out of town".

Walrus

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: vindelis
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 01:02 PM

Oh Sabrina, Sabrina
The boys all like Sabrina
Hands up there! Skirts up there!
Sabrina, Sabrina
She's got hair like Ginger Rogers,
She's got a figure like Marilyn MonroeSabrina, Sabrina!
My question is just who was Sabrina? this would have been sung in the playground at Junior School aged about 8 or 9. (Mid 60's).

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Haruo
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 03:20 PM

Ragtime Cowboy Joe
The Desperado
The Alphabet Song
I Don't Want No More of Boy Scout Camp
I Was Born About a Thousand Years Ago (medleyed with Great Historical Bum, and note for us it was definitely a thousand, not ten thousand, the Edenic referent notwithstanding)


Liland

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Sage
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 04:04 PM

The very first song that I remember "performing" at about 3 yrs. old was "Daisy,Daisy, give me your answer do. I'm half crazy over the love of you.......

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: AliUK
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 08:44 PM

a variant of Daisy Daisy that we used to sing in Southfield Junior School playground was...
Daisy, Daisy
give me a tit to chew
I m half crazy
me bollocks are turning blue
It wont be a stylish marriage
cos I can t afford the carriage
but you ll look sweet
on a toilet seat
with me on top of you

of course we had no idea what we were on about at the time.