Pancake day

Subject: Pancake day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 02:10 AM

I posted this yesterday but it vanished. I think Mudcat had an outage so I guess it was technical.

Today being pancake day always reminds me so I may have posted this before but here goes

We used to chant a call/response on pancake Tuesday

Pancake Tuesday's a very happy day
If you don't give us a holiday we'll all run away

Where will you run to?

Down Folly Lane

I'll tell the teacher and you'll get the cane

Folly Lane is obviously local to me and ran from Swinton to Eccles, near Manchester. The route many used to take to the church at Eccles when it was the only one for miles but I dunno if that is significant.

I guess other areas used other localities and other songs so, anyone have any more?

And happy (or miserable) ash Wednesday to you all :-)

Subject: RE: Pancake day
From: cnd
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 08:54 AM

When I was at a camp in the mid-2000's there was some sort of nationalities-related food event, and each team representing a country and food had to come up with a song/skit to represent theirs. To this day, the only one that I remember was the group who got Belgium. Sung to the theme of "This is the Final Countdown" they just shouted "We are the Belgian Waffles" over and over again.

Not quite as fun of a diddy, but it's still in my head all these years later.

Subject: RE: Pancake day
From: Raggytash
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 08:57 AM

Was that St Marys RC Church Dave, if so I went to the attached Infant School. It was were I first fell out with the catholic religion due to a sadistic nun there.

Subject: RE: Pancake day
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 10:19 AM

Here are some " Pancake Day songs I posted on another current Mudcat Thread "Any February Songs" thread/mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169274&messages=36

WILTSHIRE SHROVING SONG

https://www.wiltshire-opc.org.uk/Items/Wiltshire/Wiltshire%20-%20Shroving%20Song.pdf
Here is a performance of this song with extra verses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8L27Qw1-zE

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HERE WE COME A-SHROVING

And another shroving song but no performance https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/schools/news/here-we-come-ashroving

Subject: RE: Pancake day
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 04:06 PM

I went to St Mary's in Swinton, Raggy. We had no nuns but I got put off religion elsewhere :-) Aside from that, Yes, I probably learned it there