Regionality of Kids' Songs

[Listener]

Last night my wife and I were talking about something, I forget what, and she said, "well, everyone's doing it."

That brought to mind the following rather-disgusting kids' song from my younger days:

Everybody's doing it (doing it)
Picking their nose and chewing it (chewing it)
They think it's candy (candy)
But it's not (it's snot!)

She had NEVER heard that before.  She'd also never heard "up your butt and around the corner" before I said it one day in a fit of pique.

So what kids' songs did you sing that your non-regional friends never heard of?

[BigDun]

Do your ears hang low?
Do they waggle to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder?
Like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

My wife had never heard of it. I grew up singing it in church camp.

[Jessie]

Magalena Hagalena Ooka Taka Waka Taka Oka Moka Poka was her name.

[cnamon]

Magalena Hagalena Ooka Taka Waka Taka Oka Moka Poka was her name.

What?  I have never heard that one.

Shame, shame, shame
I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more
There's a big fat policeman at the door, door, door
If he catch you by the collar, boy you betta holla
I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more.

[Gamplayerx]

Magalena Hagalena Ooka Taka Waka Taka Oka Moka Poka was her name.

I've never heard this.  Nor Listener's snot song.  Nor Cn's Mexico song. 

Grumpus never went to camp, so he frequently has no idea what I'm talking about.

[Listener]

Do your ears hang low?
Do they waggle to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder?
Like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

My wife had never heard of it. I grew up singing it in church camp.

We learned this one in music class in 2nd grade.

[Jessie]

Magalena Hagalena Ooka Taka Waka Taka Oka Moka Poka was her name.

What?  I have never heard that one.

Shame, shame, shame
I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more
There's a big fat policeman at the door, door, door
If he catch you by the collar, boy you betta holla
I don't wanna go to Mexico no more, more, more.

I know that tune (that's not the right word) but with diffeernt lyrics.  I can't remember what they are right now.  Ask me again when I've had some sleep.

http://www.kididdles.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/19.html

[eo000]

Do your ears hang low?
Do they waggle to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder?
Like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

My wife had never heard of it. I grew up singing it in church camp.

We learned this one in music class in 2nd grade.

we learned it with tits instead of ears.

[Listener]

Do your ears hang low?
Do they waggle to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them o'er your shoulder?
Like a Continental Soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

My wife had never heard of it. I grew up singing it in church camp.

We learned this one in music class in 2nd grade.

we learned it with tits instead of ears.

There's also "Do your balls hang low" which some punk band did.

[BigDun]

Grumpus never went to camp, so he frequently has no idea what I'm talking about.

That is sad. His parrents must have been mean to him when he was a child.

[cnamon]

I never went to camp as a kid.  Too many bugs.

[Gamplayerx]

Grumpus never went to camp, so he frequently has no idea what I'm talking about.

That is sad. His parrents must have been mean to him when he was a child.

They had a beach house.  He spent all his summers at the shore. Not learning fun songs or how to make keychains out of gymp or string games or hula hooping.

[DownSouth]

I never went to camp.  Never wanted to.  I liked playing with my friends all summer.

[Gamplayerx]

I never went to camp.  Never wanted to.  I liked playing with my friends all summer.

My friends all went to camp.  Except Melissa.  Her mom didn't work.

[DownSouth]

I never went to camp.  Never wanted to.  I liked playing with my friends all summer.

My friends all went to camp.  Except Melissa.  Her mom didn't work.

None of mine did.  I don't think we had a mom that worked in the whole neighborhood when I lived in the great white north.

[Bennyhana]

My mom worked nights, so she was around AND we didn't have to go to camp.  I'm glad I didn't, because I love the dark, but I HATE NATURE.

[sapphirehart]

I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
That I ran over with the mower,
One leg is missing and one leg is gone
One leg is splattered all over lawn,
There's no explaining the one remaining
It's spinning on the carport floor.....
I'm looking over
My dead dog Rover
That I over looked before!

[eo000]

I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
That I ran over with the mower,
One leg is missing and one leg is gone
One leg is splattered all over lawn,
There's no explaining the one remaining
It's spinning on the carport floor.....
I'm looking over
My dead dog Rover
That I over looked before!

hahaha, poor dog.

[sapphirehart]

Don't ever laugh when a hearse goes by,
Cuz you may be the next to die?
They wrap you up in a big white sheet,
And then they bury you six feet deep

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.

[Gamplayerx]

Found a peanut, found a peanut,
found a peanut, just now.
Just now, I found a peanut,
found a peanut, just now.

Cracked it open, cracked it open,
cracked it open, just now.
Just now, I cracked it open,
cracked it open, just now.

It was rotten, it was rotten,
it was rotten, just now.
Just now, it was rotten,
it was rotten, just now.

Ate it anyway, ate it anyway,
ate it anyway, just now.

Er.  I'll stop now.  It's a never ending song.

[Bennyhana]

Found a peanut, found a peanut,
found a peanut, just now.
Just now, I found a peanut,
found a peanut, just now.

Cracked it open, cracked it open,
cracked it open, just now.
Just now, I cracked it open,
cracked it open, just now.

It was rotten, it was rotten,
it was rotten, just now.
Just now, it was rotten,
it was rotten, just now.

Ate it anyway, ate it anyway,
ate it anyway, just now.

Er.  I'll stop now.  It's a never ending song.

This is one I've actually heard.  I think you can't exist into adulthood and not get at least some camp songs at least secondhand.

[Listener]

One I always HATED was "This is the song that never ends".  When I was a camp counselor the 7&8 year old girls would NOT stop singing it.  Then my 5&6 year old campers would start singing it.  And you know what THEY are like.

[Gamplayerx]

We never sang that one, but we did sing There's a Hole in the Bucket, Dear Liza and The Other Day, I Saw a Bear.  Other never ending songs. 

[sapphirehart]

One I always HATED was "This is the song that never ends".  When I was a camp counselor the 7&8 year old girls would NOT stop singing it.  Then my 5&6 year old campers would start singing it.  And you know what THEY are like.

hey, don't go dissing Lambchop's favorite song......I loved it when my boys were little and they starting singing that song.  It was great!

Right now Steven has been walking around the house singing:

I don't wanna be a chicken,
I don't wanna be a duck
I just wanna shake my butt
quack quack quack

http://www.oldworld.ws/chickendance.mid

[Dry then Catch]

i haven't heard of any of these songs nor any of these variants.

however, I can sing all 50 states alphabetically to the "your ears hang low" tune. 

[pumpkineye]

i haven't heard of any of these songs nor any of these variants.

however, I can sing all 50 states alphabetically to the "your ears hang low" tune. 

hahah!  i can too!  but i don't know if thats the tune... i had to learn that in 3rd grade music class, and can never dump it out my brain

[Jessie]

I never went to camp.  It wasn't an option.  I don't know anyone who did.  Do you mean day camp or sleep away camp?

My mom didn't start work til I was in middle school.  We spent our summers building tree houses and catching buckets of snakes and having picnics in the backyard or at the playground and walking to the library and spending weeks at my grandparents' and camping at the lake and stuff.

[Listener]

I used to be vaguely afraid of sleepaway camp.  I went to four day camps in a nine-year period, then became a counselor for three years.

[Gamplayerx]

i haven't heard of any of these songs nor any of these variants.

however, I can sing all 50 states alphabetically to the "your ears hang low" tune. 

hahah!  i can too!  but i don't know if thats the tune... i had to learn that in 3rd grade music class, and can never dump it out my brain

I can, too.  But it's not to the ears hang low - it's it's own song. 

Fifty nifty United States, from 13 original colonies
Fifty nifty stars on the flag, that billows so beautifully in the breeze
Each individual state contributes a quality that is great
Each individual state deserves a bow, let's salute them now!

[Gamplayerx]

Do you mean day camp or sleep away camp?

I went to both.  Most summers, I'd spend a week at my grandma's.  Then a week at my aunt's.  Then 2 weeks at a general day camp.  Then 1-2 weeks at a specialized day camp (sports or theater or something).  And then 2-4 weeks at sleep away camp.  Then the rest of the summer at the beach with the entire family. 

[meredith]

Jessie, your cleavage is sparkling.


There were a lot of songs that I didn't know but all the other kids did.  Same with a lot of kids' stories.  Then again, I spent entire years of elementary school ignoring the class and reading volumes of World Book.

[ReBurn]

My kids just sing the blues...

[Dry then Catch]

I used to be vaguely afraid of sleepaway camp.  I went to four day camps in a nine-year period, then became a counselor for three years.

did you see Wet Hot American Summer the satire of 80s mainly Jewish sleepaway camps?

I went to Day Camp, which actually is more of a punishment now that I think about it.

[Gamplayerx]

I saw that but it didn't remind me of the Jewish sleepaway camps I attended in the 80s.  I must've been at the wrong ones.

[Dry then Catch]

I saw that but it didn't remind me of the Jewish sleepaway camps I attended in the 80s.  I must've been at the wrong ones.

really?  you didn't go into town and shoot up heroin?  let a kid drown for some extra make out time?  save the talent show from a meteor?  Jeanine Garofalo and Michael Ian Black weren't there?

[Gamplayerx]

Oh, well sure.  We did all of that. 

[Alice]

My stomach is in a commotion
I have to lean over the rail
I don't want to dirty the ocean
Won't somebody bring me a pail?

Come up,
Come up,
Come up sweet dinner
Come up,
Come up!

Come up,
Come up,
Come up sweet dinner
Come up!

(in a deep voice)
I'm coming,
I'm coming,
For I cannot stay below...
I hear the gentle voices saying...

(spoken reallllllllly fast)
Hasten Jason bring the basin
Urp slop, bring the mop.

[Gamplayerx]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

[Alice]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

I am a C
I am a C H
I am a C H R I S T I A N
And I have C H R I S T in my H E A R T
And I will L I V E E T E R N A L L Y


...repeat over and over, faster each time.  Yay bible camp!  I've got a brazillion bible camp songs.

[Gamplayerx]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

I am a C
I am a C H
I am a C H R I S T I A N
And I have C H R I S T in my H E A R T
And I will L I V E E T E R N A L L Y


...repeat over and over, faster each time.  Yay bible camp!  I've got a brazillion bible camp songs.

I only know the Jesus Loves Me song.  Probably from some horror movie.  We didn't sing a lot of christian songs at jew camp.

[Alice]

The cutest worm
(the cutest worm)
I ever saw
(I ever saw)
Was stuck inside
(was stuck inside)
My soda straw
(my soda straw)
The cutest worm I ever saw, was stuck inside my soda straw.
(my soda straw)

He said to me...
(he said to me)
"Don't take a sip
(don't take a sip)
For if you do
(for if you do)
I'll surely slip!"
(I'll surely slip)
He said to me "don't take a sip, for if you do I'll surely slip"
(I'll surely slip)

I took a sip
(I took a sip)
And he went down
(and he went down)
Into my pipes
(into my pipes)
He must've drowned.
(He must've drowned)
I took a sip and he went down, into my pipes he must've drowned.
(He must've drowned)

He was my pal
(he was my pal)
He was my friend
(he was my friend)
But now he's gone
(but now he's gone)
And that's the end!
(and that's the end)
He was my pal he was my friend, but now he's gone and that's the end.
(AND THAT'S THE END)

[Gamplayerx]

I bet that's to the same tune as The Other Day I Saw A Bear song.

[Listener]

I only know the Jesus Loves Me song.  Probably from some horror movie.  We didn't sing a lot of christian songs at jew camp.

"Jesus loves me / he loves me a bunch / 'cause he always puts Skippy / in my lunch" ?

[Listener]

The cutest worm
(the cutest worm)
I ever saw
(I ever saw)
Was stuck inside
(was stuck inside)
My soda straw
(my soda straw)
The cutest worm I ever saw, was stuck inside my soda straw.
(my soda straw)

We had "the littlest dog", but otherwise the song was the same.

[Jessie]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

I am a C
I am a C H
I am a C H R I S T I A N
And I have C H R I S T in my H E A R T
And I will L I V E E T E R N A L L Y


...repeat over and over, faster each time.  Yay bible camp!  I've got a brazillion bible camp songs.

Haven't heard that in forever.

I still like to sing Father Abraham.

[Alice]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

I am a C
I am a C H
I am a C H R I S T I A N
And I have C H R I S T in my H E A R T
And I will L I V E E T E R N A L L Y


...repeat over and over, faster each time.  Yay bible camp!  I've got a brazillion bible camp songs.

Haven't heard that in forever.

I still like to sing Father Abraham.

Father Abraham!  Had many sons!  Many sons haaaaaad FAAAATHER ABRAHAM!  I am one of them and so are you!  So let's just praise the lord!  RIGHT ARM!

God that song would get so LOUD.

[Jessie]

That's pretty, Alice.  I don't believe I know any vomit songs.

I am a C
I am a C H
I am a C H R I S T I A N
And I have C H R I S T in my H E A R T
And I will L I V E E T E R N A L L Y


...repeat over and over, faster each time.  Yay bible camp!  I've got a brazillion bible camp songs.

Haven't heard that in forever.

I still like to sing Father Abraham.

Father Abraham!  Had many sons!  Many sons haaaaaad FAAAATHER ABRAHAM!  I am one of them and so are you!  So let's just praise the lord!  RIGHT ARM!

God that song would get so LOUD.

It was so fun, though!

[Gamplayerx]

I just noticed the camp ads.  I'll be floored if my old camp shows up.

[Alice]

Miss Suzie had a tug boat,
Her tug boat had a bell.
Miss Suzie went to heaven,
Her tug boat went to
HELLO operator,
Please give me number nine.
And if you disconnect me,
I'll kick your fat
Behind the 'frigerator
There was a piece of glass.
Miss Suzie sat upon it
And broke her little
Ask me no more questions
Please tell me no more lies.
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their
Flys are in the city
Bees are in the park
Miss Suzie and her boyfriend
Are sitting in the
Dark is like a movie
A movie's like a show
A show is like a TV show
And that is all I
Know I know my brother,
I know I know my pa,
I know I know my sister
In the polka dotted
Polka dotted
Polka dotted bra!

[Gamplayerx]

Your Suzie has some extra lines.  Mine ends with sitting in the d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k, d-a-r-k DARK!