Lyr Req: Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Mar 23 - 01:47 PM

We sang this in elementary school. Long Beach CA, 1940's. Some other songs from there were, "The Milkman's Horse, "John Jacob Jingle Heimer schmidt, Volga Boatman or maybe Mother Volga.?"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor
From: GUEST,Bob Lose 8/23/2020
Date: 23 Aug 20 - 03:26 AM

I learned the song in grammar school in Pittsburgh (or Erie) PA in the 1940's. I still remember and often sing (lightly to myself)the first verse and the chorus as others have described in this thread.

Mistress Moore lives on the shore,
She has daughters three and four,
Eldest one is twenty four,
Married to a sailor.

Chorus
Baloo, baloo, baloo bee,
etc.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 05:33 PM

I learned this song too in elementary school in Massachusetts in the fifties. It was printed in our music book, but I don't remember the name of the book.

Subject: RE: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 11:17 PM

This song was going through my head; only 3 hits on Gooogle for it. We used to sing this in grammar school in LA back in the 40's - 50's. Miss Juanita Teager, the visiting music teacher brought it into the class along with "The Ash Grove."

Subject: RE: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:40 PM

To the thread starter: Where did you learn it? When?

Subject: RE: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: Peace
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:31 PM

http://www.emusic.com/album/Studio-Group-Children-s-Songs-Of-Other-Lands-MP3-Download/11016697.html

Released by "Studio Group" in 2006.

Subject: RE: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 08:23 PM

Still nobody who can say more on this?

Subject: RE: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 08:38 PM

refresh - there should be more information on this song.
Anybody??

-Joe-

Subject: ADD: Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 04:03 AM

Amazon calls it Mistress Moore Married to a Sailor, and it's available for download (for a fee). Tune sounds very close to "Bobby Shaftoe." Here are the lyrics, as I hear them - same as above, but with a nonsense chorus.
-Joe-

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MISTRESS MOORE MARRIED TO A SAILOR

Mistress Moore lives on the shore
She has daughters three and four
Eldest one is twenty-four
Married to a sailor

CHORUS
Baloo, Baloo, Baloo, Bee,
Baloo, Baloo, Baloo, Bee,
Baloo, Baloo, Baloo, Bee,
Married to a sailor

When the sailor comes ashore
How they rattle
How they roar
Happy then is Mistress Moore
Married to a sailor
CHORUS

Mistress Moore lives on the shore
She has daughters three and four
Eldest one is twenty-four
Married to a sailor

CHORUS

Artist: Studio Group
Album title: Children's Songs of Other Lands
Label: Crown Records

Subject: RE: Mistress Moore
From: MartinRyan
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:41 AM

Sounds a bit like "Bobby Shafto"? Same air?

Regards

Subject: lyr req: Mistress Moore
From: GUEST,kjl
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 04:29 PM

I'm looking for a song I learned as a small child in school. The lyrics are:

Mistress Moore lives on the shore
She has daughters three and four
Eldest one is twenty-four
Married to a sailor

When the sailors come ashore
How they rattle
How they roar
Happy then is Mistress Moore
Married to a sailor

I think there is more to it than this, but that's all I remember. I have never been able to find out anything about this song--or find the song anywhere!