h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Glad to know your sex, I don't know anyone who plays an accordian let alone a woman. But then I live in Australia and unless you are in the Bush, you don't get to hear, only what they put on the radio. Most of the people I am in touch with on my other site are American Have one Texan woman, but she has been ill and I haven't heard for a while. I doubt you will find that song, still you never know. If you were in England you might. Most Americans have lived different lives brought up by grandmothers and given away as children. I have read some heart breaking stories, yet the people concerned have overcome their difficulties and write beautifully. Cheers marj

Well, I spent four hours online today looking for your songs in US, Canada, UK, Australia, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
Guess I'll have to try Greece, next.
But I haven't given up.
Just wish you could remember more of it, them.

And I've been all the way back to wax cylinders...
oh, I forgot, one site led me to India...

Well I hate to put you to all that trouble. The main one is called "I'm Mothers Baby Boy" goes on, Fathers pride and joy, born on a ?? breeched on the ?? There is a lot more but all I can remember is someone going to Lipton's to buy some tea. Yet my Dad sang it every Xmas. The other one "MY Baby has gone down the Plughole" was put on an album a few years ago by a london speaking singer but I can't remember his name. I did tape it at the time but have moved so much it got lost. I can remember some of that . It went on, "the poor little thing was so thin and so slight, it should have been washed in a jug". Then later "Your baby is perfectly happy it won't need a bath anymore" then it went on about angels and being in Heaven. Stupid really. Another one I don't suppose you will know but I have heard it occasionally is "When Father Papered the Parlour", you couldn't see him for paste, slapping it here, slapping it there". Then I can't rememeber anymore of that. Thewre is an English Magazine I contribute to and write for sometimes I could ASK IN THERE BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO MENTION THE MAGAZINE'S NAME ON HERE. I love it as it is all about the past mainly, of course there are two of them, so I am not giving anything away I hope as I has someething disallowed when I first wrote. Cheers Marj

'... Mother was stuck to the ceiling
The children stuck to the floor
I never knew a blooming family So 'stuck up' before'

Wonderful! I used to play this for old-time music hall evenings

You can find all the words here:
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=PAPRPARL

Your baby down the plughole is called "A mother's lament"
'A mother was washing her baby one night.
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.'

http://www.dreamwater.org/trasksdad/MusicHall/songs_5.html

shazz

There y'go.
Shazz, why wouldn't grams be allowed to mention the name of a magazine?

Time
Playboy
Esquire
Businessweek
Radio Times
Forbes
Bicuspid Annual
Porgressive Farmer
Platypus
Dog Fancier
Dog Breeder

We'll se what happens to those.

I think she can

Please do grams (if I may call you that)

Still can't find the other one, although it does ring a faint bell with me!

shazz