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A friends mother has just died, and we got to talking about I remembered her getting us singing songs when we all went on day trips. Ten Green Bottles etc, and another one had the lines in it "Green grow the rushes O " and and at the end of it was "one is one and all alone so" that was all we could remember of this song, I am sure the apostles were mentioned in it somewhere but that may be another song entirely.
Ring any bells for anyone, I could look it up, but thought it would be more fun get us all thinking about car trips as children or with children
 
Certainly remember Ten Green Bottles. There was another one that went something like “On mother ……….. doorstep, down Paradise Row”. And who could forget Lonnie Donegans “My Old Mans a Dustman” and “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour”.

God, I’d forgotten how awful it all was. Thank God for the Beatles who changed the world for ever.
 
On Mother Kelly's Doorstep, I remembering seeing Danny La Rue singing that on some programme, branded on my brain forever. Of course there was also I'm a Pink Toothbrush.
 
I vaguely remember the "green grow the rushes, oh" one. I'll ask my brother- not only because he has spent most of his adult working life as a pub musician and has a vast collection of folk, traditional and contemporary songs to call on - but he's also got an incredible memory. Because of pubs and music venues being shut for so long, he used lockdown to re-train, and is now teaching english to adults full time and wondering why he didn't do that years ago! No more finishing work at 3 or 4 a.m. for him!

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Here ya go, BYM! https://youtu.be/0ZldyI0-OqM

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Cheers Lady A it all came rushing back as soon as I heard it, I knew there was something about the gospel in it somewhere. I was back in my friends dad's Morris Minor singing along to that. Three wheels on my wagon was another favourite, another one I remember. Think I have forgotten more than I remember.
No radio's in cars back then, on long journeys it was cricket where you got runs for pubs signs a run per arm or leg of the person or animal depicted on the pub sign. My sister hoping to spot a pub called " The Octopus" as they have 8 arms, and being told no they have tentacles, we never did come across a pub called "The Octopus" luckily which avoided a major sulk on her part
 
We used to sing "rounds" as well like "London's burning", Welsh ones although my father couldn't join in those and Frere Jacque.
Also "The Happy Wanderer", "She'll be coming round the mountain" and "The quarter master's stores." It took four and a half hours to get to my aunt's - if we left at 4 am. No Severn Bridge then and the Aust ferry was tide and daylight dependent.
 
Quartermasters stores, " there were rats, rats, big as alley cats" She'll be coming around the mountain was another one, "row, row row your boat", did you sing the goat one Margaid "Oes Gafr Eto" or something similar.

What about "My father had a rabbit and he thought it was a duck" my dad used to sing that to us and we thought it was hilarious, and "She wore red feathers and a huli huli skirt". I love hearing even that even today
 
Daddy being English the Welsh songs we sang in the car were few. Most of the Welsh singing was when I was in my early teens and there were hundreds of such songs, including "Oes gafr eto", which to those of you who don't know is one of those repetitive chorus songs. Having asked "is there another goat that hasn't been milked? On the rocky hillside the old goats wander" the answer is to list goats in all the colours you can think of, the first chorus being perhaps a white goat with a description of the goat's features - flanks tail etc. The question verse is sung again and another colour added so it becomes "blue goat", then "white goat" and so on until you run out of colours.
 
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