To remember this primary school song?

Can't believe there's no mention of 'I was cold, I was naked, were you there, were you there...' everyone's favourite because you got to say naked and titter. Also 'SING hosanna, SING hosanna, SIIIIIING hosanna to the King OF KINGS!'

Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha,
Ging gang goo, ging gang goo.
Hayla, hayla shayla, hayla shayla hayla ho,
Hayla, hayla shayla, hayla shayla hayla ho.
Shaly waddy, shaly waddy, shaly waddy, shaly waddy,
Oom-pa, oom-pa, oom-pa, oom-pa,
Shaly waddy, shaly waddy, shaly waddy, shaly waddy,
Oom-pa, oom-pa, oom-pa, oom.
Ging gang goolie goolie goolie goolie watcha,
Ging gang goo, ging gang goo.

London's burning, London's burning.
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines.
Fire fire, Fire Fire!
Pour on water, pour on water.
London's burning, London's burning.
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines.
Fire fire, Fire Fire!
Pour on water, pour on water.
London's burning, London's burning.
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines.
Fire fire, Fire Fire!
Pour on water, pour on water.
Pour on water, pour on water.
Pour on water, pour on water.

DD taught that one to a bunch of baffled German teens on her year abroad. She said they really got into the 'shh' after a while.

If the words sound queer
And funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey

Sing “Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy”

Oh! Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?

I don’t remember that song but wonder if might be a good anthem for middle aged men?

don't take the paper off

WTF? How are kids meant to eat the sweet then?

@ToWhitToWhoo
I remember the birthday one from primary school😀

Another one from my primary school, that I love singing to my kids (my dh had never heard of it):

When you're smiling, when you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you
When you're laughing, when you're laughing
The sun comes shining through
But when you're crying
You bring on the rain
So stop your sighing
Be happy again!
Cos when you're smiling, when you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you!

On the 'keep smiling' front, one of our teachers (the same one who taught us the poem about Sammy the Snail) used to quote the lines 'Laugh and the world laughs with you/ Cry and you cry alone'. I would guess that the lines originated as a cynical comment about how most people are fair-weather friends; but our teacher interpreted and used it as an injunction not to cry.

The following is better known, but I definitely remember:

'If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands..
If you're happy and you know it,
And you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.'

Years later, during the pandemic, I used the verse to time my handwashing, with the word 'wash' substituted for 'clap'. As I hate my birthday, I didn't want to use 'Happy birthday', and this verse seemed to work well.

I played that on the piano during assembly practically every morning during the first half of the Autumn Term😄And yes,the kids really made a big thing of the '...and a win for my home team' !

I got married 32 years ago and was a primary school teacher, teaching Y2. The class came to my wedding and sang ‘love’s just like a magic penny’. It was very special and makes me feel all nostalgic years later.

I don't remember any of the songs here; but I remember some others that I haven't come across since.: does anyone else know them?

(1) Lots of animals live in the zoo,
Tigers and pandas and elephants too,
Lions and bears and the big kangaroo.
Lots of animals, lots of animals.
Lots of animals live in the zoo,.

(2) (A dancing song, close to Christmas):

I'm a fairy doll
Hanging on a tree.
All the little children
Dancing round me.
Tra la la! Tra la la! Tra la la!

(And more verses; e,g, 'I'm a golden star..')

(3) (On birthdays)

We wish you many happy returns of the day,]
We hope you will be healthy and strong all the way,
Strong to do right; slow to do wrong,
And thoughtful for others all the day long.

(4) (I just remember the first verse):

Jennifer Jane has a cold in her head
And a terrible big Achoo
And its 'Where;s your hankie?' and 'Come indoors'
And 'Blow for Nursie, do'.

(5) This was a recitation, rather than a song; and I don't remember most of it, but it was a very gloomy poem about Sammy the Snail, who said 'I fear I shall never get out of this pail'. and eventually fell to his death trying to do so. 'And that was the end of poor Sam-u-el!'

Oh my goodness 🥹 right in the feels 😍 I do hope the children I went to school with have happy memories too 🫂

I remember singing one that was really catchy in the 70’s

’So light up the fire and let the flame burn
Open the door let Jesus return
Go out in the city and into the street
And let’s give the message to the people we meet’

also Shalom Chaverim which we used to sing as a round and was beautiful.

Our version was slightly different

ta ra ra bum de day
my knickers flew away
they went on holiday
and came back yesterday

A similar one to the Find A Bin song was one that went:

Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them, every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn...

I think it's actually quite a dark wartime song but the version we sang was more naggy and less deep, it was just about ordinary stuff kids mustn't do.

We also had a Round that we sang even in up to 8 parts, and it went:

If you dance then you must have
Boots of shiny leather
Money in your pocketbook
And a cap and feather
But if you will sing with me
You don't need a cent you see
So come and sing together

It was in a sinister-sounding minor key and we loved it. You could do the round a line at a time, or half a line, or even just two beats apart

We sang it as cat by the stove too. Primary school in Leeds in the mid 80s. Moved across the Pennines and never heard it again!

...My knickers flew away
I found them yesterday
Ta Ra Ra bum-de-day

Don't think it was an assembly song though..😂

I did not! Thank you for reviving this lovely thread though!

Oh sorry - just seen he has already been mentioned upthread! Multitasking at bedtime!

‘The Golden Cockerel’ is one I definitely haven’t heard for about 30 years!

jamesbpartridge - incase the link doesn’t work!

It's ringing a bell with me (grew up in Yorkshire)

https://www.instagram.com/jamesbpartridge?igsh=amgwYnB4anUzcDlu

This guy is currently very popular on Instagram resurrecting all of the Primary School assembly bangers!