Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: Bugsy Date: 02 Aug 23 - 02:45 AM My Dad,(1915-89) used to sing. Sunday's Chu-urch Saturday's Payday Friday's Fish 'n' Chip Thurdsay's Shepherd's Pie Wendnesday's a Roat 'o' Beef Tuesday's so-op Monday's a Washin' Day Is ev'rybody 'appy? YOU BET YER LIFE WE ARE! Cheers Bugsy |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 07:00 PM Rugby Days of the Week Song Posted 14 May 2013 to USC Digital Folklore Archives, by Kelly Covey. See here: http://folklore.usc.edu/rugby-days-of-the-week-song/ |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 06:31 PM The Days of the Week March 14, 1999. Penguins RFC Song Book. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 06:30 PM MONDAY IS A WANKING DAY From Flying Booger's 1996 edition of Hash Hymns. This version of the song is in Flying Booger's later Half-Mind Hymnals |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 06:20 PM TODAY IS MONDAY June 1923, Camp Cavell and Girl Reserve Club Songs, Song #79, pg 28, Detroit, Michigan, published by the girl reserve of the YWCA. |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 05:53 PM TODAY IS MONDAY Pg 92, IOCA Song-Fest (1938). See online here: https://archive.org/details/1938iocasongfest/page/92/mode/1up |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 28 Jul 23 - 05:39 PM Today is Monday Transcribed from 101 Gang Songs [double LP] by Bing Crosby (1961). Listen online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veAwEK81dks&t=856s |
Subject: RE: Origins: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 08:29 PM The Old Mother Hippletoe LP recording of "Today is Monday" was collected by John A. Lomax from an unidentified group of children in Brandon, Mississippi, in 1937. Library of Congress AFS 886 B1. Audio, PDF of the tune, and transcription of the words. Listen & see here: https://kodaly.hnu.edu/song.cfm?id=1287 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 07:38 PM GENERAL "PEP" SONGS Pg 427, Phunology, 1923. Parenthetical comments and descriptions are in the original. See online here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/PHUNOLOGY/ZwoXy8j__CwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22to-day+is+monday+to-day+is+monday%22&pg=RA1-PA427&printsec=frontcover |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 07:01 PM Soup Song, All You Little Rookies We Wish the Same to You; Catalogue of Copyright Entries, 1918. Note that this is an adaptation and arrangement. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_Title_entries_of_Books_and/Q9UiAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22soup+song%22&pg=PA1309&printsec=frontcover |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 06:56 PM Soup Song Parody The Wolverine, July 4, 1918. pg 4. See here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071756899&seq=18 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 03:56 PM TODAY IS MONDAY Transcribed from the LP Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and Urban Children's Songs (1978). Listen online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zacq6hU-ZM&t=2649s |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 03:22 PM 25. TODAY IS MONDAY (G 2/4) Agricultural Extension. State service Bulletin. College of Agriculture, University Of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 1924. "Boys and Girls Cub Work" Song Suggestions for Community and Club Meetings. See here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bulletin/GeJHAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22today+is+monday%22+%22today+is+tuesday%22&pg=RA32-PA12&printsec=frontcover |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: and e Date: 27 Jul 23 - 02:48 PM This bit of nonsense was a favorite camp-song with the soldier, during the Great War. It illustrates the "I Hear America Singing", No 1. Twice 55 Community Songs. The Brown Book. by C.C. Birchard & Co. Boston, 1917 See lyrics (with music) here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Twice_55_Community_Songs/44kWAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22today+is+monday%22+song&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Scot Cannon Date: 10 Jun 19 - 01:49 AM As I recall at Boy Scout meetings in Webster Groves, MO in the mid sixties we sang: Today is Monday, Today is Monday Monday Hassenpfeffer Is everybody happy Well I should say Tuesday Chicken Wednesday Hamburgers Thursday Pork Chops Friday Fish Saturday Shish Kabob Sunday Roast Beef |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jan 18 - 05:21 AM Here are a couple recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7V__eJHuo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41K5FBahNA Is this the usual melody? -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Linda Nolan Date: 26 Jan 18 - 12:00 PM Today is Monday, today is Monday Monday washday-everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday Tuesday stringbeans, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Wednesday, today is Wednesday, Wednesday zooop! Everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Thursday, today is Thursday, Thursday roast beef, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Friday, today is Friday, Friday fish! Everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Saturday, today is Saturday, Saturday payday, everybody happy? Well I should say! Today is Sunday, today is Sunday, Sunday Church everybody happy? Well I should say! The trick is that after you sing each new day,you go back and sing all the previous ones So it goes Sunday church, Saturday payday Friday fish! Thursday roast beef, Wednesday zooop! Tuesday stringbeans Monday washday Everybody happy? Well I should say. I came from a family of five and we sang this every night before dinner. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 25 Mar 16 - 08:42 PM |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,guest Date: 18 Nov 12 - 10:20 AM I found the music in a small old Legion Airs music book. Songs of "Over There and "Over Here" in World Wars 1 and 2. Compiled by Frank E. Peat and edited by Lee Orean Smith. Copyright 1932 and 1949. Leo Feist Inc. 799 Seventh Avenue, New York 19, N.Y. There are a lot of different texts for the same music. I learned it with each day of the week a different housekeeping chore, and rest on Sunday. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday - Chords From: GUEST,Kay Date: 19 Jun 12 - 02:14 AM In the key of C, the chords are C and G. (Play the C chord all the way through until you get to "I" and then play the G chord on "wish." Line 1: Verse Line 2: Chord on 2nd & 4th beat Today is | Mon-day - Today is | (continue) C - C - | C C | (repeat same chords) All you German | mothers, - I | wish the same to | you. C - C - | C C - | G - G - | C Because of the difference between the font in the text entering form and the font that is displayed on the web page, I can't make the chords line up with the words, so I hope this makes sense. The "|" character indicates the end of each 4 beat phrase. (If you copy it to a plain font, it should be lined up.) |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Kay Date: 19 Jun 12 - 01:38 AM My late husband used to sing this. He learned it in kindergarten in Seattle around 1920. I'm pretty sure each day was a plain food - no pizza, spaghetti, or ice cream, and I think they were: - Monday, string beans (or hasenpfeffer?); - Tuesday, hasenpfeffer (or string beans?); - Wednesday, zoo-oop; - Thursday, roast beef; - Friday fi-ish; (I don't remember Saturday or Sunday being included); But all the verses ended: - All you German mothers, we wish the same to you! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 27 Feb 12 - 01:57 PM I found this song on a "Toddler Tunes" CD. This version of the song is called "Everybody Happy?" It is done by Sharon, Lois & Bram. The lyrics go like this. Today is Monday. Today is Monday. Monday the washday. Everybody Happy. Well I should say. Today is Tuesday/Tuesday the ironing. Wednesday the gardening Thursday is soup Friday is Payday Saturday is shopping Sunday is resting. Everybody happy? Well I should say. Everybody Happy? Well I should say. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,James Date: 07 Oct 11 - 12:57 PM My mother taught me this song, which she may have learned in her childhood as a child of the Great Depression. Her verse pattern was: Today is Monday. Today is Monday. Monday wash day, Is everybody happy? Well I should say! And each verse repeated the things from the previous days as in other entries in the thread. Her verses, I believe, were: Monday wash day, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday soup, (or perhaps "shopping" [grocery]) Thursday roast beef, Friday fish, Saturday pay day, and Sunday church. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:06 PM I use to sing this to my children at daycare and we use to use. Monday Bread and butter Tuesday string beans Wednesday soooooup Thursday Roast beef Friday fish Saturday pizza Sunday Chicken |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,jsb Date: 31 Dec 10 - 12:11 AM When I sang it in preschool hasenpfeffer was definitely one of the foods included. I strongly remember string beans and soo-ooup! because they were fun to sing. I don't know chords to share, but I do remember the beats: and-1, 2, 3, 4 and-1, 2, 3, 4 1 - 2, 3-and 4 1 and-2-and, 3, 4 1-and 2-and, 3, 4 |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Courtney Date: 20 Jul 10 - 04:58 PM I found an old moleskin journal amidst a bunch of old WWII letters from my grandpa to my grandmother. There's no name in it, but I believe it comes from my grandfather's side of the family. It's full of poems and songs circa late 19th and early 20th century. Here are the two versions: Today is Monday to-day is Monday Monday bullets O you lucky devil we wish them all on you WAR Monay-bullets Tuesday-shrapnel Wednesday-bayonets Thursday-front line Friday-gas shell Saturay-hospital Sunday-funeral EATS Monday-broke Tuesday-beans Wednesday-sauer kraut Thursday-soup Friday-fish Saturday-pay day Sunday-church |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Tulah Date: 29 Jan 10 - 03:08 PM Hi, I have went to www.kididdles.org and I found out that this is how the song goes: Today is Monday, today is Monday. Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday. Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Wednesday, today is Wednesday. Wednesday - soooooooooup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Thursday, today is Thursday. Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Friday, today is Friday. Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Saturday, today is Saturday. Saturday - lettuce, Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. Today is Sunday, today is Sunday. Sunday - tomatoes, Saturday - lettuce, Friday - carrots, Thursday - roast beef, Wednesday - soup, Tuesday - spaghetti, Monday - string beans, All your hungry children, come and eat it up. This song has no need to have a mistake. Signed, Tulah |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:42 PM Hi - I posted a link to the tune up at the top of the thread, but here it is again (click) -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,just me. Date: 04 Jan 10 - 09:20 PM my grandma does. i haven't heard this song for such a long time. im trying to find the song tune as well. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Heather Correll Date: 12 May 09 - 01:03 PM I've hummed this song my whole life and forgotten the words but Jim Dixon's version is the one I remember most except this was how it went Monday- Wash Day Tuesday- String Beans Wednesday- soup Thurs- Roast Beef Friday- Fish Sat- Payday Sun- Church I remember it "all your hungry brothers would wish the same for you" but that never really made sense so..."All you hungry brothers, we wish the same for you" would probably be it... |
Subject: Lyr Add: WE WISH THE SAME TO YOU From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Aug 08 - 10:12 PM Niles, John Jacob. Singing Soldiers. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927, page 114f: WE WISH THE SAME TO YOU To-day is Monday— To-day is Monday— Monday the bullets— Oh, you dirty Germans, We wish the same to you. To-day is Tuesday— To-day is Tuesday— Monday the bullets— Tuesday the bayonets— Oh, you dirty Germans— We wish the same to you. [similarly:] Wednesday the shrapnel— Thursday the mustard gas— Friday the dressing station— Saturday the hospital— [The remainder of the song cannot be viewed with Google Book Search. [The book also gives the tune.] |
Subject: Lyr Add: SLUMGULLION SONG From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Aug 08 - 07:29 AM York, Dorothea, and Arthur Boughton. Mud and Stars; An Anthology of World War Songs and Poetry. New York: H. Holt and Co, 1931, page 28: SLUMGULLION SONG Today is Monday, today is Monday, Monday is slumgullion; All you hungry brothers, We wish the same to you. Tuesday, string beans. Wednesday, soup. Thursday, roast beef. Friday, fish. Saturday, pay day. Sunday, church. --From "Songs of the Service for the American Legion." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,pyewackit Date: 24 Aug 08 - 05:55 AM I'd always heard it prefaced with:
We don't know nobody who don't want no nine-inch nails, We knows the king and we knows the queen and we knows the prince of wales, But we don't know nobody who don't want no nine-inch nails!" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,eaysea41 Date: 12 Jul 08 - 10:54 AM So much fun to see all these versions to an all but forgotten song from my childhood. Here's ours.
Today is Tuesday is Ironing, today is ironing, Tuesday Ironing(repeat Monday) Everybody happy, well I should say. Today is Wednesday, Wednesday roast beef, Repeat previous Today is Thursday, Thursday Zooooop, Repeat previous Today is Friday, Friday Fish, Repeat previous Today is Saturday, Saturday Payday, Repeat previous Today is Sunday, Sunday Church, Repeat previous. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Yvi Date: 08 Apr 08 - 05:38 PM I know it to be a childrens book by Eric Carle and found the tunes here: www.songsforteaching.com/jimrule/todayismonday.htm |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 01 Apr 08 - 12:54 PM My father used to sing the Today is Monday song but I can't remember all the words. The following is what I remember Today is Monday, Today is Monday Monday roast beef Tuesday (I can remember Tuesday's food) Wednesday hassepfeffer Thursday soup Friday fish All you German mothers, I wish the same to you. My father grew up in Wisconsin, the son of a second generation German mother who sent my father to an after regular school German school. He may have learned the song there. He would sing it to my sister and me. Jean |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Doug, Guest from Denver Date: 16 Jul 07 - 08:30 AM The Captain Kangaroo kids TV program in the early 60s used to play this song fairly often. It was the string beans, soup, roast beef, fish version. I think the tag they used was "All you hungry people, now eat it up," or at least that's how I remember. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,foxyloxy Date: 21 Jun 07 - 05:30 PM Best version I've heard, with actions, in reverse order to save time: Today is Sunday - sung v. quietly (X2, bow head, hands in praying position) Sunday we go to the pub. Saturday we go to the match (hands hold imaginary football scarf over head, sway from side to side) Friday - Fish & Chips (mimic taking a chip out of the bag & putting it in your mouth) Thursday - Soooo - p ( mimic spooning soup out of a bowl into mouth) Wednesday - Roast Beef ( make fists & rotate lower arms so wrists & fists turn around each other) Tuesday - ironing ( mimic ironing) Monday is washing day (make fists, move both hands out and down, then back, repeatedly) Before they had washing machines, people used to wash clothes by rubbing them up & down on a ribbed board held in a basin of soapy water. Each time ,after the final day, "Is everybody happy - you bet your life we are !" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 03 Mar 07 - 11:43 AM I learned bits of this from my father, who was in WWI. All I remember is: Today is Thursday ...Thursday, hassenpfeffer. All German brothers wish they had the same. Friday was fish; Saturday soup. I forget the rest. |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:48 PM DASHING AWAY WITH THE SMOOTHING IRON THE GAS-MAN COMETH THE RUSTY COLD FARMER |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,sarah Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:36 PM any versions with all the chores for the different days of the week? |
Subject: RE: Req/ADD: Today Is Monday From: NightWing Date: 02 Feb 06 - 05:54 PM The version I know is rather similar to the anonymous Guest shortly above me: learned from the Hash House Harriers. I had never heard of it having a tune. (Ya learn somethin' new ever' day.) We do it as a chant, call and response form, with each verse having it's characteristic, uh, motion/gesture. Final verse:
[quietly]
BB, |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,Guest Date: 01 Feb 06 - 06:31 PM I remember this song or a similar one from the "Twice 55 Song Book," used at my public school around 1955. I think it's a I/V7 chord progression with a marching tempo, relying on tonic for most of the piece except for the last line, which goes to the V7 chord the fifth tone of the key going down the scale: V, IV, III, II, I. Then repeat. I haven't tried it yet, but that how I remember it. Does any one remember the "Twice 55 Song Book?" |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 13 Oct 05 - 08:29 AM Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee, Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee, Wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee poo-bum wee-wee poo-bum wee! Yay Yay !! |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST Date: 11 Apr 05 - 03:20 AM Today is Monday, Sunday is for drinkin Saturday football Friday shaggin; Thursday thinkin; Wednesday wankin; Tuesday errrgghh; Monday is the finger day ARE WE HAPPY? YA BET YA LIFE WE ARE |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Snuffy Date: 16 Mar 05 - 07:04 PM The Bonzos did this song?. No. It was the Scaffold |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: Azizi Date: 16 Mar 05 - 04:20 PM I have a vague remembrance of this song from my childhood. However, I can recall no further than "today is Monday, today is Monday; Monday ????..and then down through the days of the week.. I provide presentations in schools & after school groups usually for elementary school age children and my daughter is . A standard part of some of my presentations is to ask children what songs they are familar with. They've never mentioned this song. However, I'll check with my daughter who is a a 2nd grade teacher in the Pittsburgh Public schools to see if she is familiar with it being taught in her school system or if she remembers it from her childhood. IMO, this sounds like the kind of song that music teachers might teach. Because a number of children in inner city these schools are too often hungry, I would think that it would be inappropriate to sing "All you hungry children/Come and eat it up." |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:58 PM My grandfather used to sing it this way (I am only including the last verse to save space): Today is Sunday, Today is Sunday, Sunday church; Saturday payday; Friday fish; Thursday roast beef; Wednesday zoo-oop; Tuesday string beans; Monday hasenpfeffer; All you hungry children, I wish the same to you |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: thespionage Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:53 PM The Bonzos did this song? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday From: GUEST,C.H. Date: 15 Mar 05 - 10:45 PM In my youth (last millenium) it was "The Workhouse Chant" and there was no Pay-Day ... It was "Gruel" |
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