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Favourite songs from your childhood/primary school days

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  • 08-02-2014 2:39pm
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    Chocolate
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    Looking for some suggestions for songs to sing with my little ones.
    We have the Disney CDs which they love but they also love singing songs that I remember learning in primary school so I'm racking my brains trying to think of some more...

    These are some of the ones I can remember:
    Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs
    My Grandfather's Clock
    Two Little Boys
    Trup Trup a Chapaillín
    City of Chicago


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    C.K Dexter Haven
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    Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques
    Dormez vous? Dormez vous?
    Sonnez les matines
    Sonnez les matines
    Din din don
    Din din don


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    The Princess Bride
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    "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly"-a funny song and gets children to have a laugh, which too many people don't seem to know how to do anymore.


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    Donkey Oaty
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    One man went to mow!

    Don't forget to include the "woof", as in the version below:



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    Vojera
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    Chocolate wrote: »
    Trup Trup a Chapaillín
    I loved that song! That and Trasna na dTonnta were my favourites. Oh, and Baidin Fheilimi, even though it was really sad.


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    9959
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    'I FEEL LOVE' by Donna Summer

    Really catchy tune with fantastic lyrics, my sister and her friends used to sing it in unison whilst playing hopscotch.


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    C.K Dexter Haven
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    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly"-a funny song and gets children to have a laugh, which too many people don't seem to know how to do anymore.

    I have the record :P

    Seriously, a long play 45;)


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    DoozerT6
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    Moonshadow by Cat Stevens.

    "The Gypsy Rover came over the hill...."

    A Little Peace, the Eurovision song from 1982.


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    Irish Guitarist
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    When I was about four my older brother bought me a cassette of childrens songs called All Aboard. I loved it and used to listen to it for hours. Here's the track listing -http://www.discogs.com/Various-All-Aboard/release/1194647

    I gave it to my nephew when I was about sixteen and thought I had 'grown out' of it. I regret it now because I'd like to give it a listen again. I don't think it's available anymore but this is fairly similar - http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6642552/a/childhood+days.htm


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    Aglomerado
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    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    I have the record :P

    Seriously, a long play 45;)

    We had it on 45 too when I was growing up! It's probably still in my parents' house along with all the others I loved such as:

    A Spoonful of Sugar
    Lily the Pink
    Little White Bull
    All Bound for Morningtown
    :)


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    Professey Chin
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    I have sudden flashbacks of being in the National Childrens Choir :o


    From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
    She climbs flowery mountain, o'r hills and by the shore
    She's mighty tall and handsome, and she's known quite well by all
    She's a regular combination of the Wabash Cannonball.

    :pac:


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    uch
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    Beidh Aonach Amárach

    21/25



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