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Subject: Need lyrics "today is Monday From: Peggy Date: 30 May 98 - 11:04 AM I'm desperate for the lyrics to very old song "Today is Monday". Can anyone help. Please e-mail me @ hmmngbded@aol.com |
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Subject: ADD: Today Is Monday From: KickyC Date: 30 May 98 - 10:38 PM Just in case anyone else wants the words, too, here they are. TODAY IS MONDAY Today is Monday, Today is Monday, Monday hassenpfeffer All you hungry people, I wish the same to you. Today is Tuesday, Today is Tuesday, Tuesday pizza, Monday hassenpfeffer, All you hungry people, I wish the same to you. Wednesday sooooooop Thursday shish-ka-bob Friday felafel Saturday payday Kicky |
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Subject: ADD: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer Date: 31 May 98 - 02:07 AM Hi - the Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book has a different menu, but basically the same song. No tune, however. Anybody got the tune? -Joe Offer TODAY IS MONDAY |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to Today Is Monday From: Cuilionn Date: 31 May 98 - 02:45 AM Does anyone recall the workaday words to this song? I remember being taught as a wee bairn to sing a version that started something like: Today is Monday Today is Monday Monday: wash-day All you hungry brothers We wish the same to you. I believe there were chores mentioned for each day, but Friday was still kept as "Friday: fish-day". My memory would appreciate any forthcoming assistance! Tapadh leibh, --Cuilionn |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: AndyG Date: 01 Jun 98 - 11:11 AM Here's a link to The Scaffold's lyrics from one of their albums: 2 Day's Monday.
AndyG
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Aug 98 - 10:38 PM Hey Andy I got to the Web site for The Scaffold, but I think they must have removed the lyrics. Can you help find them again? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: AndyG Date: 18 Aug 98 - 10:29 AM Sorry Joe, EMI blitzed the Bonzo-Dog Website shortly after my posting and had ALL the lyrics removed. - grrrr! As the site is maintained by my boss, I don't feel too comfortable entering the lyrics quite so soon after his copyright troubles.
AndyG |
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Subject: Tune Req: Today is Monday From: GUEST Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM Hi, My girlfriend is a pre-school teacher and wants to learn to play the traditional childrens' song Today is Monday. I looked in the database and found several postings of the lyrics but no chords or tabs. If someone could help it would really be appreciated. This is the song that goes: Today is Monday, today is monday. Monday stringbeans. Are you hungry children? Come and eat it up. Or any similar variation. Thanks for your help. Jack |
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Subject: ADD Version 'Today is Monday' From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Oct 04 - 05:02 PM Here's the version from an AMSCO book called Everybody's Favorite Songs (1933) TODAY IS MONDAY (Army song) Today is Monday Today is Monday Monday bread and butter All you hungry soldiers, We wish the same to you. Tuesday - string beans Wednesday - so-oo-p Thursday - roast beef Friday - fish Saturday - pay-day Sunday - Church, ding dong Click to playAnybody know a different tune? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: ADD Version: Today's Monday (The Scaffold) From: GUEST,MCP Date: 27 Oct 04 - 05:45 PM Here's a copy of The Scaffold's lyrics (from Leo's Lyrics). (I still remember the 1st verse from their singing in younger days and can post the tune if you like). Mick TODAY'S MONDAY (as recorded by The Scaffold) Today's Monday, today's Monday, Monday is washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Tuesday, today's Tuesday, Tuesday is soup Monday is washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Wednesday, today's Wednesday, Wednesday is roaster beef. Tuesday is soup Monday is washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Thursday, today's Thursday, Thursday is shephard's pie Wednesday is roaster beef Tuesday is soup Monday is washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Friday, today's Friday, Friday is fish Thursday is shephard's pie Wednesday is roaster beef(etc.) Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Saturday, today's Saturday, Saturday's payday Friday is fish(etc.) (very gently)Today's Sunday, today's Sunday, Sunday is church... (fast)Saturday is payday(etc.) (slow)Is everybody happy? You bet you life we aaaaare! |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: Sorcha Date: 27 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM Thanks Joe. I did check the Midis and didn't find it.
-Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: BB Date: 27 Oct 04 - 06:20 PM Mick's version above is almost the same as the one sung by an old local singer who lives up on Exmoor. Where he got it from I wouldn't know, but he's made it very much his own! Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: Snuffy Date: 28 Oct 04 - 08:43 AM The Scaffold used to stretch the words to fill the tune Tuesday is soo-oop Wednesday is roast-a beef. Friday is fi-ish Sunday is chur -urch |
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Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: GUEST Date: 28 Oct 04 - 10:33 AM Thanks for the midi file, but if someone could post the chords to this song I would really appreciate it. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Barbara Date: 11 Nov 04 - 11:00 AM Sleepless nights trying to recall words to this,how the tune got into my head i dont know!!! My children loved it and i wanted to passit on to grandchildren at Christmas when we are all together acting fools. Thanks |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Kevin Sheils Date: 11 Nov 04 - 11:41 AM Mick's version above is almost the same as the one sung by an old local singer who lives up on Exmoor. Where he got it from I wouldn't know, but he's made it very much his own! Possibly from the Scaffold record, BB? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,dlcAQueen Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:44 PM |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,dlcAQueen@aol.com Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:51 PM Does anyone know the lyrics to the Christmas version of this song? One of the days is Candy Canes, another is Presents, another is Angels. It uses the same tune and is a very cute song to present to parents at the Christmas Pageant. |
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Subject: ADD Version: Today's Monday From: GUEST,roddyscot Date: 08 Dec 04 - 10:29 PM TODAY'S MONDAY Today's Monday, what day's Monday, Monday's washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Tuesday, what day's Tuesday, Tuesday's lentil soup Monday's washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Wednesday, what day's Wednesday, Wednesday is roast-a beef. Tuesday's lentil soup Monday's washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Thursday, what day's Thursday, Thursday is shepherd's pie Wednesday's roast-a beef Tuesday's lentil soup Monday's washing day Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Friday, what day's Friday, Friday's fish & chips, Thursday's shepherd's pie Wednesday is roast-a beef, Tuesday's lentil soup, Monday's washing day, Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! Today's Saturday, what day's Saturday, Saturday's payday Friday is fish & chips, Thursday's shepherd's pie, Wednesday's roast-a beef, Tuesday's lentil soup, Monday's washing day, Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are! (very gently)Today's Sunday, what day's Sunday, Sunday's go to church... (fast)Saturday's payday, Friday's fish & chips, Thursday's shepherd's pie, Wednesday's roast-a beef, Tuesday's lentil soup, Monday's washing day, (slow)Is everybody happy? You bet you life we aaaaare! |
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Subject: ADD: Unser Deitsche Brieder From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Dec 04 - 03:37 AM I've been meaning to post this Pennsylvania Dutch version. -Joe Offer-
source: SONGS ALONG THE MAHANTONGO - Boyer/Buffington/Yoder, 1951 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Guest Date: 14 Mar 05 - 07:20 PM I am most recently out of preschool I'm willing to bet (born in 1987) and I stumbled upon this site while trying to prove the correct lyrics to my mother. The way I learned the song is as follows: Today is Monday, Today is Monday, Monday bread and butter, All you hungry children, Come and eat it up. It continues on in that fashion with the final verse being: Today is Sunday, Today is Sunday, Sunday ice cream, Saturday pizza, Friday fish, Thursday roast beef, Wednesday soup, Tuesday string beans, Monday bread and butter, All you hungry children, Come and eat it up. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,C.H. Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:45 PM In my youth (last millenium) it was "The Workhouse Chant" and there was no Pay-Day ... It was "Gruel" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:53 PM The Bonzos did this song? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:58 PM My grandfather used to sing it this way (I am only including the last verse to save space): Today is Sunday, Today is Sunday, Sunday church; Saturday payday; Friday fish; Thursday roast beef; Wednesday zoo-oop; Tuesday string beans; Monday hasenpfeffer; All you hungry children, I wish the same to you |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Azizi Date: 16 Mar 05 - 04:20 PM I have a vague remembrance of this song from my childhood. However, I can recall no further than "today is Monday, today is Monday; Monday ????..and then down through the days of the week.. I provide presentations in schools & after school groups usually for elementary school age children and my daughter is . A standard part of some of my presentations is to ask children what songs they are familar with. They've never mentioned this song. However, I'll check with my daughter who is a a 2nd grade teacher in the Pittsburgh Public schools to see if she is familiar with it being taught in her school system or if she remembers it from her childhood. IMO, this sounds like the kind of song that music teachers might teach. Because a number of children in inner city these schools are too often hungry, I would think that it would be inappropriate to sing "All you hungry children/Come and eat it up." |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy Date: 16 Mar 05 - 07:04 PM The Bonzos did this song?. No. It was the Scaffold |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 05 - 03:20 AM Today is Monday, Sunday is for drinkin Saturday football Friday shaggin; Thursday thinkin; Wednesday wankin; Tuesday errrgghh; Monday is the finger day ARE WE HAPPY? YA BET YA LIFE WE ARE |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 13 Oct 05 - 08:29 AM Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee, Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee, Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee poo-bum wee! Yay Yay !! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Guest Date: 01 Feb 06 - 06:31 PM I remember this song or a similar one from the "Twice 55 Song Book," used at my public school around 1955. I think it's a I/V7 chord progression with a marching tempo, relying on tonic for most of the piece except for the last line, which goes to the V7 chord the fifth tone of the key going down the scale: V, IV, III, II, I. Then repeat. I haven't tried it yet, but that how I remember it. Does any one remember the "Twice 55 Song Book?" |
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Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: NightWing Date: 02 Feb 06 - 05:54 PM The version I know is rather similar to the anonymous Guest shortly above me: learned from the Hash House Harriers. I had never heard of it having a tune. (Ya learn somethin' new ever' day.) We do it as a chant, call and response form, with each verse having it's characteristic, uh, motion/gesture. Final verse:
[quietly]
BB, |
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Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,sarah Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:36 PM any versions with all the chores for the different days of the week? |
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Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:48 PM DASHING AWAY WITH THE SMOOTHING IRON THE GAS-MAN COMETH THE RUSTY COLD FARMER |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 07 - 11:43 AM I learned bits of this from my father, who was in WWI. All I remember is: Today is Thursday ...Thursday, hassenpfeffer. All German brothers wish they had the same. Friday was fish; Saturday soup. I forget the rest. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,foxyloxy Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:30 PM Best version I've heard, with actions, in reverse order to save time: Today is Sunday - sung v. quietly (X2, bow head, hands in praying position) Sunday we go to the pub. Saturday we go to the match (hands hold imaginary football scarf over head, sway from side to side) Friday - Fish & Chips (mimic taking a chip out of the bag & putting it in your mouth) Thursday - Soooo - p ( mimic spooning soup out of a bowl into mouth) Wednesday - Roast Beef ( make fists & rotate lower arms so wrists & fists turn around each other) Tuesday - ironing ( mimic ironing) Monday is washing day (make fists, move both hands out and down, then back, repeatedly) Before they had washing machines, people used to wash clothes by rubbing them up & down on a ribbed board held in a basin of soapy water. Each time ,after the final day, "Is everybody happy - you bet your life we are !" |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Doug, Guest from Denver Date: 16 Jul 07 - 08:30 AM The Captain Kangaroo kids TV program in the early 60s used to play this song fairly often. It was the string beans, soup, roast beef, fish version. I think the tag they used was "All you hungry people, now eat it up," or at least that's how I remember. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:54 PM My father used to sing the Today is Monday song but I can't remember all the words. The following is what I remember Today is Monday, Today is Monday Monday roast beef Tuesday (I can remember Tuesday's food) Wednesday hassepfeffer Thursday soup Friday fish All you German mothers, I wish the same to you. My father grew up in Wisconsin, the son of a second generation German mother who sent my father to an after regular school German school. He may have learned the song there. He would sing it to my sister and me. Jean |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Yvi Date: 08 Apr 08 - 05:38 PM I know it to be a childrens book by Eric Carle and found the tunes here: www.songsforteaching.com/jimrule/todayismonday.htm |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,eaysea41 Date: 12 Jul 08 - 10:54 AM So much fun to see all these versions to an all but forgotten song from my childhood. Here's ours.
Today is Tuesday is Ironing, today is ironing, Tuesday Ironing(repeat Monday) Everybody happy, well I should say. Today is Wednesday, Wednesday roast beef, Repeat previous Today is Thursday, Thursday Zooooop, Repeat previous Today is Friday, Friday Fish, Repeat previous Today is Saturday, Saturday Payday, Repeat previous Today is Sunday, Sunday Church, Repeat previous. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,pyewackit Date: 24 Aug 08 - 05:55 AM I'd always heard it prefaced with:
We don't know nobody who don't want no nine-inch nails, We knows the king and we knows the queen and we knows the prince of wales, But we don't know nobody who don't want no nine-inch nails!" |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SLUMGULLION SONG From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Aug 08 - 07:29 AM York, Dorothea, and Arthur Boughton. Mud and Stars; An Anthology of World War Songs and Poetry. New York: H. Holt and Co, 1931, page 28: SLUMGULLION SONG Today is Monday, today is Monday, Monday is slumgullion; All you hungry brothers, We wish the same to you. Tuesday, string beans. Wednesday, soup. Thursday, roast beef. Friday, fish. Saturday, pay day. Sunday, church. --From "Songs of the Service for the American Legion." |
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Subject: Lyr Add: WE WISH THE SAME TO YOU From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:12 PM Niles, John Jacob. Singing Soldiers. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927, page 114f: WE WISH THE SAME TO YOU To-day is Monday— To-day is Monday— Monday the bullets— Oh, you dirty Germans, We wish the same to you. To-day is Tuesday— To-day is Tuesday— Monday the bullets— Tuesday the bayonets— Oh, you dirty Germans— We wish the same to you. [similarly:] Wednesday the shrapnel— Thursday the mustard gas— Friday the dressing station— Saturday the hospital— [The remainder of the song cannot be viewed with Google Book Search. [The book also gives the tune.] |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Heather Correll Date: 12 May 09 - 01:03 PM I've hummed this song my whole life and forgotten the words but Jim Dixon's version is the one I remember most except this was how it went Monday- Wash Day Tuesday- String Beans Wednesday- soup Thurs- Roast Beef Friday- Fish Sat- Payday Sun- Church I remember it "all your hungry brothers would wish the same for you" but that never really made sense so..."All you hungry brothers, we wish the same for you" would probably be it... |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,just me. Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:20 PM my grandma does. i haven't heard this song for such a long time. im trying to find the song tune as well. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:42 PM Hi - I posted a link to the tune up at the top of the thread, but here it is again (click) -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Tulah Date: 29 Jan 10 - 03:08 PM Hi, I have went to www.kididdles.org and I found out that this is how the song goes: Today is Monday, today is Monday. Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday. Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Wednesday, today is Wednesday. Wednesday - soooooooooup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Thursday, today is Thursday. Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Friday, today is Friday. Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Saturday, today is Saturday. Saturday - lettuce, Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Sunday, today is Sunday. Sunday - tomatoes, Saturday - lettuce, Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. This song has no need to have a mistake. Signed, Tulah |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Courtney Date: 20 Jul 10 - 04:58 PM I found an old moleskin journal amidst a bunch of old WWII letters from my grandpa to my grandmother. There's no name in it, but I believe it comes from my grandfather's side of the family. It's full of poems and songs circa late 19th and early 20th century. Here are the two versions: Today is Monday to-day is Monday Monday bullets O you lucky devil we wish them all on you WAR Monay-bullets Tuesday-shrapnel Wednesday-bayonets Thursday-front line Friday-gas shell Saturay-hospital Sunday-funeral EATS Monday-broke Tuesday-beans Wednesday-sauer kraut Thursday-soup Friday-fish Saturday-pay day Sunday-church |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,jsb Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:11 AM When I sang it in preschool hasenpfeffer was definitely one of the foods included. I strongly remember string beans and soo-ooup! because they were fun to sing. I don't know chords to share, but I do remember the beats: and-1, 2, 3, 4 and-1, 2, 3, 4 1 - 2, 3-and 4 1 and-2-and, 3, 4 1-and 2-and, 3, 4 |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:06 PM I use to sing this to my children at daycare and we use to use. Monday Bread and butter Tuesday string beans Wednesday soooooup Thursday Roast beef Friday fish Saturday pizza Sunday Chicken |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,James Date: 07 Oct 11 - 12:57 PM My mother taught me this song, which she may have learned in her childhood as a child of the Great Depression. Her verse pattern was: Today is Monday. Today is Monday. Monday wash day, Is everybody happy? Well I should say! And each verse repeated the things from the previous days as in other entries in the thread. Her verses, I believe, were: Monday wash day, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday soup, (or perhaps "shopping" [grocery]) Thursday roast beef, Friday fish, Saturday pay day, and Sunday church. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 12 - 01:57 PM I found this song on a "Toddler Tunes" CD. This version of the song is called "Everybody Happy?" It is done by Sharon, Lois & Bram. The lyrics go like this. Today is Monday. Today is Monday. Monday the washday. Everybody Happy. Well I should say. Today is Tuesday/Tuesday the ironing. Wednesday the gardening Thursday is soup Friday is Payday Saturday is shopping Sunday is resting. Everybody happy? Well I should say. Everybody Happy? Well I should say. |
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