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Thread #28645   Message #356703
Posted By: Bert
13-Dec-00 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Songs the world forgot
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OOJAH TREE
I got to thinking about the 'Song of the Thrush' thread. I learned that song from my Dad as a kid and have never heard anyone else sing it. Ever, in sixty years.

There must be many more songs that, similarly, are almost forgotten.
Here's the challenge - post any song that is not in DT or in the threads that you haven't heard anyone sing for forty years or more.

Those of you younger than forty can post any song that you learned from someone older than yourself but that you've never heard anyone else sing.

Here's a starter...

The Oojah Tree

The Oojah Tree, The Oojah Tree
Finest tree you ever did see
last July it grew so high
it poked a hole in the bright blue sky
and sailors say when around that way
from two 'till half past three
That on it's branches big and strong
prehistoric animals go shuffling along
and they keep on climbing, climbing, climbing
Up the Oojah Tree.