Which songs/lyrics did you learn as a child (at school)?

[RustyRazor]

I have just discovered my 10 year old did not know the drunken sailor. I remember learning that at Brownies! I take full blame and the mistake has been rectified, although I'm sure we learned other lyrics than the Rovers version.
DC don't go to a UK school so they don't hear anything British/Irish unless it's through me. What other songs are missing from their education?

I don't think drunken sailor is PC these days 😂

General childhood songs...
Ten Green Bottles
One Man Went to Mow a Meadow
Old MacDonald had a farm
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
There's a hole in my bucket

Songs from school included
The Skye Boat Song
The Ash Tree
My Love's an Arbutus
Dashing away with a smoothing iron
Greensleeves

Aside from Colours of Day and Autumn Days, and the ones my teacher had made up himself, we learned Whiskey In The Jar and Camptown Races.

In P5 we had to learn Hava na gila. I can still sing every word 50 years later 😍

Lily the Pink - primary school

The whole Come and Praise book (blue)

Sweet Polly Oliver
The hermit (once in a bright greenwood lived a hermit wise and good...)
Oh, soldier soldier, won't you marry me ?

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the fishers is he
Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra
Gay your life must be

No idea why, we were in Bristol

Barbara Allen

The sky boat song.
Our singing teacher loved all things Scottish ( I went to school in Essex)

The big ship sails on the ally ally oh

Waltzing Matilda and the Kookaburra song mentioned below.
They also liked Australian Songs.

In instrumental class we learned how to play With A Little Help From My Friends on our various instruments and the accompanying lyrics. It's still one of my faves

The recorder group of people at school used to do a rendition of many a song that was fairly easy to play.
My parents didn't allow me to own one.
We did ' oliver ' as a drama production, so those songs were sung ( badly ) Lionel Bart numbers.
Flanders and swan songs were popular too.

I remember we listened to a radio show called "Singing Together" and covered a lot of classics- Sky boat song, kookaburra, Drunken sailor, Westering Home, polly woolly Doodle

When we sung the ' ironing song' we did the actions too : an early novelty record ! Some of the boys were very vocal about ironing !!

I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
I Saw a Mouse, Where?, There on the Stair, a Little Mouse With Clogs On .....
Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
On my darling Clementine
Bobby Shaftoe
Two Little Boys

loo laa lee, loo laa lee
Twigwidge carol of the Christmas Tree

...a radio series based around a character (alien?) called Twigwidge who iirc was a tree-based life-form

one of the other stories had
jumble sale jumble sale we have many things for you
jumble sale jumble sale some are old but some are new

Then there was "Prayers and Hymns for Junior Schools" which included
When a knight won his spurs
Daisies are our silver
He who would valiant be

Too early for Autumn Days. Can't remember whether Magic Penny was school or Sunday School:

Love is something if you give it away, give it away, give it away
Love is something if you give it away: you end up having more.
It's just like a magic penny; Hold it tight and you won't have any
Lend it, spend it and you'll have so many
They'll roll all over the floor: FOR
love is something... etc

We did the Jungle Book in our last year. When we were younger the choir did Jonah-Man Jazz, and we did a similar thing about David and Goliath
well he was one two three four five six seven eight NINE feet, NINE feet
yes he was one two three four five six seven eight nine feet tall
and
Daaaaaaaviiiiid..... Jooooonathaaannn...
David and Jonathan they loved one another

Oh, and the year above us did Grease (aged 11, yes... the film had just come out)
Bright Eyes was massive, too.

Aren't the only words in that song hava nagila?? 😂

My old mans a dustman
Any old iron
Casey Jones
Amazing Grace

Also Waltzing Matilda and Kookaburra! I was so delighted when DD came home from school the other day singing Kookaburra.

And, of course, Shine Jesus Shine.

Us too! In infants.

Some of the above and My Bonnie lied over the ocean, Swing low sweet chariot, Oats and beans and barley grow. Also "I was cold, I was hungry were you there?"

We used to sing Waltzing Matilda and Kookaburra too. Wonder why Australian songs were so popular in schools circa 1981?!