Ballads and folk songs are some of my favorite bits of music, whether sad and melancholy, or the ones that make you want to get up to laugh and dance. Of the latter, I present you:
Tag: song
In Celebration of Our Old Age
We do have to laugh at our older selves . . .
Rise Up! Sing Along! Sign Along!
From the blog Fraggle’s Other Place comes a request to share this video, made by her stepdaughter Emma to inspire the deaf, and others, to know that our lives under Covid-19 won’t be imprisoned forever:
“Don’t Fence Me In”
Such a classical song from the 40s by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. There are versions of the same by Roy Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Gene Autry. You can find these on YouTube.
It was also a popular song in the infamous American internment camps for Japanese-Americans during WW2.
Three Little Fishies
Three Little Fishies
Down in the meadow in a
little bitty pool
Swam three little fishies
And a mama fishie too
“Swim,” said the mama fishie,
“Swim if you can.”
And they swam and they swam all
over the dam
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
And they swam and they swam
right over the dam
“Stop!” cried the mama fish,
“Or you will get lost.”
But the three little fishies
didn’t want to be bossed
The three little fishies
went off on a spree,
And they swam and
they swam right out
to the sea
Boop boop diten datem
Whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
And they swam and they swam
And they got lost in the sea
“Help!” cried the fishies,
“Look at the whale.”
And quick as they could,
They turned on their tails
And back to the itty bitty
pool they swam
And they swam and
they swam
Back over the dam
Boop boop diten datem
whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem
whatem choo
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
And they swam and they swam
Right over the dam
Boop boop diten datem whatem choo
And they swam and they swam
right over the dam
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