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30 May 98 - 11:04 AM (#29692) Subject: Need lyrics "today is Monday From: Peggy 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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30 May 98 - 10:38 PM (#29730) Subject: ADD: Today Is Monday From: KickyC 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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31 May 98 - 02:07 AM (#29734) Subject: ADD: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer 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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31 May 98 - 02:45 AM (#29739) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to Today Is Monday From: Cuilionn 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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01 Jun 98 - 11:11 AM (#29775) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: AndyG Here's a link to The Scaffold's lyrics from one of their albums: 2 Day's Monday.
AndyG
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13 Aug 98 - 10:38 PM (#34808) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: Joe Offer 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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18 Aug 98 - 10:29 AM (#35225) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to From: AndyG 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.
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27 Oct 04 - 12:19 PM (#1308746) Subject: Tune Req: Today is Monday From: GUEST 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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27 Oct 04 - 05:02 PM (#1308980) Subject: ADD Version 'Today is Monday' From: Joe Offer 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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27 Oct 04 - 05:45 PM (#1309006) Subject: ADD Version: Today's Monday (The Scaffold) From: GUEST,MCP 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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27 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM (#1309020) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: Sorcha Thanks Joe. I did check the Midis and didn't find it.
-Joe Offer- |
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27 Oct 04 - 06:20 PM (#1309032) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: BB 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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28 Oct 04 - 08:43 AM (#1309484) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: Snuffy 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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28 Oct 04 - 10:33 AM (#1309548) Subject: RE: Need lyrics to 'Today is Monday' From: GUEST Thanks for the midi file, but if someone could post the chords to this song I would really appreciate it. |
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11 Nov 04 - 11:00 AM (#1323332) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Barbara 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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11 Nov 04 - 11:41 AM (#1323356) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Kevin Sheils 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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30 Nov 04 - 01:44 PM (#1343455) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,dlcAQueen |
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30 Nov 04 - 01:51 PM (#1343471) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,dlcAQueen@aol.com 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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08 Dec 04 - 10:29 PM (#1351558) Subject: ADD Version: Today's Monday From: GUEST,roddyscot 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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09 Dec 04 - 03:37 AM (#1351726) Subject: ADD: Unser Deitsche Brieder From: Joe Offer 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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14 Mar 05 - 07:20 PM (#1434817) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Guest 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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15 Mar 05 - 10:45 PM (#1435749) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,C.H. In my youth (last millenium) it was "The Workhouse Chant" and there was no Pay-Day ... It was "Gruel" |
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16 Mar 05 - 01:53 PM (#1436228) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage The Bonzos did this song? |
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16 Mar 05 - 01:58 PM (#1436232) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage 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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16 Mar 05 - 04:20 PM (#1436337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Azizi 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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16 Mar 05 - 07:04 PM (#1436455) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy The Bonzos did this song?. No. It was the Scaffold |
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11 Apr 05 - 03:20 AM (#1457770) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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13 Oct 05 - 08:29 AM (#1582163) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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01 Feb 06 - 06:31 PM (#1659566) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Guest 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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02 Feb 06 - 05:54 PM (#1660469) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: NightWing 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:
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22 Feb 06 - 07:36 PM (#1676301) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,sarah any versions with all the chores for the different days of the week? |
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22 Feb 06 - 07:48 PM (#1676312) Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy DASHING AWAY WITH THE SMOOTHING IRON THE GAS-MAN COMETH THE RUSTY COLD FARMER |
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03 Mar 07 - 11:43 AM (#1984999) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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21 Jun 07 - 05:30 PM (#2083436) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,foxyloxy 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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16 Jul 07 - 08:30 AM (#2104101) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Doug, Guest from Denver 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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01 Apr 08 - 12:54 PM (#2303408) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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08 Apr 08 - 05:38 PM (#2310562) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Yvi 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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12 Jul 08 - 10:54 AM (#2387313) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,eaysea41 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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24 Aug 08 - 05:55 AM (#2421085) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,pyewackit 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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25 Aug 08 - 07:29 AM (#2421657) Subject: Lyr Add: SLUMGULLION SONG From: Jim Dixon 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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26 Aug 08 - 10:12 PM (#2423002) Subject: Lyr Add: WE WISH THE SAME TO YOU From: Jim Dixon 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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12 May 09 - 01:03 PM (#2630017) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Heather Correll 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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04 Jan 10 - 09:20 PM (#2803584) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,just me. 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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04 Jan 10 - 09:42 PM (#2803600) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer 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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29 Jan 10 - 03:08 PM (#2824834) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Tulah 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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20 Jul 10 - 04:58 PM (#2948557) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Courtney 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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31 Dec 10 - 12:11 AM (#3064247) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,jsb 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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10 Feb 11 - 01:06 PM (#3092562) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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07 Oct 11 - 12:57 PM (#3235413) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,James 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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27 Feb 12 - 01:57 PM (#3314149) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST 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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19 Jun 12 - 01:38 AM (#3365316) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Kay My late husband used to sing this. He learned it in kindergarten in Seattle around 1920. I'm pretty sure each day was a plain food - no pizza, spaghetti, or ice cream, and I think they were: - Monday, string beans (or hasenpfeffer?); - Tuesday, hasenpfeffer (or string beans?); - Wednesday, zoo-oop; - Thursday, roast beef; - Friday fi-ish; (I don't remember Saturday or Sunday being included); But all the verses ended: - All you German mothers, we wish the same to you! |
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19 Jun 12 - 02:14 AM (#3365324) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday - Chords From: GUEST,Kay In the key of C, the chords are C and G. (Play the C chord all the way through until you get to "I" and then play the G chord on "wish." Line 1: Verse Line 2: Chord on 2nd & 4th beat Today is | Mon-day - Today is | (continue) C - C - | C C | (repeat same chords) All you German | mothers, - I | wish the same to | you. C - C - | C C - | G - G - | C Because of the difference between the font in the text entering form and the font that is displayed on the web page, I can't make the chords line up with the words, so I hope this makes sense. The "|" character indicates the end of each 4 beat phrase. (If you copy it to a plain font, it should be lined up.) |
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18 Nov 12 - 10:20 AM (#3438172) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,guest I found the music in a small old Legion Airs music book. Songs of "Over There and "Over Here" in World Wars 1 and 2. Compiled by Frank E. Peat and edited by Lee Orean Smith. Copyright 1932 and 1949. Leo Feist Inc. 799 Seventh Avenue, New York 19, N.Y. There are a lot of different texts for the same music. I learned it with each day of the week a different housekeeping chore, and rest on Sunday. |
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25 Mar 16 - 08:42 PM (#3781302) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST |
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26 Jan 18 - 12:00 PM (#3901958) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Linda Nolan Today is Monday, today is Monday Monday washday-everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday Tuesday stringbeans, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Wednesday, today is Wednesday, Wednesday zooop! Everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Thursday, today is Thursday, Thursday roast beef, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Friday, today is Friday, Friday fish! Everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Saturday, today is Saturday, Saturday payday, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Sunday, today is Sunday, Sunday Church everybody happy? Well I should say! The trick is that after you sing each new day,you go back and sing all the previous ones So it goes Sunday church, Saturday payday Friday fish! Thursday roast beef, Wednesday zooop! Tuesday stringbeans Monday washday Everybody happy? Well I should say. I came from a family of five and we sang this every night before dinner. |
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27 Jan 18 - 05:21 AM (#3902113) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer Here are a couple recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7V__eJHuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41K5FBahNA Is this the usual melody? -Joe- |
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10 Jun 19 - 01:49 AM (#3995785) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Scot Cannon As I recall at Boy Scout meetings in Webster Groves, MO in the mid sixties we sang: Today is Monday, Today is Monday Monday Hassenpfeffer Is everybody happy Well I should say Tuesday Chicken Wednesday Hamburgers Thursday Pork Chops Friday Fish Saturday Shish Kabob Sunday Roast Beef |
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27 Jul 23 - 02:48 PM (#4177777) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e This bit of nonsense was a favorite camp-song with the soldier, during the Great War. It illustrates the "I Hear America Singing", No 1. Twice 55 Community Songs. The Brown Book. by C.C. Birchard & Co. Boston, 1917 See lyrics (with music) here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Twice_55_Community_Songs/44kWAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22today+is+monday%22+song&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover |
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27 Jul 23 - 03:22 PM (#4177780) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e 25. TODAY IS MONDAY (G 2/4) Agricultural Extension. State service Bulletin. College of Agriculture, University Of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 1924. "Boys and Girls Cub Work" Song Suggestions for Community and Club Meetings. See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bulletin/GeJHAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22today+is+monday%22+%22today+is+tuesday%22&pg=RA32-PA12&printsec=frontcover |
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27 Jul 23 - 03:56 PM (#4177784) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e TODAY IS MONDAY Transcribed from the LP Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children's Songs (1978). Listen online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zacq6hU-ZM&t=2649s |
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27 Jul 23 - 06:56 PM (#4177795) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Soup Song Parody The Wolverine, July 4, 1918. pg 4. See here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071756899&seq=18 |
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27 Jul 23 - 07:01 PM (#4177796) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Soup Song, All You Little Rookies We Wish the Same to You; Catalogue of Copyright Entries, 1918. Note that this is an adaptation and arrangement. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_Title_entries_of_Books_and/Q9UiAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22soup+song%22&pg=PA1309&printsec=frontcover |
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27 Jul 23 - 07:38 PM (#4177801) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e GENERAL "PEP" SONGS Pg 427, Phunology, 1923. Parenthetical comments and descriptions are in the original. See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/PHUNOLOGY/ZwoXy8j__CwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22to-day+is+monday+to-day+is+monday%22&pg=RA1-PA427&printsec=frontcover |
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27 Jul 23 - 08:29 PM (#4177803) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e The Old Mother Hippletoe LP recording of "Today is Monday" was collected by John A. Lomax from an unidentified group of children in Brandon, Mississippi, in 1937. Library of Congress AFS 886 B1. Audio, PDF of the tune, and transcription of the words. Listen & see here: https://kodaly.hnu.edu/song.cfm?id=1287 |
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28 Jul 23 - 05:39 PM (#4177892) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Today is Monday Transcribed from 101 Gang Songs [double LP] by Bing Crosby (1961). Listen online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAwEK81dks&t=856s |
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28 Jul 23 - 05:53 PM (#4177894) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e TODAY IS MONDAY Pg 92, IOCA Song-Fest (1938). See online here: https://archive.org/details/1938iocasongfest/page/92/mode/1up |
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28 Jul 23 - 06:20 PM (#4177902) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e TODAY IS MONDAY June 1923, Camp Cavell and Girl Reserve Club Songs, Song #79, pg 28, Detroit, Michigan, published by the girl reserve of the YWCA. |
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28 Jul 23 - 06:30 PM (#4177908) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e MONDAY IS A WANKING DAY From Flying Booger's 1996 edition of Hash Hymns. This version of the song is in Flying Booger's later Half-Mind Hymnals |
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28 Jul 23 - 06:31 PM (#4177909) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e The Days of the Week March 14, 1999. Penguins RFC Song Book. |
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28 Jul 23 - 07:00 PM (#4177917) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Rugby Days of the Week Song Posted 14 May 2013 to USC Digital Folklore Archives, by Kelly Covey. See here: http://folklore.usc.edu/rugby-days-of-the-week-song/ |
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02 Aug 23 - 02:45 AM (#4178263) Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: Bugsy My Dad,(1915-89) used to sing. Sunday's Chu-urch Saturday's Payday Friday's Fish 'n' Chip Thurdsay's Shepherd's Pie Wendnesday's a Roat 'o' Beef Tuesday's so-op Monday's a Washin' Day Is ev'rybody 'appy? YOU BET YER LIFE WE ARE! Cheers Bugsy |