Comments on: Songs At School

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:25:16 +0000

By the wqy, whatever age you are, if you did these songs at school, here is the info you’re looking for: http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/Time_and_Tune#Episode_Guide

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:23:41 +0000

I just learned the actual truth about this… It was a program called “Time and tune” and the Jim McSocket song (not McSprocket) has the following details (it came from the 1988 “Over The Moon” series, by the way):

Jim McSocket

Words and music by Stephen Chadwick.

Jim McSocket built a rocket, went to conquer space.
And as he whizzed past all the stars, he crash landed on Mars.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:13:23 +0000

Jim McSprocket built a rocket,
went to conquer space,
but as he whizzed past all the stars,
he crash landed on Mars.

Or something like that, is how I remember one section.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:36:24 +0000

for some reason I have been getting jim mcsprocket in my head. Annoyingly, what i recall is rather hazy:

jim mcsprocket
built a rocket
To go (?) to outer space
but all he did (?) was use a dustbin lid (?) in the back of his garden shed.

The interwebz does not have this song. How can that be? Surely someone has the lyrics?

By: Julian Bray

Julian Bray — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:19:07 +0000

I remember the song books Andy Pilkington talks of.
They were called ‘Time and Tune’
The whole class listened to tapes of the songs and stories and played along with tambourines,drums and various percussion instruments etc,it was good fun!
I think the ‘little tribal village’ one had the famous song “La Cucaracha”.
Amazingly the football song is the one I remember as well from the football team story.
I often have the song in my head for some strange reason,infact thats why I done a websearch just this second and found this page!!!

By: Andy Pilkington

Andy Pilkington — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:08:15 +0000

I remember books very similar – and have been trying to find info about them for ages. I was at school earlier than you – born in the 70s – but I’m sure it’s the same thing.

I remember two ‘song books’. One was about a little tribal village and life there… one memorable tune was in descending scale to the words “tinkle tinkle, water for our crops…”

And one was a football team story with their highs and lows, of which I can remember much more of one song..
“When you have fallen,
Down from the ladder,
That you were scaling up high to success…
You lose your appetite
And nothing goes quite right
You find your life in a mess.
There’s nothing sadder
Than a team in distress.”

Amazing really… about 28 years ago and I still remember the tune. Wish I could find more to tweak the nostalgia button a bit more…

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:52:12 +0000

Those books were called Ahmen apparently. I also remembered a song about “If I was a wiggly worm”.