Song Names By Kids

[Christine Kelly]

My daughter Hannah who is five asked me to sing the "recipe song." No matter what we asked her, we could not figure out what she wanted to hear. So we asked her to sing it for us. And these are the lyrics she sang.

"Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His name.
Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His glorious name."

Sung to the tune of Blessed Be The Name of the Lord

It goes to show that children are paying attention to the words, but maybe it is the pronunciation that us adults need help with.

Christine Kelly

[Gina Stevenson]

that is sooooo cute, Christine! All the various versions of songs/hymns heard over the years would make quite a cute book of "Hymnology -- a Kids' Perspective." Of course, it would have to include some "splainin' " (what Ricky Ricardo used to do on "I love Lucy") sometimes re which song was intended. ;)

My daughter Hannah who is five asked me to sing the "recipe song." No matter what we asked her, we could not figure out what she wanted to hear. So we asked her to sing it for us. And these are the lyrics she sang.

"Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His name.
Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His glorious name."

Sung to the tune of Blessed Be The Name of the Lord

It goes to show that children are paying attention to the words, but maybe it is the pronunciation that us adults need help with.

Christine Kelly

[Dana Grant]

My daughter Hannah who is five asked me to sing the "recipe song." No matter what we asked her, we could not figure out what she wanted to hear. So we asked her to sing it for us. And these are the lyrics she sang.

"Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His name.
Recipe the name of the Lord, recipe His glorious name."

Sung to the tune of Blessed Be The Name of the Lord

It goes to show that children are paying attention to the words, but maybe it is the pronunciation that us adults need help with.

Christine Kelly


My favorite one EVER was the one Barb Bouldrey posted a long time ago. I'll never forget it!!

Lead on, O Kinky Turtle.

LOL

(Lead on, O King Eternal)

I still laugh at that one when I think about it!

[Christine Kelly]

That is a good one...I like it.

Christine

[Stan Hall]

When my wife was a little girl, her favorite song (usually sung at the end of the service right before lunch) was "Bringing in the Cheese!" (Bringing in the Sheaves)

[Lindsey Grant]

I had one...something like "'Twill be my feaming glory.." for "'Twill be my theme in glory" (to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love...)

[Jen Blackburn]

i have a distant cousin named Melody... i LOVED singing the song "In My Heart there rings a melody" when i was little -- i always thought the song was about her! ;)

[Andrea Larabee]

O.K., I'm telling on my husband here: Recognize this song? It's part of the Bee Geez' disco song "Staying Alive."

Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

As a kid, my husband thought that where it says, "stayin' alive", the were saying "takin' a bath". How on earth he got that idea, I DON"T KNOW. LOL!

The song would then go:

Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're takin' a bath, takin' a bath.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
takin' a bath.
Takin' a bath.
Ah, ha, ha, ha.
Takin' a bath.

:fav18

[Gina Stevenson]

O.K., I'm telling on my husband here: Recognize this song? It's part of the Bee Geez' disco song "Staying Alive."

Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
Stayin' alive.

As a kid, my husband thought that where it says, "stayin' alive", the were saying "takin' a bath". How on earth he got that idea, I DON"T KNOW. LOL!

The song would then go:

Feel the city breakin'
And ev'rybody shakin'
And we're takin' a bath, takin' a bath.
Ah, ha, ha, ha,
takin' a bath.
Takin' a bath.
Ah, ha, ha, ha.
Takin' a bath.

:fav18

Well, Andrea, if he lived anywhere near where he could go to a wave pool, perhaps it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think someone could be shakin' while takin' a bath ... in a wave pool, where the water's moving ... and perhaps those in it might get to shakin'. ;) good one!

[Charlene Clevenger]

When my wife was a little girl, her favorite song (usually sung at the end of the service right before lunch) was "Bringing in the Cheese!" (Bringing in the Sheaves)

When I was little I though they were singnig Bringing in the SHEETS. I always pictured my Mom taking sheets off the closthes line and bringing them in the house. :)

[Joanne Vergin]

www.amiright.com gives you the "correct" lyrics to a lot of songs. The one I used to get wrong was an England Dan/John Ford Coley song.

"I'm not talking bout the way to go" is what I always heard. I like it better than the original.

[Marg Shurtliff]

When I was in my teens and taking a turn at nursery duty , I " caught " a 2 year old singing " Jesus bids us shine with a queer , queer light " .

[Carsten Schermuly]

It is so nice! What all of you have told, warms up the heart.

My goldpiece Elisabeth could not roll the Rs as a little girl.
Nobody has said to her - it would not have helped her, but I misused it.

I often took her on my knees, singing a christian children song with her,
three verses, ending always by the same line,
in des Vaters Haus, da ist Freud', Freud', Freud.
in the fathers home, there is joy, joy, joy.

She has sung "Feud', Feud', Feud" - it made me happy to hear her voice and
the innocently trusting in the words she has sung.
die Freude - the joy

Here with Mrs. Annemarie Tacey, a friend from our community in the Berlin Zoo
on her third birthday, August 1980

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[Jim Franklin]

My sis and I used to sing "Silent Nightie, Holy Nightie."

[Joanne Vergin]

When my oldest was learning the Alphabet song she said shaky mellow p for awhile. :)

[Barb Bouldrey]

When Stephen was 5 he always sat with a lady named Shirley while I played the organ. One request night he wanted to sing, "The Shirley and Me" song.

Whosoever Shirley and me........

"Whosoever surely meaneth me."

When we were in college, a group of us would go around singing,

"I was sinking deep in sin....WHEEEEEEE!"
and
"Yield not to temptation, for yielding is fun." (instead of sin)

and, of course, the one Dana has already mentioned.

But then, THEN was a silly college kid....NOW.......

Barb

[Barb Bouldrey]

When I was even a teen, I liked the song, "Walking in the Winter Wonderland."

I always wondered what color "parson brown" was. I had never heard of a shade of brown called "parson." And why would lovers walking in the snow pretend that a white snowman was parson brown? Didn't make sense to me.

LOL

Barb

[Carsten Schermuly]

As a schoolboy I was a Doris Day fan, she was a baptist and I was fascinated by her faith statements in many interviews and her biography. But never I understood the song "Que sera, sera / Whatever will be, will be". Ask me today for any song, but please not for this - I never have got the sense of its text. My favourite was "Sentimental journey".


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[Gina Stevenson]

Uhhh ... I've probably mentioned before somewhere during my lengthy NN membership that it was around Easter that I remember something about "Low in the Gravy Lay" ("Low in the Grave He Lay ...").

Then there was one of those purposeful things, rather than a childish misunderstanding, that I'm not sure I dare post ... well, I will ... since there are probably some others who've heard/sung this one as a teen, too, perhaps? To the tune of, "At the Cross," we'd sing something else instead ... encompassing several Naz no-no's all in one song. It was: "at the bar, at the bar, where I smoked my first cigar, and the nickels and dimes rolled away ... etc." Goodness! Here we were singing about drinking, smoking, and gambling all at once. Kids ...................... :rolleyes:

It's sort of like that song Barb B/Garfield mentioned, that I recall hearing at college, too ... that old, "Yield Not to Temptation, for Yielding is Fun ... Wheeeeeee!"

[Barb Bouldrey]

Gina,

You were just awful in college. LOL. But not me. (choke, gag)

Actually, the "Up From the Gravy He Arose" was a misprint in our weekly local newspaper in Iberia, MO one Easter week. Each church submitted a newspaper write-up of their weekly activities, including a description of their Sunday morning service. That week the First Baptist choir sang, "Up From the Gravy He Arose."

I love that story. How often I wish the newspaper was printed in Iberia so that I could be a proof reader.

One week they switched paragraphs in side-by-side columns and it had John singing at the First Christian Church and that pastor preaching at ours.

I love small town weekly newspapers.

Barb

[Gina Stevenson]

Oh, how funny! That was almost the same title as the song I remember from when I was a kid. But the song I sung was "Up from the gravy arose," rather than "Up from the gravy HE arose." They've got an extra syllable in there. But, of course, it was just a typo in theirs, rather than a kid's hearing error, as mine was. :basic05

Oh, as for being "awful," we sang that one song waaay before college days ... that started during those fill-in-the-square-church-game days. ;)

Gina,

You were just awful in college. LOL. But not me. (choke, gag)

Actually, the "Up From the Gravy He Arose" was a misprint in our weekly local newspaper in Iberia, MO one Easter week.

Barb

[Brad Mercer]

When my sister was little she thought "spot or wrinkle" was a person's name, like "Spodder Inkle" or something. She thought we were singing "tis a glorious church without Spodder Inkle." She didn't know who poor Spodder was or what she could possible have done that was so wrong, but she felt very sorry for her. She thought it was just terrible that we were all apparently so happy that Spodder had left the church.

Brad

[Dennis M. Scott]

I love small town weekly newspapers.

Barb


In one small community I pastored, the weekly newspapers would put a paragraph saying something like, "This Tuesday Bill and Mary Jones called on Frank and Mabel White." On occasion they even would put, "Rev. and Mrs. Dennis Scott called on Mrs. Hardscrabble Thursday morning." I never did figure out how they got all that information. There would be thirty or forty such notices scattered throughout the 48 page paper.

Do any community papers out there still do that?

[Barb Bouldrey]

Well, Dennis,

In one small town we pastored they would put things in it like that. I WARNED the lady who collected all the gossip and news and submitted it to the county paper that she was NEVER to mention that we were out of town....just mention that we HAD BEEN out of town.

One time the Methodist pastor and his wife went with us to a bigger town 50 miles away for lunch out and shopping at the Mall. We both often had people in one of the hospitals there and Ken had a member in one of those hospitals that day. But it was his day off and John's day off, so he did not go to the hospital. (he had been there the day before.)

We saw someone from our town at the mall. The next Wednesday, when the weekly newspaper came out, it said, "Pastor Bouldrey and Pastor Attix were in Cape Girardeau Monday making hospital calls."

Hmmm...we knew where that came from. LOL

Can't get away with anything in a small town.

Barb, who is off the track of this thread, I know.

[Gina Stevenson]

This isn't a kid's version of a song, but it is song-related ... and since it's not Christmas with a song thread, I'll just put it here. Awhile ago I saw in the store a package of chestnuts with directions on them as to how to roast them. 'Just couldn't resist! How many years has it been that I've been wondering just what they taste like ... think of it sometimes when hearing that old, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ..." (well, I did it in the oven, of course ;)).

They're very interesting. 'Was wondering how to describe them, because they taste like a combo of nuts might be ... (not texture-wise, but taste). Possibly one could say hazelnut-almond-pecan or black walnut mixed up?? Whatever, the roasted flavor is nice! I'll get them again; can't believe I've gone all this many years without knowing what they taste like. :cool:

They're good! ;)

[Carsten Schermuly]

Now you do tell about, I remember to an american cake with a white cream in lovely taste of mixed vanilla and chestnut on top, the cream was made from chestnuts. But - sorry, I do not know its name and I do not know its reciepe.

[Gina Stevenson]

Now you do tell about, I remember to an american cake with a white cream in lovely taste of mixed vanilla and chestnut on top, the cream was made from chestnuts. But - sorry, I do not know its name and I do not know its reciepe.

Here's a link with gobs of chestnut recipes; some sound rather interesting. ;)

http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blv92.htm

Then here's an interesting tidbit about its being used as a potato replacement, plus about its being used to make bread. As good as they tasted roasted, 'bet they make one good bread! ;)

http://z.about.com/d/homecooking/1/0/5/D/chestnut4.gif"These starchy nuts are given to the poor as a symbol of sustenance on the Feast of Saint Martin and are also traditionally eaten on Saint Simon's Day in Tuscany. Legend has it that the Greek army survived on their stores of chestnuts during their retreat from Asia Minor in 401-399 B.C. Chestnuts contain twice as much starch as potatoes. It's no wonder they are still an important food crop in China, Japan, and southern Europe where they are often ground into a meal for breadmaking, thus giving rise to the nickname of "bread tree."