General Chat

We are the Ovaltineys, little girls and boys
Make your requests, we'll not refuse you
We are here just to amuse you
Would you like a song or story?
Will you share our joys?
At games and sports we're more than keen
No merrier children could be seen
Because we all drink Ovaltine
We're happy girls and boys.

can you remember little white bull--Tommy Steel
and Max bygraves toothbrush song and a mouse lived in a windmill in old amsterdam
does anyone know the words of the ovaltiney song please?
love Paula x

Carol, i remember quite a few on your list and I have just realised that my mum gave me a bag of records and they include two of mine.

I have "The teddy bear's picnic" and a children's songs one - not just short nusery rhymes but proper songs.

Colin!

That was a nasty slur by grown ups who did not like dragons!!

Puff was a lovely natured well behaved good dragon!

I was four when a student teacher with long blonde hair and a beard taught us that at school!

Hi all - seem to remember listening to all on Carol's list on Children' Favourites - think it was on a Saturday morning on steam radio - also remember Tuesday Childrens Hour with Auntie Vi at the piano (Vi Carson) for Nursery Sing Song. Jx

Little man you've had a busy day


Little man, you're cryin'
I know why you're blue
Someone took your kiddy-car away
Better go to sleep now
Little man, you've had a busy day

Johnny won your marbles
Tell you what we'll do
Dad'll get you new ones right away
Better go to sleep now
Little man, you've had a busy day

You've been playin' soldiers
The battle has been won
The enemy is out of sight
Come along there soldier
Put away your gun
The war is over for tonight

Time to stop your schemin'
Time your day was through
Can't you hear the bugle softly say
Time you should be dreamin'
Little man, you've had a busy day

lula bye bye.

lula lula lula lula bye bye
do you want the stars to play with
or the moon to run away with
they'll come if you don't cry

lula lula lula lula lula bye bye
in your mommies arms you’re sleeping
and soon dawn will come creeping lula
lula lula lula lula bye

My mum would sing this song.

The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
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He's the little boy that Santa Claus forgot,
And goodness knows, he didn't want a lot.


He sent a note to Santa
For some soldiers and a drum,
It broke his little heart
When he found Santa hadn't come.


In the street he envies all those lucky boys,
Then wanders home to last year's broken toys.
I'm so sorry for that laddie,
He hasn't got a daddy,
The little boy that Santa Claus forgot.


Spoken:
(You know, Christmas comes but once a year for every girl and boy,
The laughter and the joy they find in each brand new toy.
I'll tell you of a little boy that lives across the way...
This little fella's Christmas is just another day.
He's the little boy that Santa Claus forgot,
And goodness knows, he didn't want a lot.)


In the street he envies all those lucky boys,
Then wanders home to last year's broken toys.
I'm so sorry for that laddie,
He hasn't got a daddy,
The little boy that Santa Claus forgot.

Col, I remember that song too! my Mum always used to sing it to me and it made me feel sad too! However I didn't know it was about drugs. I suppose it's like Ring a Ring a roses which was about the plague or something. I didn't know that either.

All, I remember 2 songs my Mum sang

Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear
things he would ask me to tell me if he were here.
Scenes by the wayside, tales of the sea.
Storeis of Jesus tell them to me.

and

Jesus bids a shine then for all around.
Making kinds of darkness in this world are found.
Sin and want and sorrow, so we must shine.
You in your small corner and I in mine.

I may have got the words wrong in the second but does anyone know them?

Puff the Magic Dragon...always made me feel sad, think I read later that it was a song about drugs! not in my innocent childhood eyes it wasn't

Not so much a children's song ...but one from when I was young......

In the shoemaker's shop this refrain would never stop
As he tapped away, working all the day
(At his bench, there was he, just as busy as a bee)
Little time to lose for the boots and shoes

But his heart went "pop" inside the little shop
When a lovely girl set 'em all a-whirl
She had come to choose some pretty dancing shoes
And he heard her say in a charming way

Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing
Dancing, dancing all the day
Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing
Dancing all my cares away

(Then he tapped and he stitched for his fingers were bewitched)
And he sewed a dream into every seam
(Making shoes, oh, so neat just like magic on her feet)
And he hoped she'd know that he loved her so

But she danced, danced, danced as though she were entranced
Like a spinning top all around the shop
On her dainty feet she whirled into the street
And he heard her say as she danced away

Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing
Dancing all my cares away
Shoes to set my feet a-dancing, dancing
Dancing all my cares away

How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I must take a trip to California
And leave my poor sweetheart alone
If he has a dog, he won't be lonesome
And the doggie will have a good home

How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
I do hope that doggie's for sale

I read in the paper there are robbers (roof! roof!)
With flashlights that shine in the dark
My love needs a doggie to protect him
And scare them away with one bark

I don't want a bunny or a kitty
I don't want a parrot that talks
I don't want a bowl of little fishies
He can't take a goldfish for a walk

How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
The one with the waggley tail
How much is that doggie in the window? (arf! arf!)
I do hope that doggie's for sale
I do hope that doggie's for sale

How much is that doggy in the window

1. Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? / Henry Hall
2. The Ugly Duckling / Danny Kaye
3. On The Good Ship Lollipop / Shirley Temple
4. I know An Old Lady / Burl Ives
5. William Tell overture / Spike Jones & His City Slickers
6. The Woody Woodpecker Song / Mel Blanc
7. Me And My Teddy Bear / Rosemary Clooney
8. Thumbelina / Danny Kaye
9. I Taut I Taw A Puddy- Tat / Mel Blanc
10. Christopher Robin AT Buckingham Palace / Anne Stephens
11. Blue Tail Fly / Burl ives
12. The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine / Laurel And Hardy
13. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo / Dinah Shore
14. The Big Rock Candy Mountain / Burl Ives
15. Wonderful Copenhagen / Danny Kaye
16. The Laughing Policeman / Charles Penrose
17. A Four-Legged Friend / Roy Rogers
18. The Runaway Train / Vernon Dalhart
19. Little White Duck / Danny Kaye
20. Poll Wolly Doodle / Shirley Temple
21. The King's New Clothes / Danny Kaye
22. I'm Popeye The Sailor Man / Billy Costello
23. The Teddy Bears' Picnic / Henry Hall

another of my favourites was “Sparky’s Magic Piano”