Do you know this song?

[Tazicket]

Sherry Lewis sang the Mairzy Doats song on Lamb Chop's Play Along, too. That's where I first heard it.

 

[douglisa]

I didn't buy a pickle, I bought some chewing gum
Chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum
Chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, chewing gum,
How I love chewing gum


My grandmother used to sing this to me when I was very small in the 1950s.

Okay, another name that toon.I love games.
Here is the name of the toon but do you know the song?
Dona Dona Dona

 

[GoofieRuthie]

I remember learning to sing Alouette in French. It was a fun cutesy song. Then we learned the translation.... LOL It totally loses something in translation.

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai la tête
Je te plumerai la tête
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai le bec (x2)
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai le cou (x2)
Et le cou - et le cou
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai les ailes (x2)
Et les ailes - et les ailes
Et le cou - et le cou
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai le dos (x2)
Et le dos - et le dos
Et les ailes - et les ailes
Et le cou - et le cou
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai les pattes (x2)
Et les pattes - et les pattes
Et le dos - et le dos
Et les ailes - et les ailes
Et le cou - et le cou
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai la queue (x2)
Et la queue - et la queue
Et les pattes - et les pattes
Et le dos - et le dos
Et les ailes - et les ailes
Et le cou - et le cou
Et le bec - et le bec
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o



English Translation


Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your head
I will pull the feathers off your head
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your beak
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your neck
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your wings
And the wings - and the wings
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your back
And the back - and the back
And the wings - and the wings
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your legs
And the legs - and the legs
And the back - and the back
And the wings - and the wings
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your tail
And the tail - and the tail
And the legs - and the legs
And the back - and the back
And the wings - and the wings
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o

 

[douglisa]

(Running around the house screaming trying to get that immage out of my head)

 

[goofyernmost]

I've never understood that song, and now... I still don't...

It was a much simpler time!

 

[nhrenee]

I remember learning to sing Alouette in French. It was a fun cutesy song. Then we learned the translation.... LOL It totally loses something in translation.

Alouette, gentille alouette
Alouette, je te plumerai
Je te plumerai la tête
Je te plumerai la tête
Et la tête - et la tête
Alouette - alouette
O, o, o, o, o

Lark, gentle lark
Lark, I will pull your feathers off
I will pull the feathers off your tail
And the tail - and the tail
And the legs - and the legs
And the back - and the back
And the wings - and the wings
And the neck - and the neck
And the beak - and the beak
And the head - and the head
Lark, lark
O, o, o, o, o[/B]

Omg! My bf and I sang that song in a school talent contest in 4th grade!

 

[I Love Pluto]

As the kiddie song expert (see sig), I'd say you're all doing a great job on these songs.

I'm a recently retired music teacher - Here are some weird things that the kids of today still read & hear:

In our 3rd grade text - "She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain" - one verse is "Oh, we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes...." The kids really liked the song, so we sang it without that verse.

In rhe 2nd & 5th grade books - "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" - the song centers around "the old grey goose is dead".

With all of the hype in today's world about books being banned for questionable content, I'm surprised that they haven't banned these music books.

 

[douglisa]

I hope the never do. It is part of our history. There are so many things that can conjure up memories....music is definitly one of them. My grandma and mother would sing me old songs. I was thinking about them today, about old stories they would tell me too. Just thinking of some of those things is like a big hug from my grandma who is no longer w/ us.
I was trying to remember a story that she used to tell but I can not remember all of it, neither can my mom.
It starts off something about; Little orphan Annie came today, to scrub the dishes and sweep the cobwebs away.
Anyone know the rest of this story?

 

[paigevz]

The Gobbleuns'll Git Ya ef Ya Don't Watch Out!

That's the book that's in.

And when the floor is swept and the dishes put away
we all gather 'round to hear what Orphant Annie has to say
She talks about the witches and the spooks all about
and the gobbleuns 'at gits ya ef ya don't watch out!

Or something like that.

Has several stories in it. Some kid doesn't listen to his parents, and he finds two great big legs a'standin' right behind him
his mammy heered him holler and his pappy heered him bawl
but when they rushed upstairs he wasn't there at all

and then something about looking in the chimney and looking all about, but all they found was jist his pants and roundabout

Spooky story, I read it to my kids at Halloween for a while.

 

[jumoo044]

My mother used to sing me a song about sliding down a rain barrel, or a cellar door...something like that. Anyone know that song?

 

[momsal]

how about the song

Would you like to swing on a star carry moonbeams home in a jar



or.........

Great big gobs of greasy grimy gofer guts

 

[douglisa]

The Gobbleuns'll Git Ya ef Ya Don't Watch Out!

That's the book that's in.

And when the floor is swept and the dishes put away
we all gather 'round to hear what Orphant Annie has to say
She talks about the witches and the spooks all about
and the gobbleuns 'at gits ya ef ya don't watch out!

Or something like that.

Has several stories in it. Some kid doesn't listen to his parents, and he finds two great big legs a'standin' right behind him
his mammy heered him holler and his pappy heered him bawl
but when they rushed upstairs he wasn't there at all

and then something about looking in the chimney and looking all about, but all they found was jist his pants and roundabout

Spooky story, I read it to my kids at Halloween for a while.

YES!! YES!! Thats it! We had that book and then somehow it disapeared. Thank you So much!

 

[douglisa]

My mother used to sing me a song about sliding down a rain barrel, or a cellar door...something like that. Anyone know that song?

Oh playmate, come out and play with me; and bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree.
Slide down my rain barrel, and down my cellar door
Then we'll be jolly friends forever more.

I'm sorry playmate, I can not play with you my dollies got the flu, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.
Cant slide down your rain barrel, or down your cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends forever more!


I forgot that one, thank you.
I wish I could go see my mom this weekend. This is making me miss her!

I just think it's so important to pass these things on to our kids. My mom is impressed by how many childrens songs and rhymes my youngest knows and sings. None of us other kids of hers passed them down. I think when my mom was a child perhaps parents did it more because there were no TVs to entertain, they had to be the entertainers. So many of the stories and songs are caustionary tales or indicative of what was going on in that part of history. In my biology class we were talking about plagues, there was a nursery rhyme that was in the book that haunts me.

It goes;
I knew a little bird it's name was enza, I opened up the window and in flew enza. Little girls would chant that when jumping rope.

 

[douglisa]

I found the whole verse of Orphan Annie.

Little Orphan Annie has come to our house to stay. She washes cups and saucers and brushes crumbs away. She shooes the chickens off the porch, and dusts the hearth and sweeps. She builds the fires and bakes the bread and earns her board and keep. And all us other children, when the supper things are done, we sit around the kitchen fire and have the mostest fun. And we listen to the witches tales that Annie talks about. And the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.
Once there was a little boy who wouldn't say his pryers. And when he went to bed one night, away upstairs, his mamma heard him holler and his daddy heard him bawl. And when they turned the kivers down he wasn't there at all. They seeked him up the rafter room, cubby hole and press, and they seeked him up the chimney flu and everywhere I guess. But all they ever found of him was his clothes scattered about and the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.
And one time there was a little girl who would always laugh and grin, and make fun of everyone, even her blood and kin. One day when there was company, and old folks were there, she mocked them and shocked them and said she didn't care. Just as she kicked her heels and turned to run and hide, two great big black things were standing by her side. They snatched her through the ceiling before she knew what she was about, and the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.
And Little Orphan Annie says when the blaze is blue and the lamp wick flutters and the wind goes woooooo, You'd better mind your daddy and mommy and your teacher fond and dear, and help the poor and needy ones and dry an orphans tears. Just help the poor and needy ones that linger about or the goblins will get you if you don't watch out.

 

[maddiemouse]

No, it's a British nursery rhyme that was done over as a popular American jazz song in the 1940's. It was a HUGE hit in the US and the UK during WW2.

My parents had my oldest siblings during the War, and Mom used to sing this to me as well as "Three Little Fishies" which was also a popular radio hit.

Out in the meadow in an iddy biddy pool
Swam three liddle fishies and a mommy fishie too
Swim said the mommy fishy
Swim if you can
And they swam and they swam right over the dam

Only, here's how my mom sang it.

Out in the meadow in an iddy biddy pooooo
Fam three liddle fiddies and a momma fiddie too
FIM! said the momma fiddie, FIM if you can!
And they fam and they fam right over the dam.

No, she didn't have a speech impediment, and it was music to her 5 year old child's ears.

 

[momsal]

I also remember that there was a funny song using the names of the states

 

[jumoo044]

Thanks, Douglisa! I couldn't remember the lyrics.
I remember the song about the 3 little fishies. And the moonbeams in a jar. And greasy, grimy gopher guts!
Mutilated monkey meat! LOL!
Remember Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree? We sang that in school. We had to act out each line.

 

[douglisa]

Thanks, Douglisa! I couldn't remember the lyrics.
I remember the song about the 3 little fishies. And the moonbeams in a jar. And greasy, grimy gopher guts!
Mutilated monkey meat! LOL!
Remember Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree? We sang that in school. We had to act out each line.

Could you recite moonbeams in a jar and grimy gopher guts? Forgot those
Also, would like to know under the spreading oak tree, never heard that one.
Thanks a bunch, Lisa

 

[jumoo044]

Under the spreading chestnut tree
Where I held you on my knee
We were as happy as could be
Under the spreading chestnut tree

 

[paigevz]

My mother used to sing me a song about sliding down a rain barrel, or a cellar door...something like that. Anyone know that song?

Yes!

I don't want to play in your yard,
I don't like you anymore,
You'll be sorry when you see me,
Sliding down our cellar door,
You can't holler down our rainbarrel,
You can't climb our apple tree,
I don't want to play in your yard,
If you won't be good to me.


My mother's mother sang it to her, and she sang it to me.