!["The Farmer in the Dell" is a singing game, nursery rhyme, and children's song. It probably originated in Germany and was brought to America by immigrants.[1] From there, it spread to many other nations and is popular in a number of languages.](https://family-friendly-movies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/wesley-buttercup-farm.jpg)
“The Farmer in the Dell” is a singing game, nursery rhyme, and children’s song. It probably originated in Germany and was brought to America by immigrants.[1] From there, it spread to many other nations and is popular in a number of languages.
The Farmer in the Dell
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? Written by Septimus Winner in 1864. Interestingly, it was originally sung with a bogus German accent: “Oh Where, oh Where Ish Mine Little Dog Gone?” Set to the German folk tune “In Lauterbach hab’ ich mein’ Strumpf verlor’n”
Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
Song lyrics to Shortenin’ Bread – an African-American folk song dating back at least to the 1890s. James Whitcomb Riley published it as a poem in 1900, building on older lyrics.
Shortenin’ Bread
It really was no miracle
What happened was just this
The wind began to switch, the house to pitch
And suddenly the hinges started to unhitch
Just then the Witch, to satisfy an itch
Went flying on her broomstick, thumbing for a hitch
And oh, what happened then was rich
Meet me tonight in dreamland,
Under the silv’ry moon.
Meet me tonight in dreamland,
Where love’s sweet roses bloom.
When My Baby Smiles At Me, words by Andrew B. Sterling and Ted Lewis music by Bill Munro. Performed by Ted Lewis in Abbott and Costello’s Hold That Ghost.
When My Baby Smiles At Me [song lyrics]
Me and My Shadow is a classic popular music song. Nearly 100 years old, it remains popular. See the Media listing at the end for some examples.
Me and My Shadow – song lyrics
New River Train, Performed on The Andy Griffith Show episode, The Guitar Player among many other places.
New River Train song lyrics
Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut we’re all our own
She loves gin and I love rum,
And don’t we have a lot of fun!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don’t I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don’t I love thee!
When I go toiling on the farm
I take the little jug under my arm
Yankee Doodle – the song that became the anthem of the American Revolution. Yankee Doodle was originally an insult by the British …. Which the Americans turned on its’ head!
Yankee Doodle song lyrics
