What songs did you sing at school as a child???

Question

I sang from a hymn book in assembly called 'Come and Praise' but when we had our music lesson we sang things like She'll be coming round the mountain' 'Grand old green machine' 'Catch a fallng star' and other songs for specific events like harvest festival.

Wht did you sing as a child??

Answer 1

Jingle Bells 60 times before the Christmas concert!

Answer 2

Great question! I attended Kindergarten through 3rd grade in the same school, and we had musical programs every year for the parents. The school I attended after that didn't have such programs. I'd love to know what music book they used in that school but haven't taken the time to track it down.

I remember singing these songs:

Kindergarten
My Country Tis of Thee (America)
This Land Is Your Land
Pussywillow Song
Letter People (reading program) songs - each letter had a little ditty written about it ("I'm Mr. M, with a munchy mouth...")

1st-3rd Grades
Mama Paquita
Scratch Me Back
Michigan, My Michigan
Up With People
Señor Don Gato
The Cat Came Back
Horsey, Horsey
The Ghost of John
Stirring My Brew
The Happy Wanderer
Down in the Valley
We Are Marching To Pretoria
Red River Valley
Happy Song
Never Smile at a Crocodile
Sing, Sing a Song
Kum ba ya
Frere Jacques
Michael Row the Boat Ashore (when we learned about singing in rounds)

Oh, I did just remember learning a couple of songs in 5th grade at the other school:

Give My Regards to Broadway
Bless the Beasts and the Children

Thanks for letting me reminisce!!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I went to French school as a kid so we sang things like Frère Jacques, Allouette, Sur le Pont D'avignon and stuff like that. At Christmas they would make us sing a really lame one called Petit Papa Noël. *shudders* When I got older I joined a real choir.

Answer 5

I had a rekord player and a 45 rekord of Yellow Submarine. I also had a Davey Crockett rekord and Mickey Mouse Disco and The Muppet Show rekords.

Answer 6

Going to California by Led Zepp

Answer 7

Puff the Magic Dragon and the other standard songs

and my all time fave

The Ugly Bug Ball

let's go let's go to the ugly bug ball to the ball to the ball and happy time we'll have there one and all at the ugly bug ball.

Answer 8

in assembly we sang hymns like,

onward christian soldiers

others were :

coming round the mountain
under a shady coconut tree, coco coco nut coco coco nut tree !!
wind the bobbin up, wind the bobbin up,

Answer 9

Early one morning. sweet lass of richmond hill the road to the
isles, d'ken john peel, the ash grove, where 'ere you walk,
Bobby shaftoe, early one morning, oh madam i will give to you
the keys of canterbury, waltzing matilda, John browns' body,
Danny boy, what shall we do with the drunken sailor
Jerusalem, oh no john, no john, no john, no. with your musket
pipe & drum, Loch lomond, blow the wind southerly,
Where are you going to, all you big steamers.
Not a bad lot off the top of my head, for a 70 year old, eh?

Answer 10

Morning has broken

wind the bobbin up

The lord of the dance

Sing hosanna

And a song don't know the title,it goes a bit like this.........

I'm gonna jump down ,turn around pick a bale of cotton

Gonna jump down turn around pick a bale a day...............