Comments on: “There’s No Such Thing as a Witch!”

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:36:05 +0000

P.S. Good LUCK in stopping singing this once you start, this will stay with you for DAYS!;-]

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:34:59 +0000

OH, I’M SO GLAD I BROUGHT THIS UP WITH FACEBOOK FRIENDS… I still have a really torn up copy from the Children’s Friend, and it warms my heart to know I’m not the only one who loves this song. As a side note, a lady in our ward named Dwan Young (later general president!) was our primary chorister and taught this to us! I’m glad to see this get around! :-}

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:31:50 +0000

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!

By: Kim B.

Kim B. — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:05:21 +0000

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!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:17:26 +0000

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!

By: Sylvia Hammond

Sylvia Hammond — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:26:53 +0000

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.

By: Confutus

Confutus — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:26:45 +0000

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.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:59:37 +0000

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?

By: kevinf

kevinf — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:56:43 +0000

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!

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:33:47 +0000

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.