The yoof of today...

Flanders and Swann were great for these types of songs, funny, a little bit risqué and wonderful for singalongs.

We called her dear Liza, dear Liza, but I cannot remember the name of the brother whose bucket had the hole!
Was he Willie? or am I mixing him up with Old Father William?

How about the little boy called Albert, who was taken to the zoo, and eaten by a lion? And mother was 'vexed'?
He had a stick with a horses head handle. Albert, that is; not the lion!

I loved Pip's song: I dink I saw a puddy cat a cweeping up on me. I say I SAW A PUDDY CAT A CWEEPING UP ON ME

Mud, Mud was one of the songs of Flanders and Swann, who also did Have some Madeira, and The Gasman cometh. and One about London Buses.
We don't ask much for wages. We only want fare shares.
So pull down all the stages and put up all the fares.
If tickets cost a pound a piece why should you make a fuss?
It's worth it just to ride inside a 20foot long by 10 foot wide
London Transport, scarlet coated,Diesel engined, 97 horsepower, omnibus
For a great laugh-(but maybe not if you are having work done on your house)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyeMFSzPgGc

My dad always told that one to my DSs MissAdventure they loved it. Stanley Holloway did it as a monologue.

Anyone remember this one (sung by my naughty uncle to us, so perhaps he made it up himself)

The Corporation muck cart was full up to the brim,
The Corporation driver fell in and could not swim.
He sank right to the bottom, just like a little stone,
And you could hear him whistling, "There's no place like home"

The other he sang, I know existed in other families:

You can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin, our dustbin,
You can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin's full.
There's rats in, there' s cats in't, there's me faitiher's auld spats in't
So ye can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin's full.

I'm with whitewave I have no idea!!

Once you start with Flanders and Swann you can't stop. If you aren't English maybe you shouldn't listen. And it is definitely not PC.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdY1Y5XNJBY

Oh the memories!

I remember most of these and:

20 tiny fingers, 20 tiny toes
2 angel faces, each with a turned up nose
One looks like mommy with a cute little curl on the top
And the other one's go a big bald spot exactly like his pop

So many more spring to mind

Remember most of them used to sing to my children they thought I was bonkers.

Our swing songs were Daisy Daisy, My old man man said follow the van (took me years to fathom what a cock linnet was), She was a sweet little dicky birď. These are all Edwardian music hall songs that must have been sung to my dad as a child.

Lovely thread!

I think Lisa's brother was Henry.

We also sang 'Bobby Shafto went to sea....' and 'The big ship sailed down the ?Illy-Ally-Ooh...'

My mother taught me 'Nelly goes down to the water' and a rude version of We Three Kings of Orient are.

My youngest has never gone to Sunday school and as a consequence she doesn't know any hymns. I'm not a believer myself but I am sad that such a rich vein of music and words will be lost, though I know it's my own fault.

There's always

A mother was bathing her baby one night
The youngest of ten, and a tiny young mite
The mother was poor and the baby was thin
Only a skeleton covered with skin
The mother turned round for the soap off the rack
She was but a moment, but when she looked back
Her baby was gawn and in anguish she cried
'Oh where is my baby?' The Angels replied,

Your baby has gone down the plug-hole
Your baby has gone down the plug
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
It oughta been washed in a jug
Your baby is ever so happy
He won't need a bath any more
Your baby has gone down the plughole
Not lost but gone before.'

There was an old man named Michel Finnegan
He grew whiskers on his chin-egan
The wind came up and blew them in again
Poor Old Michael Finnegan
Begin again

And good old Solomon Grundy born on a Monday of course.

I sing most of these with gd especially in car she will be coming round the mountain is one of her favourites

Our DOGS is 4 and has a strange vocabulary, most of which comes from me, I realised one day as I managed to get 'ridu'riduculous' ' hilarious' and 'for heaven's sake' all in one sentence & remembered who I'd most recently heard saying them! He loves all the old favourite songs & we have a CD for our car journeys. The Big Rock Candy Mountain is his favourite. For some reason recently, I was singing an ancient Louis Jordan number called Choo Choo Chi Boogie & he picked it up straight away. I found it on Spotify & he's now added it to his repertoire- he loves singing

Just came back to this thread!!!

Now I know what you are all talking about

I loved Abdul Abulbul Amir and Tommy Steele's Little White Bull ( sorry a theme developing here )
Also Nymphs and Shepherds ---I can sing all the words. Sadly

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

missadventure irish rovers-the unicorn song

Another one we used to sing was A Fairy Goes A-marketing.

We still have a Listen With Mother LP somewhere.

I didn't know a fairy went a-marketing was a song. I had it in a lovely poetry book when I was a child, and always loved it.
Thank you, mimiro wonder if it will still make me cry - "Oh those SILLY unicorns!" used to have me in floods of tears. Excuse the pun!