Songs you used to sing...

[T.F.Student 0]

It was Pete Seeger...Bob Dylan. Joan Baez and just about every hippy band covered it.

[Tallyho 181]

mornig has broken.

where have all the flowers gone.

dance lord wherever he may be. ( i think thats what its called)

the farmer wants a wife.

tinker, tailor.

thats all i can think of for now, i went to a roman catholic school so proply sang every hyme that there ever was written

[jacob 28]

LAY LADY LAY

[Kay 3,709]

''''''your gunner get your feckin head kicked in'''''' was a classic song in my youth

 

[T.F.Student 0]

With us that went along with "Your going home in a St Johns Ambulance"

[J Darcy 5,871]

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones

Gonna hear the word of the Lord.

Your toe bone connected to your foot bone

Your foot bone connected to your ankle bone

Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone

Your leg bone connected to your knee bone

Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone

Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone

Your hip bone connected to your back bone

Your back bone connected to your shoulder bone

Your shoulder bone connected to your neck bone

Your neck bone connected to your head bone

I hear the word of the Lord.

 

Them bones, them bones gonna walk around

Them bones, them bones gonna walk around

Them bones, them bones gonna walk around

I hear the word of the Lord.

 

Disconnect them bones, them dry bones

Disconnect them bones, them dry bones

Disconnect them bones, them dry bones

Now hear the word of the Lord.

 

Your head bone connected from your neck bone

Your neck bone connected from your shoulder bone

Your shoulder bone connected from your back bone

Your back bone connected from your hip bone

Your hip bone connected from your thigh bone

Your thigh bone connected from your knee bone

Your knee bone connected from your leg bone

Your leg bone connected from your ankle bone

Your ankle bone connected from your foot bone

Your foot bone connected from your toe bone

I hear the word of the Lord

I hear the word of the Lord

[jasper65 6]

We plant the fields and scatter..........

 

Hallelujah..... Hallelujah...... Halleluuujjjjaaaah...... .

 

It was a nightmare singing some of this shite at school! a old granny would be in the corner playing her Piano and the music teacher would be standing on the stage scanning who wasn't singing........

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I don't know if it would be called singing nowadays, but we were "expected" to sing to the likes of:

 

Lord Of the Dance

 

My eldest came home from junior school singing that to himself one day with his own lyrics as he obviously heard the big kids singing it and he just sang what he though they sang . . .

 

' . . . . Dance then, wherever you may be, for I am the Lord of the Damp Settee . . .'

 

Tears rolled down my face that day I can tell you . . .

 

OTC

[Guest JDF]

and this total classic...

 

Come to town the other night

Heard the noise and saw the fight

Watchman was a-runnin' 'round

Said "Old Dan Tucker's come to town."

 

So, git out the way for Old Dan Tucker

He's too late to get his supper

Supper is over and breakfast's cookin'

Old Dan Tucker just stands there lookin'

 

Old Dan Tucker come to town

Ridin' a billygoat, leadin' a hound

Hound, he barked and the billygoat jumped

Throwed old Dan, he straddled a stump.

 

So, git out the way for Old Dan Tucker

He's too late to get his supper

Supper is over and breakfast's cookin'

Old Dan Tucker just stands there lookin'

 

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man

Washed his face in a frying pan

Combed his hair with a wagon wheel

And died with a toothache in his heel.

 

So, git out the way for Old Dan Tucker

He's too late to get his supper

Supper is over and breakfast's cookin'

Old Dan Tucker just stands there lookin'

this one and quite a few other seeger classics are on springsteens new album the seeger seesions(available on limewire)

[snoopdog 1,256]

I used to sing the Snow Man one by Alid Jones while i was on the bog .. :whistle: ..

Millet

the shit you come out with millet it must be a long song

[whin 463]

at school we go traditional scottish ballads and being a catholic all the hyme shite by the time i was twelve i chucked the towel in wasnt for me and feched of , away home never went back till secondary ,got bollocked and was taken back by the police but i hated it and had an ingrained memory of any law and order for years or lord or gentry for that matter all the best , songs, roamin in the gloaming , with st paddys fenian band , then later the miners strike came to our village then there were other wrong doings to be getting on with and more songs of woe and debauchury , the pogues the corries , etc my name is jock stuart im a free born man a canny young fellow i am , we got songs like killie crankio, jonny lad , the bonny banks of loch lomond , out head master was into traditinal scottish music etc so we had to sing it etc, oor wee schools a gid wee school its made of bricks and plaster the only thing wrong wi it is the feching heed master

[whin 463]

o i fought at a land and i fought at sea but i didint meet the devil till the braes o dundee there i met him face to face on the banks and braes of killiecranki o, o if you had seen what i had saw you wid nae be so canty o , as the blood runs doon the hills oooh killicranko, o its nae shame tae swagger noo o its nae shame tae stagger noo as you met the devil and came back on the hills of killiecranki o, o if you had seen what i had seen o you widnae be so swankio , a grand song there alot more to the song fighting the ole enemy

[mooster 1]

For the over 40's... what was the one about the knight..".with a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand,for god and for valour he rode through the land."?

Followed by "country dancing" practice in black elasticated plymsoles.That's what you call educationMr Blair!!!

[Simoman 110]

I used to sing the Snow Man one by Alid Jones while i was on the bog .. :whistle: ..

Millet

 

Your mistaking it for wee willy winky Millet

[nelson 0]

When i went to Driffield Junior school in East Yorkshire, ( where education meant nothing if you couldn't play sports, smoke players No 10 and fight rival gangs of 10 year olds to death ) there were some brilliant songs to be sung.

 

"We built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue and we thought we had a ship that the water would never got through. But by Gods almighty hand said that ship would never land, it was sad when that great ship went down "

 

"There was Dido, Bondigo, Gentry he was there O, Traveller, was never far behind them." ( about hounds that one )

 

There were all those Hymns as well, where, as Jasper describes, some scowling faced tw*t would point you out if you weren't singing. Reading from a big sheet of paper hung from the ceiling in assembly.

 

Assemblies where things were explained to you in a manner not seen nowadays, like " Please dont call Anne Smith a fat cow as some girls naturally carry more blubber than boys", well let me tell you Fatty Smith................you started something you fridge magnet, bingo wings at 10 aint good and i meant every word.

 

( Please note in the '70's no ferker could afford to be fat )