What did you sing as a kid?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 04:06 PM


Little baby ate a chocolate cake
Went to the bathroom and pooped out a snake
The snake climbed out and bit him on the head
Little baby was dead, dead, dead
They buried him down in a deep dark hole
Winter came and they dug him up for coal
They burned him in the furnace, hot, hot, hot
Buried the ashes and they began to rot
Rain came down, and they began to smell
Little baby went straight to hell
Devils poked him with a big fat stick
A devil came and chopped off his dick
Little baby lay down and cried
And then he finally died, died, died

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 03:35 PM

The Salvation Army free from sin, went to heaven in a corned beef tin. The corned beef tin began to smell, and the Salvation Army went to....Helensburgh Castle stands upon a rock, if you want to pass it you've got to show your.........Cocktail ginger ale half a pint of water, stick it up your... ask no questions tell no lies shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies.

In reality I was standing on a stage in the Cragburn Theatre in Gourock, singing "Put another nickel in" and " A man without a woman" in a childrens talent contest, which if nothing else certainly gives my age away.

Jock

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 03:13 PM

Miss Lucy had a baby
She named it Tiny Tim
She threw it in the bathtub
To see if it would swim
It drank up all the water
It ate up all the soap
It tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn't go down its throat
Miss Lucy called the doctor
The doctor called the nurse
The nurse called the lady
With the alligator purse
A penny for the doctor
A nickel for the nurse
A dime for the lady
With the alligator purse

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: JenEllen
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 02:01 PM

oh Mary3, I remember that one....but my punishment was a bar of 'safety yellow' Dial soap. I still can't stand to even look at the stuff anymore.

We also sang:
'Shaving Creme'
'On Top of Spaghetti'
'Washin' Clothes'

~J

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 01:54 PM

99 bottles of beer on the wall, found a peanut

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: marymarymary
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 01:51 PM


Jack and Jill went up the hill
to fetch a pail of water
stupid Jill forgot her pill
and now they have a daughter!
My mom caught me swinging on the closeline singing this one day, and made me hold a bar of Fels Naphtha in my mouth for ten minutes -- and I didn't even know what "forgot her pill" meant...

Also...
See, see my playmate
Come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my cherry tree
Slide down my rainbow
Into my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends
Forevermore
One, two, three, four....
See, see my enemy
Come out and fight with me
My dolly has the flu
I'll make you cry, boo-hoo
Slide down my razor blade
Into my dungeon door
And we'll be enemies
Forevermore

and, don't forget the immortal Miss Mary Mack, and the Lady with the Alligator Purse -- do those count as songs?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 01:39 PM

(I'm sorry to say, I used to sing all those songs that aren't on the believable list!)

But this just in, from my twins, does that count?

The coach is dead
We barbecue his head
Don't worry about the body
We flush it down the potty
And round and round it goes...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 01:31 PM

A round we repeated endlessly

Politically incorrect... my appologies...

Two Irish men. two irish men, sitting in a ditch One called the other A dirty son of a Peter Murphy, Peter Murphy Sitting in the grass along came a bumble bee and stung him in the Ask me no questions, I'll tell you know lies If you ever get hit with a bucket of .... Be sure to close your Ice cold lemonade, five cents a glass If you don't like it, you can stick it up your Ask me no questions.... keep repeating until you drop from exhaustion...

My nephews made up a great song for Davy Crocket:

Borned on a mountain top in Tennessee Tore my pants on a Christmas tree Patched 'em up with some bubble gum Bear came along and he asked for some Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

Slept on a table top in Joe's Cafe Greasiest joint in the U.S.A. Ordered a griddly and that ain't all Next thing I knew I was in City Hall

I added this verse

Went to see the Mayor just to set him straight I found him swinging on the Pearly Gate Asked his pardon, and he let me go So I wandered down to the Alamo

When I asked my nephews what a griddly was, they said they didn't know... it just sounded good..

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: weepiper
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 01:30 PM

On top of old Smokey
All covered in sand,
I shot my poor teacher
With a red rubber band.

I shot her with glory,
I shot her with pride...
and I cannae mind the last 2 lines...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: marymarymary
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:38 PM


Tah-rah-rah-boom-si-ay
We have no school today
Our teacher passed away
We shot her yesterday
We threw her in the bay
She scared the sharks away
Tah-rah-rah-boom-si-ay
We have no school today

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Melani
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:38 PM


I hate Bosco! It's awful bad for me!

Mommy puts it in my milk to try to poison me!

I fooled Mommy! I put some in her tea,

And now there's no more Mommy to try to poison me!

Americans of appropriate age will remember the original Bosco jingle.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:32 PM

...Miss Lucy sat upon one
And stung her little Ask
Me no more questions, I'll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the boys' room,
Pulling down their Flies
Are in the breadbox
(Last line sung slowly and solemnly...)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:32 PM

I chased a bug around a tree
I'll have his blood
He knows I will
-
then sing it faster & faster til it comes out rude...

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: marymarymary
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:31 PM



Comet -- it makes your mouth turn green!
Comet -- it tastes like gasoline!
Comet -- it makes you vomit!
So get your comet, and vomit, today!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: marymarymary
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:24 PM

This one was a favorite, because we felt like we were really cool, saying words like "ass" (giggle, giggle) and "behind".


Miss Lucy had a steamboat,
The steamboat had a bell.
Miss Lucy went to heaven and
The steamboat went to --

HELL-o, operator.
Give me number 9.
ANd if you disconnect me,
I'll powder your --

BEHIND the 'fridgerator
There was a piece of glass.
Miss Lucy sat upon it
And cut her little --

ASk me no more questions,
I'll tell you no more lies.
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their --

FLIES are in the meadow,
Bees are in the grass.
Miss Lucy sat upon one and
It stung her little ASS!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Trevor
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:20 PM

School dinners, school dinners Concrete chips, concrete chips, Soggy semolina, soggy semolina Toilet quick, I feel sick Too late I done it on me mate

(To the tune of Frere Jacques)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: Gervase
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:16 PM

My mother used to sing the Burl Ives standards when I was a child, and they were the first songs I learned.
I loved "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "When I First Came To This Land" and, to my shame, I also enjoyed "Kumbaya" (though these days it always sounds like a Geordie shepherd losing his rag with a sheepdog to me!).
She also used to sing one to me in dog-Latin, with a refrain along the lines of "Peri-merry dixie domine..." but I can't for the life of me remember the rest of it.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: pattyClink
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:11 PM

Thy point is well taken, however judge ye not too swiftly, soul. Verily the compendium includeth the immortal "Great green gobs" #88.('tis not the childe number but the searchery number)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you sing as a kid?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 12:11 PM

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire
Put the teachers on the top
Put Miss Manning (substitute yr own headteacher) in the middle
And burn the whole lot

Kris

Subject: What did you sing as a kid?
From: GUEST,ScooterHenry
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 11:30 AM

I was looking through the songs in the "Mudcat for kids" area, and I recognized barely anything there. Those songs look like things adults WISH kids would sing ("Robin Cam' to the Wren's Door", "We Are Called the Girl Scouts") rather than anything any natural kids would sing together unless a music teacher or scout leader was making them do it. Real kids like songs about vomit and underpants, not wrens and ponies. So, 'fess up the songs you ACTUALLY sang as a kid, WITH other kids, and maybe we can get some songs there that kids would actually come and look at... then, you can kind of sneak in your wrens and fairies in at the same time, like a vitamin pill hidden in taffy.

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