Page 7 | Old School songs and did they affect you in any way?

Deathraystare · 2021-10-29T16:08:56+00:00

For some reason the same bloody song from school keeps going around in my head. I hated it! Basically it quite angers me! Yes I suppose that sounds hard but it must have stirred some early feminist feelings. Basically it went "Oh Soldier, Soldier won't you marry me with your musket, fife and drum?" "Oh no sweet maid I cannot marry you for I have no xxx of my own" "So off she goes to her Grandfather's chest and gets him a xxx of the very, very best and the Soldier puts them on". Of course at the very end after the bastard has sponged off her he tells her he cannot marry her as he has a wife of his own. Everyone else thought this was funny. I did not, I thought it was terrible! Another song was about "Go and tell Aunt Nancy the old grey goose is dead" this upset me cos I was (still am) soft over animals.

Dilbertian · 30/10/2021 20:55

Dragons live forever, but not so little boys. Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.

"make way for other toys" tells you Jackie grew up and stopped being a child playing make-believe games.

It's like Peter Pan: Peter loses Wendy because she grows up and leaves him behind.

DonkeyInAHat · 30/10/2021 21:08

WithMyEncyclopedia

&Branleuse
When a knight won his spurs

MrsSiba · 30/10/2021 21:28

Me too, every time 😂

MrsSiba · 30/10/2021 21:31

That was directed @ArchwizardTVampirebat singing When Knight Won His Spurs when phone chargers area mentioned

Quote fail 🤦🏽‍♀️

Rainbowsew · 30/10/2021 21:33

I'm with you op,hated that song! Even as a little girl I thought what a cheeky bastard! But also I don't think I'd have kept getting stuff for him either like the girl did

I still can't get through puff the magic dragon in my late 40s, the children banned me from singing it😭😭😭😭

Rainbowsew · 30/10/2021 21:45

@MrsScrubbingbrush

For those of you who still find the ending of Puff the Magic Dragon too traumatic a couple of extra verses were added...

One fine day it happened, Puff woke from a dream
He thought he heard a familiar voice and Jackie’s laugh it seemed
He looked around his cavern and over by the door
Stood a little boy with a piece of string and smile he’d seen before

“Hello My name is Billy, my dad told me your name
He said I’d find you in the cave along the cherry lane“
Puff, that mighty dragon smiled in his joy
He’d never be alone again for this was Jackie’s boy

Oh thank heavens!

My dc had a book version that implied another child discovered puff in his cave which gave me some hope for the poor dragon!

sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 30/10/2021 22:03

We had to sing 'Ash Grove' at my aunt's funeral (really, REALLY personal reasons) and I don't think any of us got through the end of the last verse because we were totally choked up.

Which was helpful when I had to stand up about 30 seconds after the end and deliver her eulogy. It was like the most excruciating Richard Curtis scene you could ever imagine with snot & tears and my voice going all high-pitched and wobbly at random moments

RobertaFirmino · 30/10/2021 22:32

we sung a version of 'Inky Pinky Parleyvous' about an old woman of 82 who 'let a fart and off it blew'

The old woman in our version was 92. She had a shit and off it flew! It went rolling down the street and knocked a copper off his feet. He pulled out his trusty pistol and shot the shit right into Bristol. Bristol Rovers were playing at home and kicked the shit right into Rome. Julius Caesar was drinking gin, he opened his mouth and the shit flew in. It went rolling down his spine and knocked his bollocks out of line!

There was 'Down In The Back Alley' as well, she met 'him' in various colours and did all manner of naughty things. She met him in black and lay down on her back, met him in blue and said 'The baby's due' and the last time she met him, she met him in check. She wrung his bloody neck!

'Come and Praise' had some quality moments too. Besides 'Cold and naked', there was 'Would you walk by on the other side when someone called for AIDS' (this was the early-mid 80s) and 'The earth is yours O God. You nouriSHIT with rain'!

eddiemairswife · 30/10/2021 22:48

Girls' school 1950s ; 'Come See Golden-hearted Spring'. Our music teacher, Miss Cop[and, a small spherical head above a large spherical body...'Breath from the diaphragm'. If you were unfortunate to be in the front row she might seize your hand and place it on her diaphragm to demonstrate.

ArchwizardTVampirebat · 30/10/2021 22:48

The old woman in our version was 92. She had a shit and off it flew! It went rolling down the street and knocked a copper off his feet. He pulled out his trusty pistol and shot the shit right into Bristol. Bristol Rovers were playing at home and kicked the shit right into Rome. Julius Caesar was drinking gin, he opened his mouth and the shit flew in. It went rolling down his spine and knocked his bollocks out of line!

Interesting variations! The progress of the fart was the same until it arrived in Rome, then: 'Julius Caesar eating tarts; missed the tart and ate the fart' and (less colourfully) 'Julius Caesar went to bed; in the morning, he was dead.'

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 30/10/2021 23:34

Did anyone else ever sing ‘Oh Jesus I have promised’ to the Match of the Day theme tune? ‘Oh JEsus I have promised, to SERVE thee to the end (bom bom), Be THOU forever near me, My MASter and my friend (bom bom), I SHALL not fear the battle, if THOU art by my side, No-or wander from the pa-athway if thou wilt be my guide’. (Yep after 40 years grin)

I don't remember those words to the MOTD tune, but I vaguely remember another set of lyrics, sort of using football terminology in a hymn context, including a line about 'proclaiming Christ as your Captain', Can't remember any more of it, though.

I really like the Eton school song, "Jolly Boating Weather", though I should stress that I have never had anything to do with the school!

I have no links whatsoever with Harrow School (rough comp, me!), but I find some of the phrasing and concepts in 'Forty Years On' really poignantly beautiful.

OrangeJuiceAndNoodles · 31/10/2021 00:38

We used to sing a really fucked up one that went:

'Have you seen the ghost of John?
Long white bones with his flesh all gone
Woooo-oooo-oooo-oooo-ooooo-oooo,
Wouldn't it be funny with no skin on?'

ArchwizardTVampirebat · 31/10/2021 00:44

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Did anyone else ever sing ‘Oh Jesus I have promised’ to the Match of the Day theme tune? ‘Oh JEsus I have promised, to SERVE thee to the end (bom bom), Be THOU forever near me, My MASter and my friend (bom bom), I SHALL not fear the battle, if THOU art by my side, No-or wander from the pa-athway if thou wilt be my guide’. (Yep after 40 years grin)

I don't remember those words to the MOTD tune, but I vaguely remember another set of lyrics, sort of using football terminology in a hymn context, including a line about 'proclaiming Christ as your Captain', Can't remember any more of it, though.

I really like the Eton school song, "Jolly Boating Weather", though I should stress that I have never had anything to do with the school!

I have no links whatsoever with Harrow School (rough comp, me!), but I find some of the phrasing and concepts in 'Forty Years On' really poignantly beautiful.

Oh Jesus I have promised to MOTD is brilliant!

LoveFall · 31/10/2021 00:54

@MargaretThursday

Lots of them were sad.

I remember all of the above. "Illkey Moor bah tat"-then we shall have to bury thee....

We sang a song about the Titanic with the chorus:
"It was sad, it was sad
It was sad when that old ship went down.
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when that old ship went down."

Lovely jolly tune, but felt a bit incongruous with the words.

We sang the Titanic song too, at Girl Guide camp in Canada.

ChesapeakeEmbarrassed · 31/10/2021 10:33

@LittleBoxes

@@!!! Whoever thought that was an appropriate song to write or show to children really should be sent to prison.

IAcceptSpookies · 01/11/2021 15:32

@Justawaterformeplease

Before I ever saw the lyrics I thought it was I am the Lord of the dance settee. Always wanted one of those!

Oh I loved the lord of the dance settee!

Does anyone know what became of the monkey monkey monkey monkey monkey monkey monkey?

That still bothers me.

Clawdy · 01/11/2021 16:41

Ah, the Animal Fair song! Haven't heard that for ages.

Branleuse · 06/11/2021 20:34

We went to the animal fair. The birds and the bees were there
The big baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair
The monkey fell out of his bunk ( wooh)
And slid down the elephants trunk (weeeee)
The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees
Amd what became of the monkey monkey monkey

LadyEv · 06/11/2021 22:25

Does any one remember this song from the early 90s? The words as far as I remember them go ...
Monday morning he got up,
It's raining! It's raining again
I can't go to school today he said
It's raining it's raining again
Antonio Antonio it's raining it's raining aga
The chap spends the entire song whining to Antonio that he can't do anything because it's always raining. My brother went to the same school as me and he can't remember it

GrainOfSalt · 06/11/2021 22:48

'Two little boys' which was first sung by Harry Lauder and was written in 1902 by Theodore F Morse and Edward Madden. It's one of our car songs.

KloppsTeeth · 07/11/2021 01:35

@LadyEv

Does any one remember this song from the early 90s? The words as far as I remember them go ... Monday morning he got up, It's raining! It's raining again I can't go to school today he said It's raining it's raining again Antonio Antonio it's raining it's raining aga The chap spends the entire song whining to Antonio that he can't do anything because it's always raining. My brother went to the same school as me and he can't remember it

@LadyEv yes! It was from a BBC Music for Schools thing.

Invasionofthegutsnatchers · 07/11/2021 01:45

What was the song about famine that went

...the desert is so dry, no shade

?
I can't remember and it's driving me mad. Primary school in the early 90s.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 07/11/2021 09:02

I still like Soldier, Soldier!

One I really didn’t like went,
‘Oh, what have you got for dinner Mrs Bond?’
There’s beef in the larder,
And ducks on the pond.

Singing, Dilly dilly, dilly dilly
Come and be killed!
For you must be stuffed
And my customers filled.’

I felt sorry for the ducks!

There was another, evidently about a drowned father -
‘Full fathom five, my father lies
Of his bones, are coral made…’. etc.

Clawdy · 07/11/2021 09:48

"Full fathom five..." is Shakespeare, never heard it as a school song!

VenusClapTrap · 07/11/2021 09:57

This is a real trip down memory lane. Puff passed me by as a child but ds was bought a book version that reduced me to sobs every time I reached the page with ‘Dragons live forever, not so little boys’. I had to hide the book in the end to stop him asking for it.

So many sad seventies folk songs on here that we sang at junior school - Sloop John B, Streets of London, Where have all the Flowers Gone, Leaving of Liverpool, Streets of Laredo. So much death and misery! I loved them all. I was a melancholy child.

Then when I changed schools aged 8 it was all Singing Together. I can still remember so many of the words of those songs! There was an amazing thread on here a few years ago, reminiscing about those.