The yoof of today...

I have a necklace with a small silver bee on it.
Every time my 4 year old DGD sees it, she sings "Buzz, buzz, honeybee, honeybee, buzz if you like but don't sting me." The Arthur Askey song I often sing.

I know very few of the songs in this thread. I remember having songs with lots of verses we sang on coach trips - I can only remember "he jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet".
Also as a young adult we used to go to sing alongs in pubs with songs like "maybe it's because I'm a Londoner" which have been replaced by karaoke with pop songs.

I treated myself to these CDs about 6 months ago - took them to DD's and promptly lost them to DGD, who adores them...! Her favourite, which reduces her to roars of laughter every time, is the one about "I am a mole and I live in a hole"
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Chase me,Charlie
Chase me,Charlie
Lost the leg of me drawers
Chase me, Charlie
Chase me,Charlie
Wont you lend me yours?

And many versions of- Auntie Mary,had a canary Up the leg of her drawers

Who says 'drawers' now?

Jackyb, I have been known to sing a much ruder version of that song!

I always felt sad when I worked in early years, and so many children could only sing Baa Baa Black Sheep. I'll always remember the wee fellow ( aged 3), who gave us a full theatrical rendition of " Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"!

Most people of my age remember singing, " Marianina" in primary, and I'm sure singing of such songs led to many young people singing more classical songs.

Oh and another! Terry Scott - "who locked grandad in the loo? My brother!"

We used to like "Jake the peg" although we shouldn't have, in retrospect, and I seem to remember a song by Tommy Cooper, I think. "Don't jump off the roof, dad"

Yes remember all the above and The Runaway Train and Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea!

Yes, bread basket, nose wiper, chest protector.. and I think we made some up, as well.

I remember 'one finger, one thumb'.

'a keeper did a shooting go' is the party piece of two of my bil at family gatherings. They also sing one about a cabin boy drowning to a very similar tune. I'll have to Google that one.

A song I loved was 'The railroad runs through the middle of the house' sung, I think, by Rosemary Clooney.

Cari has a point though. What will our grandchildren sing to their children?

I can imagine mine handing them over (If I'm still here) for a taste of what they grew up with but I don't really think DGD1's warbling of Whitney's 'I will always love you' will catch on at bedtime.

JackyB

I remember both of these songs, well after you mentioned them.

One finger one thumb goes on something like:- One finger, one thumb, one arm, one leg, one nod of the head keep moving. Repeat twice then we'll all be merry and bright. Next verse has this verse then add stand up, sit down keep moving and so on with all the actions along the way.

What about run rabbit, run rabbit run run run. Have heard this a couple of times since on Dads Army.

Used to love My Old Man Said Follow the Van.

This has been a lovely thread. So many memories.

I remember all the words to the Beverly Hill Billies.

Come listen to the story of a man named Ged
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed
And then one day while he was shooting at some food
Up from the ground came a bubbling crude...
Oil, that is, Texas gold.....

To redeem myself slightly, I also remember the words from Sunday school songs. And In the Quartermasters Store was always sung on the bus on the way home from the annual Sunday School outing. I used to know the words to There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly but I've forgotten most of them now.

I remember almost all of these. I'd forgotten the baby going down the plug hole, I loved after the ball was over, sang that and McGinty had a Donkey and he kept it in the yard, with my gran.
annodomino, we had that same record with Teddy Bears picnic on one side and Hush here comes the bogeyman on the other. Can you remember the name for the singer, I seem to have Henry Hall going round my memory but its probably wrong.

After the ball was over, she took out her glass eye etc. Loved and sung with gusto by the children at my school.

JackyB
Does the song have a line "this is my bread basket"? whilst pointing at your chest or tummy. "These are my knee knockers" its familiar but I can't remember it properly!

Charles Penrose sang The Laughing Policeman, and how I loved singing "Among the leaves so greeno" which is the" Jackie Boy, Master, Singee Well"etc song. I so enjoyed "Singing Together" at school

The first line is ...With my hands on my head...what have we here.
You will be safe to google it!

JackyB the peripatetic music teacher used to singing that song with the children at school, the children loved it! I bet she is still teaching them!

PS - I daren't google "with my hands on myself..." and nor have I looked for it on Youtube!

My mother used to sing:

"With my hands on myself, what have I here,
this is my brainbox and nothing to fear,
Brainbox and nicky-nicky-nacky-noo
That's what they taught me when I went to school.

It goes on for loads more verses with silly names for parts of the body, but I have never found anyone else who knows it.

Also we used to sing

"One finger one thumb keep moving
One finger one thumb keep moving
One finger one thumb keep moving
We'll all be merry and bright!"

This goes on, adding a movement with every verse, and the verses get longer. Again - I know noone else who's ever heard it.

That's the one PollyPerkins. Loved it. Also, Green grow the leaves among the Hawthorne trees. Kids today don't know what they are missing!!

The flip side of the Teddy Bears' Picnic was Hush Hush, Hush, here comes the bogey man. It was quite scary when I was 4.

Pussy cat pussy cat where have you been.
Ive been to London to see the Queen.
and I love the Coronation song "As she drives in State through the palace gate, the whole world her beauty can see, she is the sweetest Queen the worlds ever seen, wearing her Crown of gold" etc. now thats old but I remember it distinctly.
Where did I put my shopping list today?!