Silly songs you remember from early childhood

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Mr Gasp is just running through a few of those on Spotify.

So far we've had:

Right Said Fred (made me sad, hearing dear Bernard Cribbins )
Nelly the Elephant
Loving you has made me bananas
Run Rabbit Run

I'm hoping for A Windmill in Old Amsterdam soon.

Any other suggestions?

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
All down her back, back, back.
She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty pence, pence, pence,
To watch the boys, boys, boys,
Climb up the fence, fence, fence.
They climbed so high, high, high,
They reached the sky, sky, sky,
They didn't come down, down, down,
'Till the fourth of July, July, July.

Our headmistress hated this song: because it was the boys climbing the fence, and not the girls. This was a pet hate of hers, especially in the ancient reading books we had: it was always the boys out having the good time, while the girls were at home helping Mother. It annoyed her so much, she used to make us swap the boys' and girls' names when we read these books.

Happy birthday to you,
I went to the zoo.
I saw a fat monkey,
and I thought it was you!

Terry Keeps His Clips On.

😂😂

Frankie Howard did a song about a fish that swam over the dam, he made lots of weird noises as sound effects. I think the fish got eaten by either a shark or a bigger fish.

Also, How Much is that Doggie in the Window.

😆

My Brother... Terry Scott.
Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder. Can't remember who sang it.

My old man's a dustman

Allan Sherman.

I remember both those songs really well from Junior Choice with Ed Stewart, "Stewpot". Heard them pretty much every week.😀

I like Rolf Harris's songs - Jake the peg, court of king caractacus, two little boys, tie me kangaroo down sport
Obviously not the best person to have children listening to these days but I did like the music

How Much is That Doggy in The Window
Any Old Iron
Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow
Daisy Daisy
In a Cottage in A Wood (a little deer by the window stood)
Katie (k-k-k-Katie)
Three Little Fishies (and a mama fishy too)

I'm a Pink toothbrush, you're a blue toothbrush.

Never smile at a crocodile...

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

Ernie, the fastest milk man

Grocer Jack

Two little boys

Yellow submarine

Londons burning

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree

Dance, dance wherever you may be

Mouldy old dough

Any old iron

Catch a falling star

What noise annoys a lobster

How much is that doggy in the window

Ten green bottles

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

I'm leaning on a lamppost

Lollipop oh lolli lolli lolli

Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird

My ding a ling

I forgot

Puff the magic dragon

And:
123, mother caught a flea
She put him in the teapot to make a cup of tea, the flea jumped out, mother gave a shout, in came a policeman with his shirt hanging out.

Just to say there is a 'Return to Camp Granada' sequel too, where darling little brother has also graduated to camp age...

another one: Billy Goat Gruff..

Lots of memories on this thread

This was a weird one but I remember all the words.

Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellabogen By The Sea.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9SChjqE07Q

My dad used to sing in it the car whenever we went on holiday.

There was this skipping rhyme:

Down by the river, down by the sea,
Johnny broke a bottle and blamed it on me.
I told ma, ma told pa,
Johnny got a spanking, so ha ha ha!
How many spanks did Johnny get?
One, two, three...

I am now making a playlist after this thread saved a car journey last week! Am adding in some they might be giants, and some Laurie Berkner Band somgs

any other suggestions ?

I’ve remembered another - The National Anthem of the Ancient Britons. It’s another one my dad used to sing to us - though just parts of it.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius Mum used to sing that one, with slight variation. I taught my friends when the school choir was singing Men of Harlick much to their amusement 🤣

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep!

Do your ears hang low?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

Lovely thread. I agree with most of these.
Anneka Rice will probably play many of these on Junior Choice on Radio 2 on Christmas Day, 10am!

And also love it that a pp mentioned La Mer by Stilgoe and Skellern. Had a big crush on Peter Skellern for years, because of his song You're A Lady.

Just realised that this is an old thread and I already commented on it in April 🙂