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Aunty Sherlock, we used to sing

'Dad's got a head like a ping pong ball' to William Tell LOL

And I can but offer this one. Sung to the tune of William Tell Overture (think Lone Ranger) if I remember correctly.

A guy had a game with a ping pong ball
A guy had a game with a ping pong ball
A guy had a game with a ping pong ball
With a piiiiiiing, pong ball

With a ping, With a ping, With a ping,With a ping,
With a ping pong ping pong ping pong ball

A guy had a game with a ping pong ball
With a piiiiiing pong ball

Second verse

A guy had a game with a pong ping ball
A guy had a game with a pong ping ball
A guy had a game with a pong ping ball
With a pooooooong, ping ball

I think you get the idea!!


I also have "The Cub Book for Australian Cubs" edition 1952. In the dim recesses of my memory I think my brother may have been involved. Or more likely I picked it up at a secondhand book sale when my kids were little.

This one was popular at camp...

The ants were marching two by two
Hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching two by two
hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching two by two
The little one stopped to do up his shoe
And they all went marching down
To the ground
To get out
Of the rain boom boom boom

The ants were marching three by three
Hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching three by three
Hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching three by three
The little one stopped to do a wee
And they all went marching down
To the ground
To get out
Of the rain boom boom boom

…and so on, with the little one stopping to
Shut the door
look in a hive
pick up sticks
Go to heaven
Shut the gate
Walk on the line

Last verse…
The ants were marching ten by ten
Hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching ten by ten
Hurrah Hurrah
The ants were marching ten by ten
If you want any more I’ll sing it again
And they all went marching down
To the ground
To get out
Of the rain boom boom boom booooooooom

Morning all....another ex patrol leader here :O)
Of course there was another nasty song most people remember! ....LOL MIck xx

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I'll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice,
And throw the skins away!
Nobody knows how fat I grow,
On worms three times a day!

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I think I'll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm!

Mau xx

Oh my word, memories are flooding back lol!

We sang those songs plus:

One Heffalump
Came out to play
Upon a spider's web one day,
He found it such
Tremendous fun
He called for another Heffalump to come.

No idea what a Heffalump is!

I was a Patrol Leader.

xxx Shimms xxx

When I was in the guides we used to sing this with gusto!


Ging-gang-gooly gooly gooly gotcha ging gang goo, ging gang goo.
Ging-gang-gooly gooly gooly gotcha ging gang goo, ging gang goo.
Hayla, hayla shayla, hayla shayla hayla hooooooo
Hayla, hayla shayla, hayla shayla hayla hooooooo!


What on earth was all that about??? I haven't the foggiest!


(Stupid thing will probably be in my head all day now - Grrrrr)



Cx.

Regarding Men at Work-

I went to Uni with Greg Ham - the flute player.

I have a photo of him playing flute in the band
backing MY singing!

(Oh what might have been - lol)

xxxxxxxx mick

Ahhh Mau- when I was a Boy Scout we sang an even less polite version-

"Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
Jumping up and down with his B***s on fire!"


xxxxxxx mick

Isn't that the song which has just featured in a court case?
The originator sued a group (and won) for stealing it. The case was only closed this week.

As someone who was expelled from the Brownies and therefore not in the Girl Guides I'm reporting this thread as Girl Guide-ist!

LOL

Craftlady - won't you direct us to where you found it (and what it is) so we're not left in the same dark you were in?! ;)

Hi everyone who offered their kind help in pointing me in the right direction re kookaburra song ~ have found exactly what I was looking for ~ I'm so happy ~ an so is my lovely granddaughter ~ many, many thanks again.

Susan# - I'd checked that one - only has what Craftlady already has, unfortunately. ;)

Mau - is it actually part and parcel of the same song??

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Merry merry king of the bush is he
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be







Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Eating all the gumdrops he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Leave some gums for me

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
That's no monkey, that's ME!!!

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The Kookaburra does no work,
He has no work to do,
He sits upon a tree all day,
And has a snake or two,
And when he's cut that snake in half,
He sits upon a tree to
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
He he he he he he

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
Tears in his eyes and his pants on fire
Ouch Kookaburra, Ouch Kookaburra
Hot your tail must be.

Thanks a whole bunch everyone for your kind help, I'm now going to trawl through the info' and hopefully come up with goods ~ what got me going on this was my youngest granddaughter wanting to know the lyrics ~ she's doing a project at school on 'witty ditties' and thought of this song, thanks again.

This guiding site has the song and many others

it was also known as a nursery rhyme

http://www.shropshireguiding.org.uk/page10.html

Craftlady, if you google

"kookaburra has no work"

in quotation marks like that, there is this in the results:

http://www.penders.com/assets/instrumental-rhythmic.pdf

Collection w/Orff Instr & Repro 16141400 $15.00
Orffestrations Go ‘Round in Round Again
Linda Forrest
Songs: America, America • Are You Sleeping • Diddle Diddle Dumpling • Engine Engine Number 9 • French Cathedrals • Hey Ho! Nobody Home • >>>Kookaburra Has No Work • Music Alone Shall Live • Sweetly Sings the Donkey • Tallis Canon • Viva La Musica

It seems to be words and music for those songs, I think.

I don't know how you're supposed to order it though!

oops :-)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8497433.stm

The Australian band Men at Work are facing a big legal bill after a court ruled it had plagiarised a Girl Guides' song in its 1983 hit, Down Under.

Larrikin Music had claimed the flute riff from was stolen from Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree, written by Marion Sinclair in 1934.

I've just had a good google and our song is the only kookaburra song I can find...

Thanks janey & teresa for your reply, I/we used to sing the gum tree song also but the K song I referred to no one seems to know it isn't that strange, ooh! I've just had a thought maybe it was 'county' song if you know what I mean ie I come from Somerset and perhaps this song was familiar to this part of the country, incidentally I was a brown owl for a few years and I taught my brownies the song along with others and had great fun singing our hearts out whilst out on nature walks ~ happy days!