My wife and I were talking about this very song just the other day, thinking about our upcoming ward Halloween party on the 30th, and wondering where to get the music. Now we have it! Fantastic!
Ardis, now if you would come up with the jack o lantern song that we sang in Primary every year I would love you. This wasn’t in any book, but the song leader would choose a child to come up front to a chalk board and draw jack o lanterns in time with the singing. It had to be drawn in a very precise way, also. Does anyone else remember this?
Back in the 1960s, a Primary children’s choir in Tempe, Arizona recorded an album with twelve songs, one for each month of the year. It was one of our family favorites and we played it over and over. This song was one of them, so it’s very familiar.
Do you know if this was ever published in any of the Children’s Song Books? I was so glad to find it here. I bought a 1930′s (not sure of exact publishing date) Primary Children’s Songbook in hopes of finding this song. Obviously, I went back too far.
Thank you.
Sylvia, I don’t think it ever appeared anywhere but the Children’s Friend. I can’t know for sure, but if it had appeared in a book I think I would have been able to find some trace of it online — it’s too charming NOT to have been listed somewhere! But I couldn’t find anything online except one or two other references to the same Children’s Friend publication.
I’m glad you found it here, too. You should stop by again!
Comment by Ardis E. Parshall — November 6, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
Thank you for putting this on here. No one could remember this song..even older people like me! I thought maybe my Primary was the only one to sing it. Thanks for sharing!
You know, I was 2 years old* when was published in the Friend but my mom must have picked it up when serving (several times) as the Primary pianist – we sang it at home AND in Primary!
Comment by Diane Peel — October 31, 2011 @ 6:31 pm
She’s a witch!
How do you know she’s a witch?
She turned me into a newt!
(everyone stares at the man)
Well, I got better….
(courtesy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Comment by Rameumptom — October 20, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
Who’d have thought Keepapitchinin would start pushing the Tea Party Agenda?
Comment by JimD — October 20, 2010 @ 2:44 pm
I must be getting old, I can remember this song, from my primary days.
You should send a link to Christine O’Donnell (“I am not a witch”), the republican/tea party candidate for Senator in Delaware
Comment by john willis — October 20, 2010 @ 2:47 pm
There may be no such thing as a witch, but there’s also no shortage of clowns!
Comment by Ardis E. Parshall — October 20, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
Shall we send them in?
Comment by JimD — October 20, 2010 @ 3:17 pm
I remember singing this, but I didn’t know it was in the Children’s Friend. Amazing.
Comment by Carol — October 20, 2010 @ 3:37 pm
I remember singing this in primary. I’m 33. Don’t know where that places me on the spectrum of readers here.
Comment by Becca — October 20, 2010 @ 10:35 pm
This was a family favorite when I was growing up, but I thought our family was the only one it the world who had ever heard of this song.
Comment by Clark — October 21, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
My wife and I were talking about this very song just the other day, thinking about our upcoming ward Halloween party on the 30th, and wondering where to get the music. Now we have it! Fantastic!
Comment by kevinf — October 21, 2010 @ 4:56 pm
Ardis, now if you would come up with the jack o lantern song that we sang in Primary every year I would love you. This wasn’t in any book, but the song leader would choose a child to come up front to a chalk board and draw jack o lanterns in time with the singing. It had to be drawn in a very precise way, also. Does anyone else remember this?
Comment by Maurine — October 21, 2010 @ 8:59 pm
Back in the 1960s, a Primary children’s choir in Tempe, Arizona recorded an album with twelve songs, one for each month of the year. It was one of our family favorites and we played it over and over. This song was one of them, so it’s very familiar.
Comment by Confutus — October 23, 2010 @ 3:26 am
Do you know if this was ever published in any of the Children’s Song Books? I was so glad to find it here. I bought a 1930′s (not sure of exact publishing date) Primary Children’s Songbook in hopes of finding this song. Obviously, I went back too far.
Thank you.
Comment by Sylvia Hammond — November 6, 2010 @ 4:26 pm
Sylvia, I don’t think it ever appeared anywhere but the Children’s Friend. I can’t know for sure, but if it had appeared in a book I think I would have been able to find some trace of it online — it’s too charming NOT to have been listed somewhere! But I couldn’t find anything online except one or two other references to the same Children’s Friend publication.
I’m glad you found it here, too. You should stop by again!
Comment by Ardis E. Parshall — November 6, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
Thank you for putting this on here. No one could remember this song..even older people like me! I thought maybe my Primary was the only one to sing it. Thanks for sharing!
Comment by Kim B. — October 31, 2011 @ 2:05 pm
You know, I was 2 years old* when was published in the Friend but my mom must have picked it up when serving (several times) as the Primary pianist – we sang it at home AND in Primary!
Comment by Diane Peel — October 31, 2011 @ 6:31 pm