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Thread #100387 Message #2012030
Posted By: Azizi
30-Mar-07 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Younger Generation (Ira Gershwin)
Subject: RE: Help with an kid's song fragment
I remember this song from junior high school {Atlantic City, New Jersey, early 1960s}.
I recently posted the words to this song on another thread, though I don't remember which one. And if I ever knew who wrote this song, or who recorded it, I can't remember that either. But I have happy memories of singing this song with a select group of choir members at a school concert. Here's the words as I remember them:
If I eat too much jam mother look how young I am. Parents dear, please recall that at one time you were small.
If I'm hard on my clothes and I do not wipe my nose. Parents dear, isn't it true. You were that way too.
Tiddle um Tiddle um Tiddle um tum tum tum tum. We're the younger generation and the future of the nation.
-snip-
There's probably more words to this moderately tempo song.