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Aww Vera, my children always sang Jesus bid us shine.

Mum used to sing Go to sleep my baby close your pretty eyes I sing it now to my grandchildren.
Not that I can sing .

As a pre-school child I wouldn't go to sleep until my mum sang three songs for me:

Twinkle, twinkle little star
Jesus bids us shine
Go to sleep my baby

My mum, bless her, had the most tuneless voice possible, but I must have thought it was pretty good. Sadly I inherited mum's lack of tunefulness.

I don't remember my mum ever singing to me :-(

However, a song my dad used to sing was:

I've got an aunt named Ebeneezer Waterbottle,
She lives down in Burton on Trent
Every time she tries to ride a bicycle
She always gets the handlebars bent.

Steak and kidney, seven and a tanner's worth,
A little bit of old rope on a marlin-spike.


Just looked on line for the words - mine are a bit different :-D

A mouse lived in a windmill in old Amsterdam
A windmill with mice in its hardly surprising
They sang every morning how lucky I am etc etc

And

Hey Big Spender (unfortunately mum had a friend called Brenda who was rather large er you can imagine the rest when at 5 I decided to sing it to her)

My sweet mum singing 'London Pride' whilst playing the piano. It always makes me cry when I hear it. Happened again only just a few days ago when I was listening to the radio. <3

Oh my Mum wouldn't sing that last line Harry she always said tum, tum, tum.

All the usual nursery rhymes
Twinkle twinkle etc
How much is that doggy in the window
And, yes, lonely little petunia in an onion patch.
Little old lady passing by was another one.
Mum and Dad used to sing a lot, Mum played the piano.

Chin Chin Chinaman,
Bought a penny doll;
Washed it and dressed it,
And called it Pretty Poll;
Sent for the doctor,
The doctor couldn't come,
Cos he had a pimple,
On his bum, bum, bum.
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Actually it was my aunt who sang that,
my mother would never have stooped
to such vulgarity. but it got us off to
sleep.

(verily) happy days

So many Sue, but I do remember Mam always sang Deanna Durbin songs and Dad Bing Crosby numbers.

....and always lots of music played on the 'radiogram' :-D

(xx) Sylvia glad I could bring you happy memories :-D

My Grandad always sang to me. One song I particularly remember was called Forever and Ever. I recently found it on You tube, it took me way back to my childhood, I was only eight when Grandad died, but I loved him dearly. The song will always remind me of him.

Aww Mau.

Thank you so much for that.
Brings back happy memories for me.
It will be 7 years on the 28th of this month since we lost our mum.xx

"All the Little Pansy Faces
Growing in the garden there
Look at you with eyes of longing
For you are their lady fair
And when you come out to greet them
leaning like a queen above
All the little pansy faces
Look at you with eyes of love"

Just for you Sylvia :-D it was also recorded by Fats Waller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81djBtF0-jA :-D

edit and Eddie Cantor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDJehAUu0w


Mau x

My mum always sang a song to me when llittle but I can not remember all the words. It started with.

Little curly head in a high chair
Whats your orders for today
Little curly head in a high chair
I'll do anything you say


Any one ever heard it, or did she make it up xx

I'm a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch
And all I do is cry all day.

It obviously made an impression on me!! :-) :-)

What songs can you remember either your parents singing to you or you sang your self.