I love you a bushel and a peck.........

A couple of days ago my oldest grand daughter, Brittany, called & said 'taotao, I forgot one of the lines to You are my sunshine', she sang what she remembered & I sang the rest back to her. There are a few songs that were sung to me when I was very young, by my Grandma Black. (She is my mothers mother). When I was a very young teenager & lived with her for a period of time,( around 1950 ) she would wake me every morning with: 'Wake up you sleepy head, get up, get out of bed, when the red, red, robin goes bob bob bob'in along, along......the other song was 'I love you, a bushel & a peck, a bushel and a peck annnnnd, a hug around the neck. A hug around the neck, and a barrel and a heap, A barrel and a heap, & I'm talking in my sleep, about you,about you, frances ann, about you. Doodle, doodle, doo, doo, doodle, doodle, doo, doo, doodle, doodle, doo,do, do.........I love you, a bushel and a peck, ya bet your pretty neck, I do'. Then of course, there was 'You are my Sunshine', the Rock a bye baby, etcetra. Then came Vicki, (my daughter), Brittany, (my first grand daughter) Lauren,( my second grand daughter).........same songs, only I had to intercept her name into the bushel & a peck song. But, 'you are my sunshine' has always had a special meaning between lauren & I. I am singing all the same songs to Rileigh Shae (my third grand daughter) now. She is going to be three in February. I sang these same songs to my daughter, Vicki, when she was a baby. We lived in an old farmhouse in Chandler, Oklahoma @the time. As I would climb the stairs every morning to wake her, she would hear 'When the red, red, robin song & would be squealing in delight by the time I reached the top of the stairs.

Brittany will give birth to my great grand daughter in April, 2009. She says she is singing all these songs to her fiance, Jeff. I think she is just practicing for the arrival of Sara Presley Wells.