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Songs you used to sing at school
bryemycaz
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With the kids going back to school I started thinking back to my school days.
Every friday we used to have a singing lesson as well as singing during assembly. It was the 1980s when I was at junior school but as well as the traditonal Hymns, We also sang a lot of 60s folk songs stuff like, Blowin in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, Where have all the flowers gone. Also we sang older songs like Pack up your troubles, Don't dilly dally on the way, The Quatermaster's Stores.
There were silly songs too Fling It Here, After The Ball was Over and a couple of Beatles songs Yellow Submarine and When Im Sixty four.
Anyone else sing songs like this at Junior school I don't hear of my daughter doing stuff like this these days at junior school.
Every friday we used to have a singing lesson as well as singing during assembly. It was the 1980s when I was at junior school but as well as the traditonal Hymns, We also sang a lot of 60s folk songs stuff like, Blowin in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, Where have all the flowers gone. Also we sang older songs like Pack up your troubles, Don't dilly dally on the way, The Quatermaster's Stores.
There were silly songs too Fling It Here, After The Ball was Over and a couple of Beatles songs Yellow Submarine and When Im Sixty four.
Anyone else sing songs like this at Junior school I don't hear of my daughter doing stuff like this these days at junior school.
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Used to have a reverend that came in to our assembly once every month or so and sang them with us too.
My daughter's Junior school sung Beatles songs and the Monkees, a few other sixties songs. Her music teacher was probably a young lad about that time, so probably was reminiscing himself
That's it.
The cossack song.
Cielito lindo
The Gypsy dance
And Nymphs and Shepherds (which was rare for a Friday, but wonderful, if bloody hard). We used to sing loads of songs in Music lessons, they weren't unfamiliar.
"I am the Lord of the Dance", said he.
The Ink is black.
YES, and them - we had them occasionally too.
I hear thunder...hark don't you...potter patter raindrops..
London's Burning
I know it had it had everything from 'Morning Has Broken' to 'Let it Be'.
We were just told to go to the appropriate page number before hand.
I saw a mouse . Where? There on the stair, right there!
A little mouse with clogs on ! Well I declare, going clip clippty clop on the stairs.
Bloody ingrained on me .
ETA This might not be the same mouse.
I loved the mouse in Amsterdam!
If I lived in a windmill how happy I'd be...there was a mouse there there on the stair, a little mouse with clogs on well I declare....Oops! Got carried away then, its all coming back to me
Is that still the Amsterdam one? I must be getting mixed up, I thought they were two different songs. I hated infant's school, these songs are my only good memories of them.
Edit: I see from Ada's answer it is
Hymns sung were: Hark the Herald Angels Sing: Lord of the Dance (I used to think that included the phrase 'dance settee'); All Things Bright and Beautiful; Come let us Adore Him.
Informal songs were: Clementine; Hungry Hungry; Would You Like To Swing On A Star?
Yes-they were both verses from the same song, which we sang. Also Hole in my Bucket and Just Passing By, the Rolf Harris song with the 'fascinating stitches in the britches...etc.'
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tickled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that to swallow a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog;
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow;
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!
... and breathe!
Oh I remember that
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1507383
Went to mow a meadow
One man and his supersonic sausage dog with rubber wellies on his feet
Went to mow a meadow
Two men went to mow
Went to mow a meadow
Two men, one man and his supersonic sausage dog with rubber wellies on his feet
Went to mow a meadow
Three men...
Etc
Also, that song, 'Oh soldier, soldier won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum. Oh no sweet maid, I cannot marry you...'
Also a song about John Barleycorn, which included the line: 'we made a solemn vow, John Barleycorn should die..' and '...we cut him skin from bone..' It was about the harvest of corn, and personified corn as John Barleycorn.
Also, Little Brown Jug and He's Got the Whole World in his Hands.