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Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart's calculatin'
My true love will be waitin', be waiting at the end of my ride.

Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide!
Set 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in Rawhide.


Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rawhide!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide!
Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal was by my side.
All the things I'm missin',
Good vittles, love, and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride

CHORUS
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide
Count 'em out, ride 'em in,
Ride 'em in, count 'em out,
Count 'em out, ride 'em in
Rawhide!

Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them dogies movin'
Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope, throw, and brand 'em
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
My hearts calculatin'
My true love will be waitin',
Be waitin' at the end of my ride.

Rawhide!
Rawhide!

Has anyone ever wondered who invented Robotic Dancing???
Well it was me! I was in the garden one day, aged about 12 and my Dad shouted something out of the window at me. I cant remember what it was now, but i replied by sticking my two fingers up at him.
Together with the grim look on Dads face and realisation of what i had just done, i proceeded to jerk my body around like something demented, with hands and fingers pointing in all different directions.
Dad face was all screwed up, his eyes were squinted with a look of.....did she or didnt she?
Got away with it by the skin of teeth........ !!!

Susan !! that would have been the good old stand-by Gentian Violet !!
I don`t think I can recall a child in our village who esaped it ! (in my case it was daubed on me when I got impetigo!)
Another `old favourite ` was Friars Balsam..... oh how I hated it... as soon as I coughed or sneezed mum would make up a bowl of boiling water & Friars Balsam & I had to inhale the steam... & a towel over my head made sure the steam never got away! I am , to this day, quite claustrophobic & I`m sure it came from being forced to go" under the towel" ( but one day I decided to get rid of it, & tipped it on dads lawn....it burnt a large area & he could smell what had been put on it.....I was in trouble that day !!!

LOL Susan,

I was threatened by my mother once to have my mouth washed out with soap,
because I swore , I said 'bleddy' and I never knew my mother was behind me , boy did I get an ear lashing right across my face as well !!

I had an ear ache after that,and my mother said you wont say that again !
will you my girl ?

Oh dear , and to think what what they say now at the age of 13yrs !!

When i was "nowt but a wee nipper" i used to play with the lad across the road. A right little tearaway was he. His mother was always chasing him around the garden with a wooden spoon with cries of "you wait till yer father gets ome." One particular day he said "if i show you mine, will you show me yours?" He showed me his and i ran home!
I reminded him of this little "incident" during my speach at my 50th birthday party, in front of 140 people and you should have seen the look on his face! Mind you it was nothing compared to the look on my Dads!
I also reminded him of the fact that i thought our local clinic was actually the hair dressers because at least once a month, he would come out of there with his hair dyed purple!!!! x

I was always with a gang of lads until about 15, then Mum got worried about it and stopped it! Sex wasnt thought of, didnt even kiss any of them good night! My charm I was told in my twenties was that I always had a smile when any lads chi-icked me!

I suggest you wash your mouth out with a bar of Lifeboy Marilyn!!!

Age of Innocence.....

Sex was never mentioned when I was a child it was evil ,dirty, never discussed. So I used to spend all my time playing hop scotch and post man knock ending with the light off,everyone coupled off - just for 'necking' ...nothing more , until I was about 16yrs .........


Then it all went belly up ....!!! LOL

Another one to tickle your fancy!

Twizzle (1957)

MusicI’m a very special boy, Twizzle.
A very extra clever toy, Twizzle.
I’ve got a very special trick — just you wait and see.
When I start to go cri-crick, I’m taller than a tree!

I can make my arms long if I twizzle,
I can make my legs long if I twizzle,
When I walk along the road and see a wall,
O, I just start to crick myself,
I just start to crick myself until I’m tall.

I’m a very special toy, Twizzle,
An extra special twizzly toy, Twizzle,
Sometimes I can make myself so wee and small,
Sometimes I can twizzle till I’m very very tall.
I’m a very special toy, Twizzle,
Such a very clever toy, Twizzle,

My friends just watch me crick,
It’s such a lovely trick,
O, I love to grow just like a tree,
No other toy can crick like me,
I’m very special you can see,
’Cos I’m Twizzle.

I need a cake now Christina!

Very good Marilyn ......

That reminded me of an advert

Change to Brookbond
Brookbond Pg Tips
Change to Brookbond
Brookbond Pg Tips
All the family love it
Smiling and happy faced
Brookbond Tea has extra flavour, tea you can really taste!

Is'nt it funny how someone can ask me something about last week and i'm like ... Dah!!! and yet that song from about 50 years ago came flying off the top of my head hhhmmmmm, right funny that! Susan x

What about pictures on a Saturday morning, Minors of the ABC

We are the boys and girls well known as
Minors of the ABC
And every Saturday all line up
To see the films we like and shout aloud with glee
We like to laugh and have our sing song
What a happy crowd are we
We`re all friends together
We`re minors of the ABC

Casey Jones, steaming and a rolling
Casey Jones,you never have to guess
When you hear the hooting of the whistle
Its Casey round the corner in his Cannonball Express

Lots of memories, great thread

Marilyn

oh Carol !! I had a `Merlin the Magician ` !! I thought it was just marvellous !
I remember the big bacon slicers, and that reminded me of those big red weighing scales in woolworths which, for some reason, all us kids demanded to be weighed on ! (oh, the simple pleasures !)
and don`t forget buying hot roasted & salted peanuts by the 1/4 lb ,in a little greasproof bag that still let the grease through !
I was thinking back to mums old iron... she had two flat irons, both were heated on the gas stove, & one was used, then swapped for the other one when it cooled down !(in our old house, they went on the range to heat up) THEN !! (so exciting!) dad got her her first elecric iron !! it had to be plugged into the light instead of the bulb, so no ironing at night ! it was a long time till she got a proper plug job !
She used to make lots of cakes, did Mum, especially Xmas cakes, but the fruit then (which was delivered by the Grocer, wrapped in blue paper `twists`, ) all had to be washed first, then spread out to dry on big trays. us kids would manage to eat alot of it before it ever got weighed to go in the cakes ! When she made her fantastic sponge cakes, all beating of butter & sugar etc had to be done with a fork /wooden spoon, no food mixers then, & I have never managed to achieve the same quality cake as she did, so I bought packet !(much to her disgust!!)
makes me hungry just thinking of those cakes !mmmmm
Tina x

In case you cant remember the words .........

After 3..........

Torchy the Battery Boy



Torchy, Torchy the little battery boy
I’m a clever walkie-talkie toy
With bright blue eyes and golden hair
I’ve a magic beam that can shine anywhere.

Torch-y-y, Torch-y- y!
The little battery boy.

Torchy, Torchy the battery boy,
I’m a walkie-talkie toy,
Press my switch, see my bulb start to gleam,
It’s the most magic light you-u-u ha-a-a-ve seen!

taaa daaa!

Hey Carol, you have just jogged my memory about the typewriter. It took you three weeks to type ............ Dear Aunty Gladys, thankyou for the Christmas present!

I am going to fish out my recorder and play .... Torchy Torchy the battery boy!!!

jan5o ....you was rich . rags !!..... I had brown paper strips in my hair ..LOL

I wish I could relive the excitement of those freezing Christmas mornings, waking in the early morning and tingling with excitement at the day to come.
Not just the presents and food, but the camaraderie......going to neighbour's houses for a glass of cherry for grown ups and cordial or green ginger wine for us; then getting out into the snowy slushy streets to relatives to exchange presents and drink & eat more.
Repeating all the Carols from the night before ..........such memories !!

Anyone remember Provident Cheques! or that tin money from the Co-Op.
I remember being given a spoon of malt at school, cod liver oil tablets, nitty nora, warm milk in little bottles. Toys anyone remember Merlin the Magican, you woul place him on a question and he would spin around and stop pointing at the correct answer, or about those typewriters where you had to turn the dial to each individual letter.
Listen with Mother.
Muffin the Mule.
Saturday Morning Picture Club.

I can remember 13 out of 14, and I am extremely young!

But I am from Australia, and we are very backward here.


xxxxxx mick

Oh Jan-we must have been "posh" cos mine was held in place with "Amarmi" (i think thats how it was spelt) setting lotion, hair would'nt have moved in a hurricane!!!! it was torture, i can still recall the pain now, and a "Twink" home perm was a must if you were a bridsmaid, i looked as though i'd had my fingers in the electric socket, i cringe looking at the old photos. Oh-the good ole days!!!!
Thank you Susan-Great thread

OMG! Rags in your hair to make ringlets. Gee, did I suffer from those before being a bridesmaid or whatever! Did your Mum "set" them with sugar and water? Mind did to make them hold - the days before sophisticated hair products, eh!