mikemiller
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T This Old Man - heard it sung on the Tivoli... not the official version though!
A-Z Of Nursery Rhymes
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U Underneath The Spreading Chestnut Tree - I think I make my own words up to this after the initial line!
mikemiller
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Seem to remember Pike doing a version of that, with daft actions , in an episode of "Dad's Army", to keep the rest of crew entertained when they were trapped in a cellar. Stupid Boy!
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V "Vio-vio-vio-la" - as we knew it at school, another rhyme with actions (playing musical instruments), atlhough it is officially called "Music Man", or similar . Also has been sung in modified form as a terrace chant. Not sure if a version was ever sung on the Tivoli, but Norwich fans used to sing "Mick, Mick, Mick, Mick, Mick Maguire", about the Canaries midfielder who later became a PFA official.
There is also "Vintery, Mintery" - an American (?) nonsense rhyme . Mentions "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" in it. Think that's where the film title comes from. Never heard anybody saying / singing the rhyme over here though. (It's on YouTube).
Just checked - can't remember it, but apparently at least part of the rhyme is chanted in the film.
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V "Vio-vio-vio-la" - as we knew it at school, another rhyme with actions (playing musical instruments), atlhough it is officially called "Music Man", or similar . Also has been sung in modified form as a terrace chant. Not sure if a version was ever sung on the Tivoli, but Norwich fans used to sing "Mick, Mick, Mick, Mick, Mick Maguire", about the Canaries midfielder who later became a PFA official.
There is also "Vintery, Mintery" - an American (?) nonsense rhyme . Mentions "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" in it. Think that's where the film title comes from. Never heard anybody saying / singing the rhyme over here though. (It's on YouTube).
Just checked - can't remember it, but apparently at least part of the rhyme is chanted in the film.
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Never heard of either of those, Mike, although the Music Man is always a favourite.
Sixpence I loved the fact he wore a 'nightie' to run around town in!
X This has me stumped unless anyone else can come up with one?
Y Yankee Doodle Dandy - who had either a hat or a pony called Macaroni (I never quite knew which) - or, of course, he might have called the feather he stuck in his cap Macaroni.
Sixpence I loved the fact he wore a 'nightie' to run around town in!
X This has me stumped unless anyone else can come up with one?
Y Yankee Doodle Dandy - who had either a hat or a pony called Macaroni (I never quite knew which) - or, of course, he might have called the feather he stuck in his cap Macaroni.
mikemiller
Vital Football Hero
X "X, Y and Tumbledown Z" is on YouTube. Think it is an American rhyme. Very short and sounds like a jingle off Sesame Street, possibly to teach kids the last bit of the alphabet.
Alternative Y - from Scotland , "Ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus" (Tune - She'll be coming round the mountain")
Alternative Y - from Scotland , "Ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus" (Tune - She'll be coming round the mountain")
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I actually do know the one about pushing the granny off the bus! LOL
Unless anyone else knows a Z I have one
Z Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
We're going to the moon
Unless anyone else knows a Z I have one
Z Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
We're going to the moon
mikemiller
Vital Football Hero
Think Fat Larry's Band may have borrowed some ideas from that one!
You could be right, Mike!!!
Well that's another one done!
Thanks to everyone for joining in!
Thinking cap on for another now!
Thanks to everyone for joining in!
Thinking cap on for another now!
