Re: My bonnie lies over the ocean..
Yes, i thought so, too.
its sad-- a long tradition of song is disappearing.. for 300 years (circa 1650--1950) children have song the song.. and now, in a generation, gone!
my kids know some of the the songs i have post here, but not all of them.. they grew up with TV (and MTV) and bubblegum rock and all the old songs are being lost
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Hang down your head, tom dooley
hang down your head and cry,
hang down your head tom dooley
poor boy, you're going to die!
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the first song i remember learning was
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin' forth to bring me home.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
coming forth to bring me home
i looked over the jordan
and what did i see?
coming forth to bring me home
a band of angels come towards me
coming forth to bring me home!
i remember distincly, chariot was char e o not char e ott..
i remember learning this while my mother was in hospital, for two weeks just before the birth of my sister (she had complications) i was just 2 and half-- and thought it a strange song.. i though a chariot was some kind of cheerio, the breakfast cerial..
