What was the very first song you learnd to sing?

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I learned from my Aunts & Mom that the first one I learnd and sang was Tales from Vienna Woods. I was 2. :) I wonder what happened? :( Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE INK IS BLACK THE PEN IS WHITE TOGETHER WE LEARN TO READ AND WRITE TO READ AND WRITE

That's the earliest I can remember anyway.

― Tom, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first sentence I ever constructed was not actually said, but sung! I sang "I like the peach" repeatedly while sitting in a laundry basket.

― rainy, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PAGE is white. the PEN can be a multitude of interesting and multi- cultural colours. When a Knight Won His Spurs may have pipped that one to the post with me. Or maybe it was Rubber Ducky.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE INK IS BLACK THE PEN IS WHITE TOGETHER WE LEARN TO READ AND WRITE TO READ AND WRITE

Woah! I feel like I've just had an electrode prod parts of my brain I was saving for the controversial memory-recovering psychologist. Don't do this to me. Alan's right though - it is 'page' not 'pen'.

― Nick, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I was taught the words to many many songs in childhood. However I could not sing any of them properly owing to my achingly bad voice (aka Raw London Edge like the Streets). Then on holiday with my chums aged 16 they insisted that anyone could be taught to sing in tune and managed to get me to sing a whole chorus of some Erasure song in tune. Once. Cannot remember which song now.

― Emma, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah it is page. Pen makes no sense but that's memory for you. Also Kum Bi Yah My Lord Kum Bi Yah but I hated that one whereas the ink is black you could yell.

― Tom, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Written as I sang it as a four year old)
LET me TAKE YOO BY THE HAND AND LEED YOO FROO VUH STREETS of LUNDUN...

― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

at the age of two, in the bath: DAISY, DAISY GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER DOOOO, I'M HARF CRAY-ZEEE ALL FOR THE LOVE OF YOU!!!!! etc etc until it drove my mam mad. it amused my nan, though!

― katie, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Who can forget that classic of hymn practice that NO four-year old could ever understand?
MAKE ME A CHANN-ULL OF YAW PEAS... WHERE THERE IS HAYTRED LET ME BRING YAW LU-U-UV...
This really should be sung with an accompaniment of the sound of velcro trainers being absent-mindedly fastened and unfastened.

― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is katie = HAL?

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"It Doesn't Matter Any More" by Buddy Holly.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Allouette, gentille allouette / allouette je te plumerais"

I wouldn't have known how to spell it then, natch. Or what it meant (something about a sparrow?).

― Ellie, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It is about plucking a lark. Those crazy French chaps!

― Emma, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At school we always used to sing "there's a hole in my bucket"...and we would always shout the chorous...so they stopped us from singing it...so they taught us "I was cold, I was hungry, were you there, were you there..." but we ended up shouting that too, and laughing at the "I was naked" part!...Oh and Com by Ya, my Lord, Com by Ya!...We used to also shout during "When I'm 64"...in hindsight we shouted every single song! haha! We were just wannabe drunken pub singers.

― james, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can't remember the first, but that alphabet song was pretty catchy. Aaaa beee seeee deeee eeeeeeeeeee(voice cracks) effff geeeeee! haaaitch eeye jay-kay hell emmmm en OHHHHH peeee (hurhur) ect. THE STREETS (of SESAME) haf a lot to answer for young Sarahs singing voice quite probably. I wuvved the animation for the number eight.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

onetwothree-FOUR-FIVE-sixseveneight-NINE-TEN-eleven-twelve...
I can see the ball moving around the contraption as we speak.

― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Songs from primary school: Obladi Oblada (Oh bloody Oblada), Kum bay ya my lord (Cucumber my lord), a harvest song that included the lines "broad beans are sleeping in their blankety bed" (Blankety Blank) and "a win for my home team"(cue entire hall full of children scream SPURS! or LIVERPOOL! and one lone boy shouts MANCHESTER UNITED! - I bet this has changed somewhat since the early eighties). Also on a football theme, When a knight won his SPURS!/LIVERPOOL!/M.UTD! and finally, "would you walk by on the other side when some one called for AIDS"

― Madchen, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Will, contraption = pinball machine, no?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I concur, pinball machine. As in - that fella who doesn't know what a pinball machine is - sure plays a mean pinball.

― Pete, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah! But in the haze of memory it also seemed to me to be a kind of living room...

― Will, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sit on m y face and tell me that you luuuuurve me.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Money For Nothing' by Dire Straits.

― DG, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did you guys have Teacher Songs? Here are some:

Row row row your boat/gently down the stream/throw your teacher overboard/and listen to her scream/Five days later/floating down the Delaware/chewing on her underwear/can't afford another pair/Ten days later/eaten by a polar bear/that's how the polar bear died!

Glory, glory hallelujah/Teacher hit me with a ruler/shot her in the butt with a loaded .44/and teacher don't teach no more...

and one for those burgeoning conservative values:

This land is my land/it isn't your land/I've got a shotgun/and you don't got one/I'll blow your head off/if you don't get off/this land is private property!

― suzy, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably "Free to Be You and Me" or "Sing" ("Sing, sing a song," not Travis -- though that would be an amusing answer in context).

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there is the remix of an English Country Garden...

Ahem..."What do you do if you want to go to poo in an English country garden, pull down your pants and suffocate the ants in an English country garden"...

I'm sorry.

― james, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To the tune of "Frere Jacques": Marijuana, marijuana/LSD, LSD/Scientists make it/Teachers take it/Why can't we?/Why can't we?

My first song: B-I-N-G-O!

― Arthur, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the first one i learnt was either once in davids royal city, land of silver birch ;home of the beaver or kum by aye .

― anthony, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eat It/Beat It is forever mixed up in my head but I knew both all the way through. I dont remeber which one I knew bits and pieces of first, Helpless is up there, as was some John Denver Im told (I dont remeber, honest).

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

probably "love me do" at age two.

― di, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually have a tape recording of myself aged 6 singing frere jacques. Thanks to my parents my up to that point isolated countryside life, I shockingly (to me) have this very odd accent in it that's a bit South African, and a bit Scottish. It's crazy because it sounds *nothing* at all like present day me.

My first fully memorized song is probably the ubiquitous alphabet song, which was very instructive too. That was until that first day when I finally tried to write it out on paper, which was going along just fine until I had a long and troubled pause just after the letter K, which I eventually followed up with a long interpretive squiggly line. When questioned later I reluctantly identified the strange character as "Elemmeno".

― Kim, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Add an "and" to that post somewhere where it makes a bit of sense thanks.

― Kim, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably some crap that my older sibling were listening to. Meatloaf at a guess, or Abba

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rock-a-bye baby in the treetops when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bough breaks the cradle will fall and down will come baby, cradle and all. Something like that anyway - to the melody of Brahms' lullaby.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I am so going to not let my children learn rock and roll songs first.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 2 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it would have to be "London Bridge is Falling Down" (in day care), followed closely by Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" (from listening to oldies radio) and the hymn "Be Not Afraid" (from weekly Mass).

Weird, huh?

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I dont recall the very first, but I do recall in early primary school we were taught "They're coming to take me away, ho ho he he ha ha". I have a tape with me singing it! That and that Camp Grenada song. I'm not sure what the hell my teachers were getting at.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

'Charlie had a pigeon' most probably, quickly followed by 'Fanny Morgan'.....

― Samwise Gamgee, Monday, 9 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

A similar thread here, on I Love Music --> What did your parents sing to you?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

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