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Hi of Troy: here are two more children's parodies from "Cinderella dressed in yeller"
My bonnie leaned over the gas-tank,
The height of its content to see;
She struck a match to assist her --
Oh bring back my bonnie to me.
My father lies over the ocean,
My mother lies over the sea,
My daddy lies over my mummy,
And that's how they got little me.
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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..
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Purely in the interests of science you understand, I have purchased a packet of M&M's and a packet of Smarties for the purpose of comparison. .... The Smarties of course come in a tube, while the M&M's come in a bag.
I don't think I've ever seen Smarties in a tube - just in a box. And, re: different versions of treats: this weekend, I had a Caramilk bar that had been made in South Africa - instead of creamy caramel inside pockets of chocolate, it was a golden-ish-coloured bar of solid pieces, but it somehow managed to taste pretty much the same!
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Dear Bingley and boronia,
In other parts of the world, Smarties come in a tube, so you're both right. As I recall, Italian Smarties came in a tube. They come in a box in Canada. And Italian Smarties had blue Smarties long before Canadian Smarties did.
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Thank you, Bingley, dear sir, for so gallantly interposing yourself in the path of not one but two different kinds of candy so to very kindly answer the pressing query as to the distinctions between them. Rarely have I been the beneficiary of such noble and altruistic sacrifice. And *they say chivalry is dead....
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Personally, I think Smarties are made with a creamier chocolate than M & M's.
When I buy Smarties in the grocery store in Canada, they come in a box, but when I get them at the Duty Free they come in a large tube...about 1 1/2 inches in diameter and about 8 inches long.
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Max, do you have Treats in Zild? How do they compare with peanut M&Ms? There is a similar local sweet here called Cha-chas, which I must confess to a certain degree of fondness for (i.e., I scoff down a packet every chance I get  ). Bingley
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of troy, you might be interested in a book called "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" by Peter and Iona Opie. I haven't actually read it myself but at one time it was always being recommended as a sourcebook for the history of playground chants and so on.
Bingley
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Forgive me belMarduk, for resurecting this long dead thread but my six-year-old granddaughter and I wrote a new tappe la main yesterday and this thread is our only hope for publication. All you need for this production is a granddaughter, a grandfather and a queasy audience and a nearby desk. Permit me... ON THE ROAD writen by
milo and danielle
washington
(wide spread of hands) I thought I saw an elephant.
(paw scrach) I thought I saw a cat.
I thought I saw a dinner plate.
(head shake no.) Then I saw it wasn't that.
Oh...
(cradling arms) It was a little bitty squrril
(slap hands on desk) MASHED FLAT!
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