Best loved songs from your childhood???

My mother loved Victorian ballads like "Pale Hands I love" and "Come into the Garden Maude".

Gagagran. Do you mean 'In a Monastery Garden' by Ronnie Ronalde?

It was my late FiL's favourite and MiL wanted it played at his funeral which was fine but the numpty at the crem. who was in charge of the music played the wrong side of the record so we walked behind the coffin to.......'In a Persian Market'

I'll leave you to picture the scene.

Did Ronnie Ronalde sing ' If I were blackbird' ? With lots of whistling?

Oh merlot, that made me laugh...!

Merlot yes that's the one and I remember the other side "In a Persian Market" now you have reminded me! I bet you had to suppress a smile or even a nervous giggle or two.

Don't Jump Off The Roof Dad by Tommy Cooper, I can remember every word of that song. The Teddy Bear's Picnic used to scare me a little...goodness knows why!

I remember all the Children's Favourite ones, but the songs sung to us by my parents were " The Wild Colonial Boy" and "Don't Laugh at Me, 'Cos I'm a Fool" ( father), and " My Ain Folk" and " Skye Boat Song" ( mother)

My father also sang;

In an underground garret,
Up three flights of stairs,
Next door to the man who made apples and pears,
There lived a wee wumman wi' teeth like a rose,
And she could not stop smiling for corns on her nose.

To the tune of " The Old Orange Flute"!

Daddima...You from Glasgow by any chance?

Nearer Stirling, Linsco, but within singing distance of both!

....Keep 'em coming! Lots of songs to learn, it'll keep me out of mischief - for a while

Gillygillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogen by the sea -ea -ea.

(aka "There's a tiny house, by a tiny stream,
Where a lovely lass had a lovely dream,
And the dream came true, quite unexpectedly
In Gillygillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogen by the sea -ea -ea.
Gillygillyossenfefferkatzenellenbogen by the sea

She was out one day, where the ?????????s grow,
When a handsome lad stopped to say hello.

etc etc
blah blah

And they both lived happily
In Gillygilly-etc")

Then there is "She sat by the river and played her guitar . . . .He sat down beside her and smoked his cigar . . . ." (not such a happy ending as in Katzenellenbogenbythesea - he murders her, but gets his come- uppance - "Her tombstone fell on him and squish-squashed him flat" "She went to heaven and flip-flap she flew" but "He went to hell where he frizzled and fried"

.....Blimey! Elegran, that sounds a joyful little ditty

It is girl guide campfire one - sung with relish, particularly when the cad gets squish-squashed!

dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs3/S3_39.htm lyrics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiQyN3MONgg (not very well sung)

Haven't read right back to the beginning but "there's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza there's a hole in my bucket dear Liza, a hole"

Shirley Abicare (?) with a zither ' little boy fishing off a wooden pier'

Little Sir Echo, how do you do?
Hello! (Hello!) Hello! (Hello!)
Little Sir Echo, we'll answer you
Hello! (Hello!) Hello! (Hello!)
Hello! (Hello!) Hello! (Hello!)
Won't you come over and play with me? (and play)
You're a nice little fellow
I know by your voice
But you're always so far away (away)

Does anyone remember a little song that goes (something like this) -

Three little men in a flying saucer
flew down to earth one day
They (blah, blah blah!.....)
and ( " " ".........)
then quickly flew away.

Two little men (etc)

One little man (etc)

No one I know has heard of it. Have I imagined it

I am humming a tune, but don.t remember those words

Three little men in a flying saucer
flew down to earth one day
(They took a look around the place
decided to go back to space)???
so quickly flew away

????

Looked to left and right of it
Couldn't bear the sight of it
And quickly flew away.

Yes!!! Elegran. Was it the same for all 4 verses?

I can't remember the other verses, Boheminan, but they are probably somewhere online. Will take a look.

Most of the Google hits seem to be for five little men, a nursery rhyme version for children, but here is Ella Fitzgerald in 1951 on a 78, with two little men - more like I remember it.
soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/two-little-men-flying-saucer-ella-fitzgerald

You probably know all the Music Hall ones that come to mind. Like "Have some madeira, m'dear," followed by, "Oh Sir Jasper, do not touch me"", and ultimately by, "It's the rich wot gets the pleasure, it's the poor wot gets the blame".