A BUSHEL AND A PECK lyrics

I love you a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck
A hug around the neck and a barrel and a heap
A barrel and a heap and I'm talkin' in my sleep

About you, about you

 'Cause I love you a bushel and a peck
You bet your purdy neck I do
A doodle oodle ooh doo
A doodle oodle oodle ooh doo

I love you a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck though you make my heart a wreck
Make my heart a wreck and you make my life a mess
Make my life a mess, yes a mess of happiness

About you, about you

 'Cause I love you a bushel and a peck
You bet your purdy neck I do
A doodle oodle ooh doo
A doodle oodle oodle ooh doo

I love you a bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck and it beats me all to heck
It beats me all to heck, how I'll never tend the farm
Never tend the farm when I wanna keep my arm

About you, about you

 'Cause I love you a bushel and a peck
You bet your purdy neck I do
A doodle oodle ooh doo
A doodle oodle oodle ooh doo

 

A doodle oodle oodle ooh doo
A doodle oodle ooh doo doo

***Every one of us (old and new) grew up knowing this song with re-enactments.
"All my grand babies can sing that one to you. Well not Anna Beth yet, but we're going to be working on it!" ~ Danny ***



CHIME BELLS ARE RINGING lyrics

Up on a mountain
So gay and so free
There is a young man
He's waiting there for me
And out on the lake
We'll drift with the tide
And hear those chime bells ring

Chime bells are ringing
(yodel)
Mockingbirds are singing
(yodel)
Hush little lover
(yodel)
Upon a summer's eve

Well moonbeams were shining
As I kissed him there
Nightbirds were singing
Perfume filled the air
Each little star
Well, it twinkled above
As heaven smiled on our love

Chime bells are ringing
(yodel)
Mockingbirds are singing
(yodel)
Hush little lover
(yodel)
Upon a summer's eve

(long yodel)

***"Don't move your tongue to make the yodel, just the back of the tongue"***


SWEET VIOLETS lyrics

Sweet Violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets
 

There once was a farmer who took a young miss
In back of the barn where he gave her a lecture
On horses and chickens and eggs
And told her that she had such beautiful
Manners that suited a girl of her charms
A girl that he wanted to take in his
Washing and ironing and then if she did
They could get married and raise lots of
Sweet violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets
 

The girl told the farmer that he'd better stop
And she call her father and he called a
Taxi and got there before very long
'Cause some one was doin' his little girl
Right for a change and so that's why he said
If you marry her son, you're better off single
'Cause it's always been my belief
Marriage will bring a man nothing but
Sweet Violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets
 

The farmer decided he wed anyway
And started in planning for his wedding
Suit which he purchased for only one buck
But then he found out he was just out of
Money and so he got left in the lurch
A standin' and waitin' in front of the
End of the story which just goes to show
All a girl wants from a man is his
Sweet Violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets

Sweet Violets

***Madalyn knew Sweet Violets by the time she was three. We sang it all the time when we would go camping. I would start off, "There was once a young farmer who took a young" and she would fill in the blanks. She still remembers it! ~ Danny***


THREE LITTLE FISHIES lyric

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 dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!

 And they swam and they swam all over the dam

"Stop" said the mama fishie, "or you will get lost"
The three little fishies didn't wanna be bossed
The three little fishies went off on a spree
And they swam and they swam right out to the sea
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!

 And they swam and they swam right out to the sea

"Whee!" yelled the little fishies, "Here's a lot of fun
We'll swim in the sea till the day is done"
They swam and they swam, and it was a lark
Till all of a sudden they saw a shark!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!

 Till all of a sudden they saw a shark!

"Help!" cried the little fishies, "Gee! look at all the whales!"
And quick as they could, they turned on their tails
And back to the pool in the meadow they swam
And they swam and they swam back over the dam
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu!
And they swam and they swam back over the dam.

PUT MY LITTLE SHOES AWAY lyric

Mother Dear, come and bathe my forehead
For I'm growing very weak
Let one drop of water
Fall upon my burning cheek.

 

Tell my darling little playmates

That no longer I shall play 

Give them all my toys but mother
Put my little shoes away.

 

Santa Claus he brought them to me
With a lot of other things
And I think he brought an angel
With a pair of golden wings.

 

Soon the baby will be larger
And they'll fit his little feet
Won't he look so nice and cunny
As he walks upon the street.

 

Tell my darling little playmates

That no longer I shall play 
Give them all my toys but mother
Put my little shoes away.


***When momma was little, she sang this song while pushing a stroller
at a 4th of July picnic. ***



PLAYMATE lyric AKA The Boo-Hoo Song

Playmate come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three,
Climb up my apple tree,
Look down my rain barrel,
Slide down my cellar door,
and we'll be jolly friends forever more

She couldn't come out and play,
It was a sunny day
With tearful eye, she breathed a sigh
And I could hear her say,

I'm sorry, playmate,
I cannot play with you
My dollies have the flu,
Boo-hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo
Ain't got no rain barrel,
Ain't got no cellar door
But we'll be jolly friends, forever more.

***When Kymberlee was little she'd ask to hear the Boo-Hoo song ~ Donna***


LET'S DO IT, LET'S FALL IN LOVE lyrics

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

 

In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

 

The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Fins
Folks in Siam do it, think of Siamese twins

Some Argentines without means do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

 

Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

 

Cold Cape Cod Clams 'gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

 

Electric eels, I might add do it
Though it shocks 'em I know
Why ask if shad do it, waiter bring me "Shad Roe"

In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love

CHINK-A-BOO MAN lyrics

 

 When I was just a little bitty baby

 Just about so high

 My mammy use to tell me a story

 bout a old man wee up in the sky.

 

 Chorus: He's got great big shiny eyes

          He's got a great big mouth this size

          He walks like this and like that

          He eats up little children both lean and fat

He only goes out at night

He is dressed in nothing but white.

          So run, run, run just as fast as you can

          And hide yourself away from the Chink-A-Boo Man

 One night while I was walking cross the meadow

 Just about a mile from home

 I heard a rustling in the bushes

 Then I heard a low, low moan

 Well, I took off towards my Mammy's house a flyin'

 And when I did reached that door

 Mammy! I did roar

 MAMMY, I saw that Chink-A-Boo!

 

 Repeat Chorus



CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CONE ~ lyrics

My mommie said if I'd be good she'd send me to the store.

 She said she'd bake some gingerbread if I would sweep the floor.

 She said if I would make the bed and watch the telephone

 that she would send me out to get a chocolate ice cream cone.

 

And so I did the things she said and then she baked some gingerbread.

 And I went out just me alone and got my chocolate ice cream cone.

 

While coming back I stumped my toe upon a big old stone.

 And need I tell you that I dropped my chocolate ice cream cone.

 A little doggy came along and took and great big lick.

 And so I hit that mean old dog with such a little stick.

 

 And he bit me where I sit down

 And then he chased me all over town.

 And now I'm lost, can't find my home.

 And all because of that chocolate ice cream cone.


***Here's one of the many songs we grew up to which momma sang to us. Especially, while we cleaned the house.***

 

FEUDIN' And FIGHTIN' lyrics

Feudin' and fussin' and a-fightin,'
Sometimes it gets to be excitin', now
Don't like them ornery neighbors down by the creek
We'll be plumb out of neighbors next week

Grandma, poor ol' grandma
Tell me, why'd they have to shoot poor grandma
She lies in the clover
You see, someone caught her bending over
Pickin' up a daisy!

Feduin' and fussin' and a-fightin'
There is a wrong that needs a rightin'
Let's get that funeral service over
So then we can start in a-feudin' again

Daughter, baby daughter
Poisened all the neighbors chickens
Daughter hadn't oughter
Least 'till she could run like the dickens
They hit her with a shovel

Feudin' and fightin' and a-fussin'
No use a-standin' here a-cussin', now
Let's give our daughter a pistol now that she's four
And go feudin' and fightin' some more