Which children songs are your favorite?

[kevbo]

"This Old Man"

 

[kevbo]

Ring Around the Rosies?
Pocket full of Posies?
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down?

 

[kevbo]

Kids nowadays don't sing this song.

Well, it's the American way of singing it

 

[gsdx]

"This Old Man"

That was Columbo's favourite song, too.

My fave:

Ohhhhhhh, the liquor was spilt on the barroom floor
And the bar was closed for the night
When a little brown mouse came out of his house
And sat in the pale moonlight.

Wellllllllllllll, he lapped up the liquor on the barroom floor
And on his haunches he sat.
And all night long you could hear him roa-a-a-a-a-a-a-r,
"Bring on the pussy cat!"

 

[kevbo]

I also like "Drunken Sailor"

 

[kevbo]

do people actually know what this songs about. the Black Death (plague).

ERRRR. WRONG. Try again.

 

[kevbo]

Are you serious that's a kids song?

I knew it pretty well as a kid

 

[gsdx]

Jack and Jill

(Abridged)

Jack and Jill went up the hill.
Each had a buck and a quarter.
Jill came down with two and half.
Did you think they went up for water?

 

[kevbo]

Piggy stole the cookie from the cookie jar...

 

[gsdx]

Great, green gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts,
Simulated monkey meat. Little birdies' stinky feet.
Great, green gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts,
And me without my spoon!

 

[ronboy]

I loved this song from when I was a child. I've even included the sheet music in the attachment...

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Leave some gums for me
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!​

 

[tonysw]

Teddy Bear's Picnic. I had it as Ring Tone on my Mobile (Cell) Phone. When it went off people would giggle. They all remembered it too.

 

[G-Lexington]

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
His name is my name too...

That inane ditty gets stuck in my brain.

There's those songs that have the "profanity-not-profanity" in them. The main one growing up was...was it Miss Suzy?

Miss Suzy had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Suzy went to heaven
The steamboat went to...

...HELL-o operator
Please get me number nine
And if you disconnect me
I'll kick you in...

...BEHIND the 'frigerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Suzy sat upon it
And it went right up her...

...ASK me no more questions
I'll tell you no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their...

...FLIES are in the meadow
Bees are in the park
The boys and girls are kissing
In the d-a-r-k
D-a-r-k
D-a-r-k, dark!

...why do I still remember that whole thing?

Lex

 

[kevbo]

Don't worry, Lex. I knew the whole thing, too...

 

[leaves]

Baby mine

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[star-warrior]

We have a mobile that has twinkle twinkle little star for the bairn. He resolutely ignores it though...

Incy wincy spider...
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
ten million green bottles on the wall....
heave ho, drunken sailor...
there were ten in the bed and the little one said...
rockaby baby...

 

[kevbo]

"I'm a Little Teapot" anyone?

 

[star-warrior]

Are you really short and stout?

 

[kevbo]

Well, here is my handle, here is my spout

 

[lovetaurus]

My favorite children song is
"Somewhere over the rainbow"