Apusski Dusky

[ThomasinaJones]

How many people remember singing this song as kids? And Lily the Pink? Bananas in Pyjamas?

DH doesn't remember any of these, and it's making me sad.

Anyone joining me a little sing-along (cross-legged on the carpet, hoping the person next to you doesn't wet themselves today)?

I've made a Spotify list to play to my grandkids in the car from songs when I was little

Their favourites are

The Laughing Policeman
Paddy McGinty's Goat
O' Rafferty's Motor Car

and the song they call the Jam in the Shoe song which is
My Brother by Terry Scott

I love hearing all these again

Lots of memories here (at primary school in the 1970's)

There's a great YouTube video with a man who goes through all the hymns in Come and Praise to decide which ones are assembly bangers. It's great.
I make sure that, at my school, we sing every single day.

OMG, I haven't thought about this song for ages but I seem to still remember most of words over 40 years later!

does anyone remember Maggalina Haggalina? My DDs sang broght it home from primary school and I'd neve heard it before, I just googled and it seems quite widely known!

I feel like the odd one out, we had these at home and my mum played the piano while my brother and I sang. I don't think I ever sang these at school.

Grocer Jack! Grocer Jack!

What a great day at school when Mrs Ritchie opens the book at Gobbolino the witch's cat.

My ship sailed from China, another floorfiller.

Where's your mama gone (where's your mama gone)
Little baby, Don? (Little baby, Don?)
Where's your mama gone? (Where's your mama gone?)
Far, far away
Where's your papa gone (where's your papa gone)
Little baby, Don? (Little baby, Don?)
Where's your papa gone? (Where's your papa gone?)
Far, far away
Far, far away-ay-ay-ay-ay
Last night I heard my mama singing a song
Ooh we, chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep
Woke up this morning and my mama was gone
Ooh we, chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep
Chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep chirp
Where's your mama gone (where's your mama gone)
Little baby, Don? (Little baby, Don?)
Where's your mama gone? (Where's your mama gone?)
Far, far away

Nellie the elephant pack her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
Now Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
And trundled off to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
The head of the herd was calling far far away
They met one night in the silver light
On the road to Mandalay

I loved Gobbolino 💕

There was one in Singing Together about peanuts, set in Cuba.
Peanuts! They hear me cry
Peanuts! They all reply

And everyone cracked up at the line: Big jumbos, big double ones…

The Sloop John B was another banger from junior school.

Heeeeeeees got the whollllle world in his haaaaands!!!!

I remember the brown and orange Appuskidu well. Primary school teachers playing the piano and us singing along.

My eyes are dim they cannot see, I have not brought my specs with me

Not in Scotland, but I think my primary school ran similar themes.
Another theme being American songs - I've been working on the Railroad, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Camptown Races,

Also, A Windmill in Old Amsterdam; Streets of London; In Dublin's Fair City; I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane; and Doe-Ray-Me from The Sound of Music

In a cavern in a canyon
Excavating for a mine
Lived a miner 49er....

Ooh yes, that one probably went with the American theme.

@ThomasinaJones check out Jason Manford's assembly bangers
I remember the same songs as you 😊

Morningtown Ride anyone?

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Someone's singing Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbayah
Someone's crying Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying Lord, kumbaya
Someone's crying Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Someone's praying Lord, kumbaya
Someone's praying Lord, kumbaya
Someone's praying Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

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.

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?

Theres a hole in my bucket

Ye canny push yer grannie aff the bus

Dinnae chuck yer pieces from a twenty-storey flat, a hundred hungry weans will testify tae that...

They enjoy it and find it quite funny! I use quite a few of the older songs and they go down well!

I have the brown Apusskidu book on my piano. When we cleared mums house I brought it from her piano where she played it for us as kids, to ours and now sing them with my youngest.

OMG you're all amazing - this thread is reminding me of so many more primary school era/80s kids' songs!

@Saz12 coz she's yer mammy's mammy!
And... the odds against it reaching earth are 99 tae 1