# Songs you sang in school **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188 "2018-04-10T22:47:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/101 "2019-11-02T22:50:25Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > Cockles and Mussels, an Irish folk song. In Dublin’s fair city, where girls are so pretty, I first set my eye on sweet Molly Malone. As she wheeled her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying “Cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/102 "2019-11-02T23:04:24Z")
When I was in grades 1-3, the nuns would play a record of songs that were A.A. Milne poems set to music (either from _When We Were Very Young_ or _Now We Are Six_ (maybe both). Standouts included: The Changing of the Guard (_They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace/Christopher Robin went down with Alice_) Vespers (_Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed/Droops over little hands little gold head/Hush!Hush! Whisper, who dares?/Christopher Robin is saying his prayers._) Disobedience (_James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree/Took good care of his mother, though he was only three_) There was also one about a King wanting some butter on his bread at breakfast, but the cow wanted to go to bed, and tried to argue that marmalade would be better. I can’t remember the name of that one, but I did learn what a porringer was. (Also, is an Alderney a breed of milk cow? Or the stable/barn where the cows get milked?) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/103 "2019-11-03T00:01:18Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > _clap clap_ NGO Some day I’m going to start an anti-syphilis nonprofit, and that’ll be its name. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/104 "2019-11-03T01:39:05Z")
What would you call one that concentrates on gonorrhea? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/105 "2019-11-03T03:06:27Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > What would you call one that concentrates on gonorrhea? No, but we had a song about diarrhea: Ex. (set to baseball) Sliding into first and your pants begin to burst, diarrhea, diarrhea. (there are verses about each base) Some thing it’s funny but it’s really good and yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/106 "2019-11-03T03:45:56Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > There was also one about a King wanting some butter on his bread at breakfast, but the cow wanted to go to bed, and tried to argue that marmalade would be better. I can’t remember the name of that one, but I did learn what a porringer was. > > (Also, is an Alderney a breed of milk cow? Or the stable/barn where the cows get milked?) That’s _The Kings Breakfast._ The King asked the Queen And the Queen asked the Dairymaid “Could we have some butter for the Royal slice of Bread”? I don’t know about an Alderney - but I do know that it is one of the Channel Islands - which include Jersey and Guernsey, so I’d guess you are probably on the right track. (PS - I can also quote _James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree_ - in full, in a very loud and annoying voice. Yes, I am seven years old - still). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/107 "2019-11-03T04:12:46Z")
From the midwest (Illinois and Wisconsin), mid '70s, to the melody of _Strangers in the Night_: Strangers in the night Exchanging rubbers This one is too tight I’ll try another This one is too loose But it will hold the juuuuuuuuice I will also note that we sang this at the top of our lungs at age 9 or so, before we actually knew about sex. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/108 "2019-11-03T04:49:57Z")
I remember a lot of these songs, but I think I learned most of them from my mother, who sang to us a lot. A few from school - _The Maple Leaf Forever_ was a regular one. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I didn’t hear this one in school but had it on a record of childrens’ songs. This song seriously bummed me out! For those unfamiliar, [here](https://genius.com/Fred-penner-the-cat-came-back-lyrics) are the lyrics, which describe the many ways people try to “get rid of” this poor cat. The [NFB animated short](http://www.nfb.ca/film/the-cat-came-back/) is very funny, and won’t bum you out at all! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/109 "2019-11-03T10:16:29Z")
Anyone remember “Casey and Murphy”? One day I was singing that in the back seat of the car. My father turned around and gave me a smack that I can still feel to this day. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/110 "2019-11-03T20:33:53Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > That’s _The Kings Breakfast._ > > The King asked the Queen > And the Queen asked the Dairymaid > “Could we have some butter for the Royal slice of Bread”? > > I don’t know about an Alderney - but I do know that it is one of the Channel Islands - which include Jersey and Guernsey, so I’d guess you are probably on the right track. Yeah, I found a Wikipedia article about Alderney cattle that mentioned the breed is now extinct, Alderney dairy cows having been moved to Guernsey when the Channel Islands were occupied by the Germans during WWII. Some were interbred with the local cow breeds, and the remaining ones were eaten by the Germans when the supply lines became problematic. Fuckin’ Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/111 "2019-11-04T10:14:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Yeah, I found a Wikipedia article about Alderney cattle that mentioned the breed is now extinct, Alderney dairy cows having been moved to Guernsey when the Channel Islands were occupied by the Germans during WWII. Some were interbred with the local cow breeds, and the remaining ones were eaten by the Germans when the supply lines became problematic. > > Fuckin’ Nazis. Just when you start thinking ‘the Nazis weren’t all bad’ - they get the bloody cows as well. Fuckin’ Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188/112 "2019-11-04T11:41:27Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > (PS - I can also quote _James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree_ - in full, in a very loud and annoying voice. Yes, I am seven years old - still). Took great care of his mother, though he was only three? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-sang-in-school/812188.md?page=5)