songs

[knowimust]

1 where did I take my banjo.
2 where do the flying fishes play
3 who got a gentle wife.
many thanks for any help.

[Answerprancer]

3 The Couper Of Fife

[Answerprancer]

(...nickity nackity noo noo noo)

[boxtops]

2 The Rudyard Kipling poem (later a barrack room ballad!) says "Mandalay, where the flying fishes play"

[jno]

not sure if it's Mandalay, or the road thereto, where the flying fishes play.

I came from Alabama, Wid a banjo on my knee, I'm gwyne to Louisiana, My true love for to see

[askyourgran]

Yep it was Mandalay where the flying fishes play.

[Answerprancer]

...now I've got the bloody song stuck in my heid !
(we were force-fed it at school)

[jno]

Mandalay is a long way inland

http://maps.google.co...&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

But maybe he meant the flying fishes were playing football or something.

[knowimust]

1 whose sandles were herring boxes.
2 where did Micheal row his boat.
3 where does the dew fa early.
thanks for any help.