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An ancient Order of Froth Blowers handkerchief, a humorous British charitable organisation, with the lyrics "The More We Are Together", a popular British children's song from the 1920s Commercial children's music grew out of the popular music-publishing industry associated with New York's Tin Pan Alley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
After the United States entered the war in December 1941, Brown and Tobias modified the lyrics to their current form, with the chorus ending with "...till I come marching home". [2] "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" remained in Your Hit Parade's first place from October 1942 through January 1943. It was the longest period for a war song to hold ...
He looked up in the tree, And he said, "Zacchaeus you come down, For I'm going to your house today!" (cup hands around mouth) For I'm going to your house today! (clap to the beat) Version used in England: Zacchaeus was a very little man, And a very little man was he. He climbed up into a sycamore tree For the Saviour he wanted to see.
"Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree" variant in both English and Spanish. "Five Little Monkeys" is an English-language nursery rhyme, children's song, folk song and fingerplay of American origin. It is usually accompanied by a sequence of gestures that mimic the words of the song.
Sir Humphry Davy attributed the connection to joy and sorrow in his Salmonia: or Days of Fly Fishing (1828), in which he wrote that 'For anglers in spring it has always been regarded as unlucky to see single magpies, but two may be always regarded as a favourable omen; [...] in cold and stormy weather one magpie alone leaves the nest in search ...
Sat upon a tree, Up went the Pussy-Cat, And down went he; Down came Pussy-Cat, Away Robin ran, Says little Robin Redbreast— Catch me if you can. Little Robin Redbreast jumped upon a wall, Pussy-Cat jumped after him, and almost got a fall. Little Robin chirped and sung, and what did pussy say? Pussy-Cat said Mew, mew mew,—and Robin jumped ...
The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered. [4] [5] In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal.
Sitting Pretty [1] A Desert Island: Jerome Kern Guy Bolton: 1924: Sitting Pretty [1] Down Here in Greenwich Village: Jerome Kern Clifford Grey: 1920: Sally [15] Down on the Banks of the Subway: Armand Vecsey: 1919: The Rose of China [12] Dreams: Rudolph Friml Clifford Grey: 1928: The Three Musketeers [2] The Enchanted Train: Jerome Kern: 1924 ...