What songs do you sing?

I don't mind getting old. It has been rather fun. But two things get me. Controllers. Younger friends who think they have to take control of what I am doing because I am old. Did I do that when I was younger? Tell all my elderly friends and relatives how to do what needs doing? Grab things from their hands and do the fixing for them? Did I do that when I was younger? Don't ask. I'm not telling.

Second grumpy gripe: Scientists and their researches. Have you ever noticed how many research reports about us old folk always end with age 80? If we are over 80, we are - to their thinking - senile. I just read another last night. And, yes, I sent him a piece of my mind.

Really, I am going to have to stop sending young whippersnappers pieces of my mind. Soon I will be ????????

Happy Days. Maxine
 

Pecos said:
LOL, nobody should be subjected to hearing me sing.
But in the car alone with the windows rolled up doing 50 or more, why not let it rip.
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i've always felt bad about my singing but my millennial daughter who lives with me reminds me that my children, grandson and furbabies have always seemed to like it when i sing to them.
 

Gaer said:
I play my rock and roll all the time and sing along with Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney, Johnny Rivers and the Platters, the Fleetwoods, the Rightous Bros., Nancy Wilson, Johhny Burnett, Sarah Vaughn, the Lettermen, Peter, Paul and Mary, Elvis. Johnny Horton, etc.
Music keeps me ina happy mood. I dance around and sing with no one around anywhere
One of the good things about living alone!
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That's me too. i'll put on one of those long playing music of the 60s and or 70's or of one favorite artist/group from back in the day while doing housework. Had my daughter make 2 mix cds of my favorites for when i'm going into city for medical appts by myself. (when we're going shopping together we talk on the hour long trip).
Keesha said:
I love to sing and sing a lot. I sing at home all the time but usually when my husbands goes to work or in the forest while walking the dogs since the acoustics are so nice. My favourite songs are ballads and I also love singing Christmas songs. Of course I’ve made a small list of songs


Christmas carols

Mary do you know
Silent night
Oh holy night
The Christmas song
Have yourself a Merry little Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year
Last Christmas
All I want for Christmas is you
Oh little town of Bethlehem
Believe
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Mistletoe
Angels we have heard on high

Ballads I like to sing

Somewhere over the rainbow
Hallelujah
Killing me softly
Creep
Make you feel my love
I will always love you
Amazing Grace
Sunshine on my shoulder
If I could save time in a bottle
Careless whisper
Kiss from a rose
Purple rain
The rain song
Against all odds
I have nothing
Stairway to heaven
Comfortably numb
Desperado
I can’t tell you why
Free bird
Wild horses
Imagine
Carpet crawlers
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Like your list. Two of my favorite Christmas songs are melancholy ones: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and I'll Be Home for Christmas. They are melancholy for me not just because of the lyrics but because my mother, who had a beautiful singing voice used to sing them. (She died in 1985) never got meet my daughter who is fifth generation of maternal line with same first name.)
 
My radio is on all day in my apartment, and I listen to Top 40/Pop music all the time ... don't want to get behind on the music trends :)
I like upbeat and trendy stuff.

Older music has its place for me, and I have many favorites, but I just couldn't live on a steady diet of older songs ..they would bring me down.
 
maxine said:
I don't mind getting old. It has been rather fun. But two things get me. Controllers. Younger friends who think they have to take control of what I am doing because I am old. Did I do that when I was younger? Tell all my elderly friends and relatives how to do what needs doing? Grab things from their hands and do the fixing for them? Did I do that when I was younger? Don't ask. I'm not telling.

Second grumpy gripe: Scientists and their researches. Have you ever noticed how many research reports about us old folk always end with age 80? If we are over 80, we are - to their thinking - senile. I just read another last night. And, yes, I sent him a piece of my mind.

Really, I am going to have to stop sending young whippersnappers pieces of my mind. Soon I will be ????????

Happy Days. Maxine
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Nah...you should keep on challenging them. Next month i'll be halfway thru my 70's. i have friends older and younger as i have throughout my life. My daughter often throws my age and way of thinking down as gauntlet for Boomers and Gen X's who try to use their age as an excuse for well almost anything but especially lazy thinking.

Not all scientists think we're all on the brink of senility or already there. There's a book called "The Brain That Changes Itself" about neuroplasticity. If the brain can be retrained to overcome physical challenges it can certainly be trained to stay sharp, observant and capable of solving problems. There's also a documentary by same name narrated by the author, Norman Doidge, MD (Psychiatrist) on Amazon Prime.
 
Bonnie said:
My radio is on all day in my apartment, and I listen to Top 40/Pop music all the time ... don't want to get behind on the music trends :)
I like upbeat and trendy stuff.

Older music has its place for me, and I have many favorites, but I just couldn't live on a steady diet of older songs ..they would bring me down.
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My millennial daughter lives with me (we both love solitude, she works full time and we share all expenses, works well for us) i've always been open to exploring newer music as well as my old favorites. For me good lyrics important. Were i from a later generation, however, Pink's "Raise Your Glass" would have been my theme song for quite a while.
And about 15 yrs ago i discovered modern country music. My eldest sister had controlled the radio most of my childhood and she was a real fan of all the classic 'somebody done somebody wrong' songs--so i could not abide it (save for Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton) for decades. Then came the ones with poignant lyrics after the millenium and i gained respect for the genre.
 
From when I was a teenager and got to see Nat King Cole perform in person. I keep singing "They try to tell Us we're too young."And of course, Johnny Mathis singing "Misty".I was just singing "Misty" this morning and my husband kept coming into the kitchen thinking I had youtube on and he told me to lower the sound because he couldn't hear the news on the TV.So after I hit him on the head (I wish)I continued to sing.
 
For some reason, Leonard Cohen's Bird on a Wire popped into my head while I was making lunch, so I just had to start singing it! I only know the words to the first verse so I just sung that over and over. :)
 
"Bird on a Wire" is part of my play list, too, along with all the ones @Gaer listed.
I Think the Platters are my very favorite to listen to while I play online Hearts. I have all the lyrics to their songs memorized by now. Their lead singer is just amazing.

Oddly though, in spite of knowing all those songs, when I'm mindlessly vacuuming or cooking I find myself singing Christmas songs all year long, and I always sing "Tammy" in the shower.

Today being Sunday, I'm listening to Alan Jackson's gospel album. My dog hates for me to sing along with him because she thinks I'm growling.
 
Naw I never sing outloud since I loathe the sound of my own voice even just to talk let alone sing. And I've been told that by others that they don't like the sound of my voice either. But I sing this song silently to myself (it's my "theme song"0:

 
HoneyNut said:
One good thing about living alone is that I feel uninhibited enough to sing out loud even though I can't hit a note or carry a tune.

But, there are only a couple songs that I know a few lyrics from and I would like to increase my repertoire. At breakfast I tend to sing the one stanza I know from 'Morning has Broken', and if things go wrong in life I break out the "Yesterday, all my Troubles Seemed So Far Away".

What do you sing? What songs do you know that have easy-to-remember lyrics/tunes that maybe I could try singing?
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I used to be a worship leader in the Vineyard movement back in the 90's. So I sing a lot of songs written by people like Andy Park, Cindy Rethmeier, David Ruis, Brian Doerksen, others, and dozens that I've penned myself. I find this helps me deal with my chronic health issues.
 
When I was a teenager I went to dances 3 nights a week. I don't dance anymore, but if we are in the car and a song comes on from my teen years I sing to it and dance in my seat. About 15 yrs ago we were driving and of course, I was singing and dancing in my seat. A car pulled up beside
us and motioned to my husband to pull over. I was afraid something was wrong. The guy came over to the car and said "Barbara is that you ?' I said yes then he said I knew it when I saw you dancing. He turned out to be a guy I would dance with at the dances years ago. How he recognized me I'll never know.
 
Sassycakes said:
When I was a teenager I went to dances 3 nights a week. I don't dance anymore, but if we are in the car and a song comes on from my teen years I sing to it and dance in my seat. About 15 yrs ago we were driving and of course, I was singing and dancing in my seat. A car pulled up beside
us and motioned to my husband to pull over. I was afraid something was wrong. The guy came over to the car and said "Barbara is that you ?' I said yes then he said I knew it when I saw you dancing. He turned out to be a guy I would dance with at the dances years ago. How he recognized me I'll never know.
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Must have some swing.
 
Back in the 40s, grandma played this song on her piano while a bunch of us would sing our hearts out.


Mademoiselle from Armentieres, Parlez-vous,
Mademoiselle from Armentieres, Parlez-vous,
Mademoiselle from Armentieres,
She hasn't been kissed for forty years.

Hinky-dinky parlez-vous.

Our top kick in Armentieres, Parlez-vous,
Our top kick in Armentieres, Parlez-vous,
Our top kick in Armentieres,
Soon broke the spell of forty years

Hinky-dinky parlez-vous.

The officers get all the steak, Parlez-vous,
The officers get all the steak, Parlez-vous,
The officers get all the steak,
And all we get is the belly-ache.

Hinky-dinky parlez-vous.

From gay Paree we heard guns roar, Parlez-vous,
From gay Paree we heard guns roar, Parlez-vous,
From gay Paree we heard guns roar,
But all we heard was "Je t'adore",

Hinky-dinky parlez-vous.

You might forget the gas and shell, Parlez-vouz,
You might forget the gas and shell, Parlez-vouz,
You might forget the gas and shell,
You'll never forget the mademoiselle,

Hinky-dinky parlez-vous

 

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