What songs did you sing as a child?
@hockeygal4ever (10021)
United States
March 26, 2007 1:08pm CST
My kids LOVED to sing and listen to kid songs when they were growing up. I grew up singing camp songs and such. Yet today it seems the parents have no clue about the benefits of singing and teaching the kids through song!
What were some of the songs you learned as a kid?
I recall the obvious London Bridge and Brother John, etc. but some of the less known ones: a scouting song about the Cannibal King with the big nose ring, Baby Bumble Bee (I'm squishing up my baby bumble bee... lol) and some others.
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@missyd79 (3438)
• United States
27 Mar 07
OMG I can name so many songs, and my son loves to sing and he is very smart too because it usually only takes about 2 or 3 times for him to hear a song and he has most of the words...so i have to be careful what i play in the car. But as i kid I loved to sing baby bumble bee song, down by the bay where the watermelons grow...love that song, and do your ears hang low.
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@hockeygal4ever (10021)
• United States
27 Mar 07
LOL... loved do your ears hang low! Have you ever seen the Kids Songs tapes/cds? They'e awesome and teach the kids so much by song. My oldest had all of them and by 18 months was dancing and singing them all!!!!!!!
@hockeygal4ever (10021)
• United States
27 Mar 07
LOL... I forgot about the peanut song! You sound like a former girl scout too!?
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
28 Mar 07
Of course London Bridge! Jack and Jill, Three Blind Mice, Itsy Bitsy Spider, to name a few.
@Penguinsangel (3498)
• United States
30 Mar 07
I remember Baby Bumble song...hehe I don't even know where I learned that one.
But I think Brother John, London Bridge, Patty Cake, The Wheels on the Bus are the songs that I can remember really singing when I was younger.
Cute topic by the way!!
@kiera81 (37)
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8 Apr 12
I loved singing camp songs as a kid. As far as the nursery rhymes go, most kids don't know them and it's a shame. Nursery rhymes and the songs that go with them teach kids language patterns and rhyme. They help kids learn how to read.
@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
27 Mar 07
It is so long ago that I can hardly remember. I sang Brother John in French - Frere Jacques and I Know an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly along with many others. I had never heard of Baby Bumble Bee until I asked my grandaughter to sing a song for me and she sang that one. It just goes to show, that some of the old songs will never be forgotten. They will be handed down to generations to come.
