My Son, when he was 6-7, and now my daughter, at the same age, study the Katie Morag stories by Mairi Hedderwick.
They are sweet tales about a little girl who lives on the fictitious Isle of Struay, off the coast of Scotland. Beautiul illustrations and stories. Lil Man loved them when he first started studying them, so I bought a small box set of the books.
One of the stories was …
Katie Morag and the Grand Concert
A cute story about Katie getting to sing in a local concert.
She starts of singing an old traditional Scottish childrens song.
The Song of Two Grandmothers.
Oh you cannae shove your granny of a bus!
No you cannae shove your granny off a bus!
Oh you cannae shove your granny,
Cos she’s your mammy’s mammy,
No you cannae shove your granny off a bus!
(Sung to the tune of “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain”)
The kids had a giggle, they loved the song, then came the second verse
You can shove your other granny of a bus,
Yes, you can shove your other granny off a bus!
You can shove your other granny
Cos she’s your daddy’s Mammy,
You can shove your other granny off a bus!
Oops! I had to stop them singing that! (But I couldn’t!)
My mother found it hilarious, but then she finds anything the kids do funny, but my mother in law might have been a tad offended at that one. She possibly wouldn’t have understood that it was only a song… and would have thought that I was teaching them to ‘push her off a bus’!!
And Lil Princess would have been around 4, so trying to stop a 4 year old from singing things…IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Then Hubby Dearest was slightly concerned… “What kind of songs are you teaching the kids??!”
But its just a traditional rhyme, a little light hearted jest!
And once I read the story, it stays in my head for days!
As Lil Princess pulled the story out yesterday, I just had to share it with you today!
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