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Thread #108112   Message #3633770
Posted By: PHJim
17-Jun-14 - 12:20 AM
Thread Name: What did your Dad used to sing?
Subject: RE: What did your Dad used to sing?
Some of the songs I recall my dad singing are The Whiffenpoof Song, Saint James Infirmary, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out.
Some of the tunes that he'd sing to us when we were kids were Christopher Robin, Frog He Would A Wooing Go. He'd always finish with:
They paddled of across the lake, Hi Ho said Raleigh,
They paddled off across the lake
And got swallered up by a big black snake
With a ...

That was the end of him and her, Hi Ho said Raleigh,
That was the end of him and her
Now we won't have tadpoles covered in fur
With a...

There's bread and cheese up on the shelf, Hi Ho said Raleigh,
There's bread and cheese up on the shelf
If youwant more sing it for yourself
With a...

There were nonsense syllables in the last line that I can't recall, but I thin each verse ended with, "Hi Ho said Anthony Raleigh."