FAVOURITE SCHOOL SONG..You've never heard it----"The Millers Flat bus has got a puncture in its tyre". Millers Flat is in Central Otago and in 1956 we all learned this song. The bus travelled the round trip from millers flat, Through ettrick,to roxburgh High and back through Roxburgh railway and teviot to millers flat Primary school

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The Happy Wanderer

I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
"Come! Join my happy song!"

I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev'ry green wood tree.

High overhead, the skylarks wing,
They never rest at home
But just like me, they love to sing,
As o'er the world we roam.

Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
Oh, may I always laugh and sing,
Beneath God's clear blue sky

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baa baa doesn't matter if your black or white >>> sheep <<<

wool and then cotton,

yes sir and then no sir,

three bags full and then It's all rotton,

1 for master lame and little boy who lives down the lane.

and then none for what I just wrote,

no,

ok ok ,

my time goes back to THE HOLIDAY MAKERS

that ryme up the top was tought at primary school,

mmmmmmmmmmmm wonder if they still teaching that now:o

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i would 500 hundred miles . The proclaimers

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I love joni mitchell's 'california' and 'case of you'

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Rock The Casbah by The Clash
Say Im Your number One by Princess
I Cant Wait by Nu Shoes
Tell it to my Heart by Taylor Dayne
Sweet Lovers by The Holiday Makers

Its all coming back to know so this list could get longer...But ...

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water

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Doin' the pigeon - Bert ( from sesame street).

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The boys are back in town....

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told the witch doctor I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said that ....
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang...
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang

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teddy prendergrass-lovin somebody
nearly all bob marleys songs
ric james-fire and desire
electric ladyland album-jimi hendrix
rappers delight-suger hill gang
american anthem-marvin gaye
children of the sea-black sabbath
the rain song-led zeppelon

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Superstition.
Stevie Wonder.

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Rush - Fly By Night
- Tom Sawyer

Those two have gotta be tied 1st for me, but there's so many other good tracks out there, and fortunately for me, time tends to weed out c***py music :D

... Wow.. We aren't allowed to say cah-rap in here... That's overkill don't you think? Its a G rated word!

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Second that emotion..Smokey robinson and the miracles

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Hey odie - a RUSH fan! crazy! Full on, Geddy Lee has to be one of the greatest bass players around!
But, to pick a fav old school song; that is a big ask - "Since I've Been Loving You"
"Please Call Home"
"Shine on You Crazy Diamond"
"Incomudro; The Hymn to the Atman" [ just kidding! ]
"Xanadu"
"Like a Hurricane"
"One More Cup of Coffee"
"Oh Well"
"Come Together in The Morning"
"Black Magic Woman"
"People, Let's Stop the War"
"With a Little help From My Friends"

this list is endless, you choose...or tell me who sung each of the above......

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My favourite was Stairway to Heaven!

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Yeah the "Rain Song" is certainly a great Led Zep track.

One of my favourites is "Morning Dew". Written and recorded originally by Tim Rose I believe [ do correct me if I am wrong ] he also wrote "Come Away Melinda".
"Morning Dew" is an oft -covered song and in that way it is a fav.
Nazareth covered it in fine style on their first album, and the Grateful Dead did an extraordinarily drawn out version on their Europe '72 album.
Some early N.Z. bands also recorded it.

As for singles..[ Stairway to Heaven was never released as a single strangely enough ] I think that the Barry Ryan song "Eloise", later covered by The Damned, has to be right up there.

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nazareth.. great band :)
shame they only gain recognition by the masses with one song

(bit like pink floyd and brick in the wall)

************************* **********
Any heart, not tough,
Or strong, enough
To take a lot of pain,
Take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
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Yeah, loved their version of Joni Mitchells' "This Flight Tonight". Also "My White Bicycle" was great, and, of course "Hair of the Dog" covered by Guns 'n' Roses.

"Love Hurts", I think was written by Gram Parsons....

He and Emmylou Harris sung it together, and she wrote "Boulder to Birmingham" when Gram died, also one of the bestest songs ever........

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The nuns taught me..."just a spoon-full of sugar and the message..."

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Gracious me...then I found out years later that it meant to be "medicine"...:-)