The yoof of today...

I still remember the words to 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fuddah' which I used to sing to the DGCs when they were small. They would join in with, 'Take meeeeeeee home, Oh muddah, fuddah' and we'd all fall about laughing.

I wonder what they'll sing to their children? At least they'll be able to mug up the words on You Tube.

The above posts are a total mystery to me?

I remember the words of hymns, I was brought up a Methodist girl and we enjoyed a good sing in chapel.

DH's nephew was here at the weekend and as we were reminiscing about how his sister used to sit on her swing and sing for hours, and he would play 'The Laughing Policeman' on an old wind up gramophone. As our gardens backed onto each other they were almost a permanent fixture. Happy days.

Maybe all is not lost though. I've just remembered driving two of our DGDs to a wedding where they were going to be bridesmaids. They entertained us then finally drove us mad with endless renditions of Show Me The Way to Amarillo!

I too remember the words to Delaney's Donkey (it had "a leg at every corner balancing its head and a tail to let you know which end it wanted to be fed"!). Ditto Paddy McGinty's Goat! But I can't remember what we had for dinner yesterday!

We named our youngest daughter after the child in the Tom Paxton song 'Katie'...

Oh, I have a little daughter, and my daughter's name is Kate.
And she's every bit mischievous as a kitten on a skate.
With a bandage on her forehead and the bruises on her knees,
You would swear she'd fought with buccaneers on all the seven seas.
For its up the stairs and down the stairs and in the room and out.
Like a miniature tornado, she can blow the house about.
Take an angel with the devil in the twinkling of her eye,
And that's my Katy, little lady, and I love her.

My Mum taught us Maria, Maria she pee'd on the fire and It was in Bagdad where me Mother met me Dad! My kids then taught the Maria song to their little friends who's Mum was not impressed. The 'Maria' song was actually mentioned at Mums funeral, but I hasten to add Ava Maria was played during the ceromony!

Dear old Val Doonican had a lot to answer for. ??I remember every word of Ernie,the fastest milkman in the west! I don't know what that says about me, but hey ho!??

Me too! It is the ringtone on my phone!

I so agree with the OP. I grew up listening to all the above and anything by Tommy Steele and Danny Kaye

I sing lots of childhood songs to my grandchildren. My grandson sang the Runaway train at his leaving assembly at pre school in July. The staff wanted to know how he knew it. Nanny was the response ?Little White Bull is another favourite.

Woodman, woodman spare that tree, cut not a single bough.
There's a hole in my bucket dear Lila, dear Lila ( or was it Delilah?)

I was in the supermarket the other day when I cam across a guy whistling Nellie The Elephant. Had a real laugh when I joined in.

I guess you have to be of a certain age :-)

My DH and I were only talking about this the other day, remembering the old "Stewpot" radio programme and "Uncle Mac." They played fun songs, children's songs, songs that we still remember, such as.......The Bubble Car, Runaway Train, Little White Bull, Ugly Duckling.....so many more.

When I was a music teacher, we'd often sing some of the old songs, which the kids loved - their favourite was Right, Said Fred - and I like to think that now they're adults they will remember them for their own children.

Lots of the songs my OH and I share come from the BBC Singing Together programme. O’er the ocean flies a merry fay, A keeper would a-hunting go, the Ash Grove among others.

My Grandson loves Ernie, who drives the fastest Milk Float in the west! So now my great grandchildren sing it, though it made my youngest daughter cry!! Also loved Grocer Jack!
'Grocer Jack, Grocer Jack, is it true what Mummy says you won't come back...Oh no no!'
Used to make my daughter cry too lol.
My grandchildren still sing some of the songs I used to sing, mainly thanks to my daughter teaching them! Think my daughters favourite was "When I'm 64!"
Some wonderful songs, thing is, even some of the teens of today agree that the older songs were the better ones, my 18 yr old grandson much prefers music from the '70's and '80's to the stuff they bring out today, which to me, always sounds the same!!

Nanny27 My mother had an old record player that played 78s (remember them) and she had an LP of Danny Kaye tongue twisters which is still remember - Moses supposes that noses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously. We used to play it all the time, and a record of Stanley Holloway monologues. We used to love Albert getting eaten by the lion but now I think that 'Brown Boots' is still relevant. I think children would still enjoy them today but they don't get those kind of opportunities.

Ohh Little White Bull! How I loved my dad singing that Musicelf! That and 'I saw a Mouse, Where? There on the stairs...' Sorry cant remember the title lol.

My father endlessly sang:-

Out in the jungle
Living in a tent
Better than a prefab
No rent!

And other delights like:

I can't get my winkle out
Isn't it a shame?
Every time I get it out
It pops right back again!

I hope this was about seafood.

Kids today don't know what they are missing.

'Don't jump off the roof, Dad
You'll make a hole in the yard
Mother's just planted petunias
The weeding and seeding was hard

If you must end it all, Dad
Won't you please give us a break
Just take a walk down the park, Dad
And there you can jump in the lake.'

My old mans a dustman , he wears a dustmans hat he wears gor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat, he looks a proper 'nanna in 'is great big 'obnail boots ..he has such a job to pull 'em up that ' calls 'em daisy roots
I used to do this with actions and to amuse my surrogate GD