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From my Mum.....

Bee Baw Babbity, Babbity, Babbity,
Bee Baw Babbity, a laddie or a lassie,

I windna hae a lassie-o, a lassie-o, a lassie-o,
I windna hae a lassie-o,
I'd rather hae a wee laddie....

Bee Baw Babbity, Babbity, Babbity,
Bee Baw Babbity, a laddie or a lassie,
I windna hae a laddie-o, a laddie-o, a laddie-o,
I windna hae a laddie-o,
I'd rather hae a wee lassie...

Don't ask me where this one came from!

Come, come, come!
Remember you're a plum!
Never start a-worrying if things look glum.
No matter what the weather
Plums will always stick together.
Come, come, come;
Remember - you're a plum!


Joanna

Dance to your daddy, my little laddie
Dance to your daddy, my little man
Thou should have a fish and thou should have a fin
Thou should have a cuddling when the boat comes in
Thou should have a haddock baked in a pan
Dance to your daddy, my little man
When thou art a man and come to take a wife
Thou should wed a lass and love her all your life
She should be your lass and thou should be her man
Dance to your daddy, my little man

or

Dance to your Daddy
My little Laddie
Dance to your Daddy
My little Lamb
Thou shall have a fishy
in a little dishy
thou shall have a fishy
When the boat comes in

That reminded me Susan, my Mum used to sing that to us and I sang it to my baby Grandson last week....

Skye boat song, or Coulters Candy.
Both good Scottish songs

xx

Too- ra- loo- ra irish lullaby.
Was sang to us by mum.

I remember this being sung when I was a child

MY CURLY HEADED BABY

Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
We'll sit below the sky and sing a song to the moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon.
Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
Your daddy's in the cotton fields a-workin' late and soo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon.

So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
Does you want the moon to play with
Or the stars to run away with?
They'll come if you don't cry.
So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
In your mammy's arms be creepin'
And soon you'll be a-sleepin'
Lulla lulla lulla lulla lulla bye.

Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
I'll sing you fast asleep and love you so as I sing.
Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
Just tuck your head like little bird beneath its mammy's wing.

So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
Does you want the moon to play with
Or the stars to run away with?
They'll come if you don't cry.
So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
In your mammy's arms be creepin'
And soon you'll be a-sleepin'
Lulla lulla lulla lulla lulla bye.


Sung by Paul Robeson
From the film 'Big Fella' (1937)

My mum used to play the piano and sing when we were littel.

She OFTEN SANG;
THE LITTLE BOY THAT SANTA CLAUS FORGOT

I used to satnd at the side of the piano... tears drowning me, and sobbing as loud as she was singing......

when she finished, I used to cry.. singgg it... a... agaiinnn, mummy.... ?
I was so soft..... ;-0)

Deanna X

my songs were:

Yaw baibee 'as gorn darn the plug-ole.

(for anyone without a London accent, 'your baby has gone down the plug hole!! lol.)

nan used to sing 'scarlet ribbons' to mum when she was tiny, it makes mum cry now bless her.
L x

Carol in Dulwich,
Oh how I remember "Little Boy you've had a busy day"
"The little boy that Santa Claus forgot"
There were a lot of sad songs then that always brought tears to my eyes,and they all went on verse after verse.
The days long before TV,when I visited my gran and we sat in the firelight in her cosy living room,singing all the old songs.
Anyone remember all the words for "Little Old Lady passing by,catching everyone's eye"

At New Year we would sing...."The log was burning brightly,twas a night that would banish all sin,
for the bells were ringing the Old year out and the New Year in"

There were so many,and my gran knew all the words.
Brenda x x

I don't actually remember Mum singing to me only Dad and Nanna but I do remember that at bedtime she would say a poem which was...

The Sooteries are quiet now
And Sooty's going to bed
Upon his little pillow
He lays his sleepy head
But just before he goes to sleep
He weaves a magic spell
Magic! Magic! everyone
And off to bed aswell!
So if you're feeling sleepy
And can't hold up your head
It's Sooty's magic working
So off you go to bed!

I love you Mum
Gaynor :-) xxx

Wow..................was reading through your songs when the words 'golden slumbers' came into my mind. Sat and thought about it a while, and think I have the words right, of what my mother used to sing to me.

Golden slumber kiss your eyes,
Smiles await you when you rise.
Sleep,
pretty baby,
Do not cry,
And I'll sing you a lullaby.

Care you know not,
Therefore sleep,
While I o'er you watch do keep.
Sleep,
pretty darling,
Do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby

Norah

My mam used to sing:
I love a Lassie, a bonny bonny Lassie,
She's as sweet as the heather in the dell
She's as sweet as the heather, the bonny purple heather.
Mary, my scotch bluebell

To me as a child, she sang it just as tunelessly to my 2 girls, the elder is called Heather so she always thought the song was about her.

My friend would always sing

Where ere I go I take my Po
and a little bit of last nights echo
and when I've done I wipe my bum
in a little bit of last nights echo

she taught it to all my children , it was quite embarrassing when they sang it in the middle of a crowded bus

Pam xx

My grandad used to sing, well not a song as such but a rhyme

Oh Mary I dont feel well
Give me a noggin o whisky
Two pork chops
A fried egg
And Ill try and get it down without rounds of bread
Oh Mary I dont feel well

Marilyn

My dear mum used to rock me to sleep with:

Sweetest little fellow,
ev'rybody knows,
don't know what to call him,
but he's mighty like a rose.

Curly headed babbie,
eyes a-shining blue,
makes you think that Heaven,
is coming down to you.



Aahh......