Hello, I'm very new here, so please forgive me if I'm not doing thing's the way they should be done. My mum used to sing me medley's of songs (choruses only) back in the 50's/60's, which she had learnt from her mum, who in turn learnt from her mum (my great grandmother). Great grandmother lived in the East End of London in around the 1850's and the songs she learnt were 'pub songs'/ music hall stuff, which she sung in pubs to scratch a living. One of the songs that come down through the female generations is called 'The Doo Dah Tree'. My great grandmother must have sung it to my grandmother (nan) who passed it onto my mum, who (unknowingly) passed it on to me. The only small clue I can find about the song is there was a Doo Dah tree in the Great Exhibition in the 1800's. I only ever got the chorus from my mum, but now I'm singing Music Hall stuff out myself, I would dearly love to know the verses and maybe a bit more history of the song. The chorus (as I remember it being passed on to me) goes:

'Oh, the Doo Dah tree, the Doo Dah tree,
the funniest tree that you ever did see,
it grew so tall, and it grew so high,
it poked a hole in the blue, blue sky.
Sailor's say if you are round that way
from two 'til half past three,
prehistoric animals go climbing, climbing
up the Doo Dah tree'..................

Has anyone out there any information on this song? I've spent many years trying to find out about it. The song would always be followed by 'The Ogo-Pogo', which I've found the words to on YouTube.