@Chrispydelic 556004 wrote:
Really?
yep, the secular (i.e broadly but not obviously C of E) ]infant school i went to sang it but not the Catholic private junior school and even the supposedly secular junior school in West Berkshire avoided the song through the Thatcho era. It was sung on the BBC sometimes but folk like Mary Whitehouse complained (also when Soo joined Sooty and Sweep, even though as a panda she is not strictly a bear anyway (maybe it was the thought of a mixed race relationship which made the right wingers even more angry!)
We did get shown at age 10/11 a 16mm film licensed by the BBC about how cats, dogs and humans reproduced).it was about 3 episodes of “Merry Go Round” spliced together and with a spectacularly bad dodgy optical soundtrack,it reminded me more of the bit in Threads where they get the electric back on and start showing “words and pictures” on a schools issue TV)
I always thought male mice played little part in the raising of their families (unlike the rat which is often monogamous where resources permit) but apparently in some North Europe domesticated male mice have learned to coexist together as mouse breeders over centuries selected the friendlier ones (as unlikely as this seems, small rodents were originally kept for pets by pest controllers who noticed some were different colours and decided to keep the pretty ones…)
This mouse he got lonesome, he took him a wife
A windmill with mice in, it’s hardly surprisin’
She sang every morning, “How lucky I am,
Living in a windmill in old Amsterdam!”
First they had triplets and then they had quins
A windmill with quins in, and triplets and twins in
They sang every morning, “How lucky we are
Living in a windmill in Amsterdam, ya!”
Het muisje was eenzaam en zocht naar een vrouw
En piep zei een muis in het voorhuis, ik trouw
En dus zongen ze samen: wat is het toch fijn
Een muis in een molen in Mokum te zijn
Ma muis kreeg een vijfling en allen gezond
Dus aten ze muisjes beschuitjes met muisjes
En iedereen zong toen: wat is het toch fijn
Een muis in een molen in Mokum te zijn
