Down Memory Lane

[MrsChocT]

I remember this song.....heard it when some boy's scouts were singing and I've never forgotten it

Ewa Jamseeeeeee, eee Jamseeeee ewa ( James' beans)
Ewa ti o lata, eeeeeeee Jamseeeee ewa (Beans wey no get pepper)
Ewa ti o lepo, eeeeee Jamseeeeeeee ewa (Beans wey no get oyeli)

I was a brownie.....was anyone a girl's guide? Or boy's scout?

[MrsChocT]

Originally Posted by oluomo

I will never look at any of you ladies the same way again. To think that i regard some babes here as true born "ajeburra". I am disappointed

Many ajeburras have mixed with many ajepakis....so kini big deal?

Hmmm, even nowadays sef, all these parents dey pay big big money to send pikin to school....only hear their English sentences end in "oya now" or is it the perteptual problem of calling everything "th" "ti"....Thing is tin or tank you instead of thank you.

All that big money any no result. Pikin sabi cram, sabi pass but to speak English proper..hmm na wahala........when the teachers are not even qualified, what can one say? What is the average qualification requirement for a teacher in Nigeria........cos some of my secondary school teachers could blow grammar and ya roof will explode.......We called them onibion.....

[MrsChocT]

@Valteena, here's a big hug from me.................I had been searching for that song, never knew the name...all I knew was that Silifat stole oporoko fish...........Kai, I love NVS...........Kai, I go show off..........

[Ph3y]

After reading all these accounts, is it safe to say we were all a bunch of R-A-Z-Z kids growing up? Ga-lly! I'm sure some people here are products of Saint Saviour's, Adrao, Corona, Unilag Staff School of back in the day oh, UI Staff School, and that other one that happened to also be in UI....can't remember the name now! Ihave a feeling the househelps must have helped play a "significant" role in all of this!

Well me i went to iyanfoworogi primary school in kulende...e remain small sef, Adedibu for be my class mate....but i was a few years behind him....

BTW Great count, lemme help you conclude that your list: HID Awolowo, Abraham Adesanya, Anthony enahoro, Fatai rolling dollar etc..

[valteena]

Originally Posted by Auspicious

OH-MY-GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

Who found this? AH SAY WHO FOUND THIS??!!!!

That just takes you waaaaaay back!

2A Excercise book. HB Pencil. 2B(?) Excercise Book.

I remember the pride that comes from using the bigger one.

You know, the taller excercise book? What's it called again, anyone?

Gosh, I came to ask for help with a song that just popped into my head,

Only to run into Valteena's excercise book. Do you guys know its from Ekiti?

"Omolayo Standard Press", I believe it was (is?) called.

Anyway, who remembers this song (can't remember the whole thing):

"I love my country, I nor go lie!

Na hinside am I go live and die!

(Hmm-Hmm-Hmm, Hmm-Hmm-Hmm-Hmm)

'E push me, ah push am, ah nor go-go!

Anyone?

Funny thread I say!

I can't get over that excercise book.

Next we'd see is Valteena's Primary 2 picture.

Oya Val, I dare you to post the photo - I QUANTRIPULE DARE YOU!

For VOR photo; dem never hinvent camera when eim dey elementary.

Auspicious.

Auspy I am never one to refuse to rise up to a dare/challenge. So be prepared to be dazzled by the "little beautiful princess" that Valteena was in primary two. I dey go come.. You go wait tire lol

On second thought I might just show you. Make I show am or not people?

[valteena]

Originally Posted by VOR

Who is in the garden
A little fine girl
Can I come and see her
No No No
Follow me.......

KSA (King Sunny Ade) sings this in Yoruba......brilliant!!

Ta lowa ninu ogba na
Omo kekere kan ni
se kin wa wo
e wa wo o.....odara pupo...................(AKIKA!!)

Also

Labe igi orombo
Ibe la gbe sere wa
Inu wa dun
Ara wa ya
Labe igi orombo
(Under the fruit tree...this is where we play....we are happy..we are fit...under the fruit tree)

Ahh!!!! Olori .

[MsWoman]

Yeeeeeh! Uncle Bros Count 1:

Mrs. Karunwi…….Mrs. Doherty (very loving, pear-shaped woman who wore what is fondly referred to as spectacles). She was sooo sweet! I remember Staff School of those days and those brown ghostly-looking classroom buildings……By any chance do you remember Mrs. Fajebe?

Bros Count so me and you go Unilag Stavv School! I said iii-iit! Then some of those names……some of those names……..in fact, I have written threads on this NVS about some of those names above! Oh my God Count 1…….did driver drop you in school or did you do the Staff School bus gig?

Yes, those names were certainly above me….some of them were most definitely “Aunty” and “Uncle” to me gan sef! They used to even come and look my sister and I up in class sef just to make sure we were okay! But the fact that me and Oga Bros Count 1 were in Staff School at the same time tells me, I am old! Chai!

[netotse]

@MsWoman and Count!
yay! we all want to unilag staff school,(even though i was like 30something years after y'all)

@valteena
lol...i dont know about you but michael jackson stole my ponmo cos i didnt want to give him garri

@er'one
the song about going to america and london, is it the one where u guys used to promise to go and kill hitler?

[Count1]

Originally Posted by MsWoman

Yeeeeeh! Uncle Bros Count 1:

Mrs. Karunwi…….Mrs. Doherty (very loving, pear-shaped woman who wore what is fondly referred to as spectacles). She was sooo sweet! I remember Staff School of those days and those brown ghostly-looking classroom buildings……By any chance do you remember Mrs. Fajebe?

Bros Count so me and you go Unilag Stavv School! I said iii-iit! Then some of those names……some of those names……..in fact, I have written threads on this NVS about some of those names above! Oh my God Count 1…….did driver drop you in school or did you do the Staff School bus gig?

Yes, those names were certainly above me….some of them were most definitely “Aunty” and “Uncle” to me gan sef! They used to even come and look my sister and I up in class sef just to make sure we were okay! But the fact that me and Oga Bros Count 1 were in Staff School at the same time tells me, I am old! Chai!

MsWoman,

Or that I am young

The Count

[MrsChocT]

If you don't know this song, then you didn't go to school in Nigeria. This was a hit and still continues to be a hit.......

John Bull my son, I sent you to school,
You don't know how to spell your name



(Pls who the heck was John Bull, I am still trying to figure this out)

[Count1]

Originally Posted by Ph3y

Well me i went to iyanfoworogi primary school in kulende...e remain small sef, Adedibu for be my class mate....but i was a few years behind him....

BTW Great count, lemme help you conclude that your list: HID Awolowo, Abraham Adesanya, Anthony enahoro, Fatai rolling dollar etc..

Feyi,

Let me catch you!

The Count

[Count1]

Originally Posted by MsWoman

Yeeeeeh! Uncle Bros Count 1:

Mrs. Karunwi…….Mrs. Doherty (very loving, pear-shaped woman who wore what is fondly referred to as spectacles). She was sooo sweet! I remember Staff School of those days and those brown ghostly-looking classroom buildings……By any chance do you remember Mrs. Fajebe?

Bros Count so me and you go Unilag Stavv School! I said iii-iit! Then some of those names……some of those names……..in fact, I have written threads on this NVS about some of those names above! Oh my God Count 1…….did driver drop you in school or did you do the Staff School bus gig?

Yes, those names were certainly above me….some of them were most definitely “Aunty” and “Uncle” to me gan sef! They used to even come and look my sister and I up in class sef just to make sure we were okay! But the fact that me and Oga Bros Count 1 were in Staff School at the same time tells me, I am old! Chai!

MsWoman,

Did me and you know the same Mrs Doherty? The one who could silence a noisy class with a glare and make you quake in your shoes with one look?
Such a great educationist! We were to celebrate 40 years of leaving Staff School, and Morin was organizing it I don't know what happened.

Please disect me to the threads you wrote on them. I would love to read what you wrote.

The Count

[Count1]

Originally Posted by netotse

@MsWoman and Count!
yay! we all want to unilag staff school,(even though i was like 30something years after y'all)

@valteena
lol...i dont know about you but michael jackson stole my ponmo cos i didnt want to give him garri

@er'one
the song about going to america and london, is it the one where u guys used to promise to go and kill hitler?

Netotse,

great to know we have something in common.
@ Ms Woman, he has categorized us together

The Count

[valteena]

Originally Posted by MrsChocT

I remember this song.....heard it when some boy's scouts were singing and I've never forgotten it

Ewa Jamseeeeeee, eee Jamseeeee ewa ( James' beans)
Ewa ti o lata, eeeeeeee Jamseeeee ewa (Beans wey no get pepper)
Ewa ti o lepo, eeeeee Jamseeeeeeee ewa (Beans wey no get oyeli)

I was a brownie.....was anyone a girl's guide? Or boy's scout?

MrsChocT that our Brownie (brownish uniform) fine no be small o with the beret and I can imagine you looking cute in yours. We girls do look so cute in it. We use to debate which uniform fine pass between our brownie uniform and the girls guide blue one.

When my mumsy starch and iron mine here en? na so e go tanda kampe and glister. Infact the edges fit cut your hand if you no careful. Likewise my school uniform too Na proper cotton poplin dem dey take sow uniforms then no be the fake bad quality polyester of today wey the thread go dey pull out. No ragamuffin, unkept looking child is allowed in school lol. We all always look crispy clean and smartly dressed.

[Soul Sista]

All you ajeburras, wich of you dance Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa dance for primary?

These were some of the Yoruba dance songs we did:

Adebisi de mi l'alejo
Kila o ti seyi si?
Kii je'yan, ki je'resi
Af'eyin opolo!
Ki la o fi s'opolo
Ata rodo pelu tomati la ofi s'opolo
Pamu rege idi, mu rege idi, mu rege idi

Adebisi came to visit me
What do I do now?
She does not eat pounded yam, she does not eat rice
Only frog eggs!
How shall one cook the frog?
One shall use habanero peppers and tomatoes to cook the frog
Pamu rege bottom, mu rege bottom, mu rege bottom

Were were ni ina jo
To ba jo, a bu yaya
Were were ni ina jo
To ba jo, a bu yaya
A bu a bu yaya
A bu a bu yaya

Slowly, slowly, the fire burns
When it burns, it becomes more fiery
It becomes more fiery, fiery, fiery

Ododo yi o
Naira melo ni ododo mi o?
(Can't remember the rest)

This flower o
How much is this flower o?

All the above acted out in dance with our small bodies twisting and turning in our aso oke tied above our prepubescent chests. What won't one do for a one day journey, just one day, back into those days without cares?

[valteena]

Soul Sister lol I remember this too and the dance move is "dance to the left and then to the right waving our white handkerchief back and forth as well

Kabo, Kabo o
......... kabo o(the name of the visiting govt functionary is usually affixed in the space)

Eyin lo lorun oba yan

Lati se asaju wa

Oluwa to fin yin si po

Ko ni jeko ba je

Translating literarily lol

Welcome welcome

bla blal bla welcome

You're the one chosen by god to lead us

God that put you in that position

will not let it spoil

[Auspicious]

+

Shina Peters captured the school setting so well:

Bi bata re ba fe din 'Ko-Ko-Ka', Ka'we E!

(If you want ya shoe to sound "Ko-Ko-Ka", read Ya Book!)



You see? Who who doesn't like those kinda shoes??

And you can only be a Lawyer or Accountant or Engineer or Dokta..

Anything else is below par.

PS: Watch-out for Valteena @ time-stamp 0:33 as she dramatically emphasizes a point.

Auspicious.

[valteena]

Originally Posted by Auspicious

+

Shina Peters captured the school setting so well:

Bi bata re ba fe din 'Ko-Ko-Ka', Ka'we E!

(If you want ya shoe to sound "Ko-Ko-Ka", read Ya Book!)



You see? Who who doesn't like those kinda shoes??

And you can only be a Lawyer or Accountant or Engineer or Dokta..

Anything else is below par.

PS: Watch-out for Valteena @ time-stamp 0:33 as she dramatically emphasizes a point.

Auspicious.

Naah, Auspy that na Jakande school of today. My school and pupils clean, fine and smart pass dat well well lol. Real correct school and pupils fa.

[ISL]

Originally Posted by MrsChocT

I remember this song.....heard it when some boy's scouts were singing and I've never forgotten it

Ewa Jamseeeeeee, eee Jamseeeee ewa ( James' beans)
Ewa ti o lata, eeeeeeee Jamseeeee ewa (Beans wey no get pepper)
Ewa ti o lepo, eeeeee Jamseeeeeeee ewa (Beans wey no get oyeli)

I was a brownie.....was anyone a girl's guide? Or boy's scout?

lol! I remember that song...nice!!!!

I was a cub scout for a bit, i was too young to be a boy's scout (I think you had to be 10)

I remember my scout master dragging us all to TBS in the rain to march for IBB(?) on independence day (I'm almost certain it was the year naija turned 25).....we also went camping once or twice, complete with bonfire and everything....I earned some yeye stripe on my uniform for that