Favorite Children's Songs

Houdini · Sep 9, 2014

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
That’s all you have on your business-like mind
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
How can you be so blind
sung in counterpoint:
Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You’ll probably go far
Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you’d stop and see
How beautiful they are

Inchworm as sung by Danny Kaye
in the movie Hans Christian Andersen

Houdini in Omaha

prufrock21 · Sep 9, 2014

Louie, Louie, original version.

HollyGolightly · Sep 9, 2014

I had a record with this on it, I was young enough to still be an only child - so pre-1975. And I would play it over and over, walking around in a circle with my 4 imaginary friends. We'd take turns being the different animals. My mom must have thought I was insane.

DiO'Bolic · Sep 9, 2014

“Ring Around The Rosie.” Nothing like a good ditty about the Black Death to bring out the kid in you. :ghostface:

Houdini · Sep 9, 2014

DiO'Bolic said:
“Ring Around The Rosie.” Nothing like a good ditty about the Black Death to bring out the kid in you.

Ashes ashes we all fall down! :ghostface:

Houdini in Omaha

arista · Sep 9, 2014

The Wheels on the bus.

Sundrop · Sep 9, 2014

Puff The Magic Dragon

FlakeNoir · Sep 9, 2014

Sundrop said:
Puff The Magic Dragon

OMG... this song makes me well up when I sing it to my baby... (and past babies) with my youngest baby, I had to actually make up a new ending to it. (It was probably for me as much as it was for him.) :a11:

Spideyman · Sep 9, 2014

"it's Not Easy Being Green"- Kermit the Frog

Dana Jean · Sep 9, 2014

I had my own medley of songs I sang to my kids at bedtime. And looking back at them, they were all pretty much total bummers.

GNTLGNT · Sep 10, 2014

...Itsy Bitsy Spider...or as my kids called it...Ipsy Bippsy Spider...

Houdini · Sep 10, 2014

GNTLGNT said:
...Itsy Bitsy Spider...or as my kids called it...Ipsy Bippsy Spider...

Sung with all the hand motions right???

Houdini in Omaha

Walter Oobleck · Sep 10, 2014

I went to the animals fair...the birds and the beasts were there...the big baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair...the monkey he got drunk, he bit the elephants's trunk...the elephant sneezed and fell on his knees, and that was the end of the monk!

Away In a Manger
This old man
If I Had A Hammer
Pop Goes the Weasel
Seventy-Six Trombones
The Teapot
This Land is Your Land
Tulips are Blooming (in Holland...Michigan, tulips bright-colored and gay!)
Zum Gali Gali

Kurben · Sep 10, 2014

GNTLGNT said:
...Itsy Bitsy Spider...or as my kids called it...Ipsy Bippsy Spider...

Gotta be the one we call Imse vimse spindel in Swedish. My fave though was a son about a Trollmother that was sing a lullaby to her kids. She was singing the most beautiful words that she know Hoahajajbuff, Hoahajajbuff, hoahajajajbuffbuff. Worked every time. Still a fave when i cant sleep.

GNTLGNT · Sep 10, 2014

Houdini said:
Sung with all the hand motions right???

Houdini in Omaha

...I broke fingers that way... :laugh:

Spideyman · Sep 10, 2014

There Was An Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly...

Walter Oobleck · Sep 10, 2014

The woman of the house had a mouse in her blouse...
well did the mouse get out?
well I think he did. (little known song/local color)

Old McDonald had a farm...e-i-e-o

The Farmer in the Dell

Scratch · Sep 11, 2014

Great green gobbs of greasy grimy gofer guts
Mutillated monkey meat
Little birdys dirty feet
French fried eyeballs floating in a pool of blood
and I forgot my fork
But I got my spoooooooon
slurrrrrrrrrrp

McDonalds is my kind of place
They feed you rattle snakes
Stuff french fries up your nose
Cold shakes between your toes
And the last time that I was there
They fried my underwear
McDonalds is my kind of place
My kind of place!

Oh don't you laugh when a hearse goes by
'Cause someday you too will die
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
And toss you down about six feet
Then all goes well for about a week
Until the casket begins to leak
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play peaknucle
on your snout
And blood seeps out
like ketchup through bread
That's what happens when you are deeeeaaaaad!

I once had a monkey
Lived in the country
Fed him on ginger bread
Along came a choo choo
knocked him coo coo
And now my little monkey's dead

Hmmm. My songs are a bit different than 'yalls.

Dana Jean · Sep 11, 2014

Scratch said:
Great green gobbs of greasy grimy gofer guts
Mutillated monkey meat
Little birdys dirty feet
French fried eyeballs floating in a pool of blood
and I forgot my fork
But I got my spoooooooon
slurrrrrrrrrrp

McDonalds is my kind of place
They feed you rattle snakes
Stuff french fries up your nose
Cold shakes between your toes
And the last time that I was there
They fried my underwear
McDonalds is my kind of place
My kind of place!

Oh don't you laugh when a hearse goes by
'Cause someday you too will die
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
And toss you down about six feet
Then all goes well for about a week
Until the casket begins to leak
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play peaknucle
on your snout
And blood seeps out
like ketchup through bread
That's what happens when you are deeeeaaaaad!

I once had a monkey
Lived in the country
Fed him on ginger bread
Along came a choo choo
knocked him coo coo
And now my little monkey's dead

Hmmm. My songs are a bit different than 'yalls.

I remember these!

king family fan · Sep 11, 2014

Wheels on the bus
I am alittle tea pot

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