r wienerMy next door neighbor, Carrie, taught me this one, she explained to me that this was a great song because, as everyone know, cat farts smell the worst, and I believed her.This is one I learned later but never liked as muchI never actually knew the real words to the Chiquita banana song, this is what I learnedOften times on long bus ride we would make up lyrics to row row row your boat, the most common one was this one but there were many variations.This song was imitating what the teachers probably sang in the teachers lounge when no kids were aroundThis was sung to the same tune but was taught to me by my friend Annie after retuning from Girl Scout camp while we were standing on the balcony in my parents bed roomAnother song that she taught us was a glorious song about underwear, to this day I still don't know the actual lyrics to "God Bless America""This Land is Your Land" is another patriotic song that I learned the actual lyrics after the parodyIn church one Sunday, the choir sang joyful joyful, and I was surprised to here it had the same tune as a song we often sang on car rides to my grand parents house.One time I was sight-reading through a fiddle book I had just gotten and I recognized the tune was similar to the tune of a song I had learned years before, I don't remember the name of the actual tune but I do remember the words of the songThis was a popular song every time we ate spaghettiWhile I was taking violin lessons, one of the first songs that I learned was Lightly Row. One night I played it for my grandpa over the telephone and these were the words that he taught me, as far as I know they are not the right onesThere was a kid in my children's choir named Jared Stoltzfus and his mom's name was Bonnie, we used to sing him this song to make him mad.At kid's b-day parties when your parents forced you to sing, this often got laugh, of at least a glare or twoI remember when I read the book Ramona Quimby and she knew the...
