Do you guys remember that book and tape that was put out, probably in the late 80s? It had the song above, plus many others like Standing on the W-O-R-D.
My grandma gave me that as a kid and I wore it out. I loved the songs and the pictures in that book so much. I believe my favorite song was the "He made it all for me, every flower every tree..." (however it goes).
Then they stopped selling it because the people who produced it left. Too bad. It seems like all the halfway decent artists and musicians left during the fog years, so I missed out on a lot of the cool things there may have once been.
I remember, if fact that's how I remembered the song. My children had them. (Also given to them by their grandmother. How odd is that?) Isn't there someone who posts on here who sang on that tape? And I think there was a post a long time ago about how VPW made the writer of the ABC song change the lyrics to "fit" his interpretation of the Bible.
Well, the croc winked his eye as she waved them all good-bye,
Wearing a hap-py smile!
But at the end of the ride, the lady was inside,
And the smile was on the croc-o-dile!
There! It's taken months, but my poor old brain cells finally sorted it out! I'll let Waysider figure out how to add the hand gestures.
WG
Yep
I remember all the hand gestures.
I especially liked the part where "the lady was inside".
That's the part where you rub your belly like you're full.
If you closed your eyes and concentrated real hard, you could imagine that the bowl of "swill deluxe with flax seeds" you had just eaten, had satisfied your hunger just like the lady had done for the croc.
50 grown men and women singing kid's songs after dinner in the BRC.
Wish I had a video of it. (except cam-corders hadn't been invented yet.)
It would probably win hands down on that wackiest videos show.
My sister and I sang on that album, I believe, I was little, about the third grade at Indiana Campus. I think my mom still has that tape. I don't have the book anymore but do have the children's (red) sing along the way.
Yes, but Watered Garden, did you also do the Calypso roll-away?
I wish I could remember who started it, (13th and 15th corps in-rez at Emporia). Funnier than heck, and almost everyone participated.
Rooooollll away. Oh - oh - oh - OOOOOOLLLL away.
Every burden of me heart, it roll away
Every sin she got to go 'neath the chrimson flow...
After that people started coming up with the New York roll-away, etc. Never woulda been allowed in the 90's!!
TheHighWay, when we were Family 11 in Indiana I think someone taught us the Calypso roll-away, which inspired several different versions, with M. G a ^^ells' Hawaiian roll-away being the most popular. It started out slow to the tune of Aloha-Oi, with everyone standing and hula-ing:
So roll a-way, so roll a-way
Every burdon of my heart roll a-way-a
So roll a-way, so roll a-way
Every burdon of my heart roll away
Then, the tempo and tune changed to a guttral oooga-oooga-oooha kind of thing when it gets to the next part about "every sin has to go", etc.
There was also H. $tein's Jewish version where the words were changed to "every sin, it should go" and C. Wa !!er's Dylan version sung to the tune of "Lay Lady Lay". I loved this stuff. It made the drudgery of the corps program more tolerable and the kids seemed to love the sillyness of it.
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Do you guys remember that book and tape that was put out, probably in the late 80s? It had the song above, plus many others like Standing on the W-O-R-D.
My grandma gave me that as a kid and I wore it out. I loved the songs and the pictures in that book so much. I believe my favorite song was the "He made it all for me, every flower every tree..." (however it goes).
Then they stopped selling it because the people who produced it left. Too bad. It seems like all the halfway decent artists and musicians left during the fog years, so I missed out on a lot of the cool things there may have once been.
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I remember, if fact that's how I remembered the song. My children had them. (Also given to them by their grandmother. How odd is that?) Isn't there someone who posts on here who sang on that tape? And I think there was a post a long time ago about how VPW made the writer of the ABC song change the lyrics to "fit" his interpretation of the Bible.
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Oh she sailed away on a sunny, sunny day
On the back of a croc-o-dile.
"You see," said she, "he's as tame as he can be!
I'll ride him down the Nile."
Well, the croc winked his eye as she waved them all good-bye,
Wearing a hap-py smile!
But at the end of the ride, the lady was inside,
And the smile was on the croc-o-dile!
There! It's taken months, but my poor old brain cells finally sorted it out! I'll let Waysider figure out how to add the hand gestures.
WG
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I remember all the hand gestures.
I especially liked the part where "the lady was inside".
That's the part where you rub your belly like you're full.
If you closed your eyes and concentrated real hard, you could imagine that the bowl of "swill deluxe with flax seeds" you had just eaten, had satisfied your hunger just like the lady had done for the croc.
50 grown men and women singing kid's songs after dinner in the BRC.
Wish I had a video of it. (except cam-corders hadn't been invented yet.)
It would probably win hands down on that wackiest videos show.
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My sister and I sang on that album, I believe, I was little, about the third grade at Indiana Campus. I think my mom still has that tape. I don't have the book anymore but do have the children's (red) sing along the way.
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"Swill with flax seeds"
Nature's little freight trains!
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TheHighWay, when we were Family 11 in Indiana I think someone taught us the Calypso roll-away, which inspired several different versions, with M. G a ^^ells' Hawaiian roll-away being the most popular. It started out slow to the tune of Aloha-Oi, with everyone standing and hula-ing:
So roll a-way, so roll a-way
Every burdon of my heart roll a-way-a
So roll a-way, so roll a-way
Every burdon of my heart roll away
Then, the tempo and tune changed to a guttral oooga-oooga-oooha kind of thing when it gets to the next part about "every sin has to go", etc.
There was also H. $tein's Jewish version where the words were changed to "every sin, it should go" and C. Wa !!er's Dylan version sung to the tune of "Lay Lady Lay". I loved this stuff. It made the drudgery of the corps program more tolerable and the kids seemed to love the sillyness of it.
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