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#1
01-28-2001, 02:15 PM
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Ok everybody, sing along!!
The wheels on the bus go round and round, Round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round ... __________________________________ (your turn: please vote on the last line to settle a disagreement!) Thanks in advance!
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#2
01-28-2001, 02:23 PM
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All through the town!
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#5
01-28-2001, 03:46 PM
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Something different...
All day long!!!
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#7
01-28-2001, 04:11 PM
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All around the town.
Okay, now answer me this one. Is it here we go lubey loo, or here we go loopty loo? I was watching a comercial for kids songs and that one and another were sung different than I remember.
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#8
01-28-2001, 04:11 PM
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I've never heard all day long. I think the only other one I've heard is all over town.
I'm used to all through the town, myself. Is this going to be another argument similar to that of the name of the Spider (Itsy Bitsy vs. Eensy Weensy, which, by the way, both are acceptible)?
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#9
01-28-2001, 04:22 PM
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Thank you Mobo, that is the other song I was thinking of.
Always have heard Itsy Bitsy Spider and it just sounds wrong to hear it the other way. Not that it is wrong, but it just sounds odd.
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#11
01-28-2001, 05:14 PM
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Former preschool teacher here:
Brunetter: All through the town. Kricket: Here we go loopty-loo. mobo85: Itsy-bitsy spider.
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#12
01-28-2001, 05:24 PM
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I've always remembered it as "All around the town." Which I never really questioned, as I just thought "around" was a play on the number of times "round and round" is said.
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#13
01-28-2001, 06:10 PM
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01-28-2001, 06:14 PM
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The wheels on the bus go round and round...
All the live long day. I'm sorry but I think that's it. All through the town sounds nuts.
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01-28-2001, 11:15 PM
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What's nuts about "All through the town"? That's where the wheel were going round and round. "All the live long day" lack the sense of motion that I believe is central, indeed integral, to the entire "Wheels on the Bus" gestalt
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#16
01-28-2001, 11:19 PM
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I like the version that ends with "'Til the kids throw up!"
But then again, y'all can just ignore me.
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01-28-2001, 11:29 PM
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01-28-2001, 11:42 PM
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OK...but school buses to me are like prisons. And in prison, they make you work on a chaingang/railroad where you work "all the LIVE LONG day."
Makes you think of the prison bus from the Simpsons. "Prison Bus, Otto?" "Yeah...now get on the bus or I'll kill you!" "Otto!" "Sorry the bus and I have kind of a 'Shining' thing going on." (Hehe. Any excuse for the Simpsons.)
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01-29-2001, 12:25 AM
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I'm solidly in the minority, but my 4 1/2 year-old insists that it's "All day long"
 I told him that I thought it was "All the way through town" and he gave me a seriously patronising look, shook his head and said "Silly Dad". Kids these days, they got no respect 
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#21
01-29-2001, 01:08 AM
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EEE-III-EEE-III-OOOOOOOOOOOO
Shucks, I thought everyone knew that.
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#22
01-29-2001, 02:35 AM
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 Blasphemy, sez I! It's "eensy-weensy."(As far as the wheel-turning bus is concerned....I dunno.)
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#23
01-29-2001, 04:46 AM
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When I was a very small Tansu, we sang 'all day long'. What one does with the drunken sailor is 'earlie in the morning'
What do you sing for other verses of 'the wheels on the bus'? I remember 'the wipers on the bus go swish swish swish' and 'the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep.' I know there were more verses.
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#24
01-29-2001, 04:58 AM
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More verses? Heck yeah. The kids at my preschool once went on for full 5 minutes on that blasted song. They did the ones you mentioned, Tansu, and one or two others.
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#25
01-29-2001, 05:39 AM
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The lights on the bus go blink-blink-blink... The kids on the bus go 'let's get off'...* The parents on the bus go 'please be quiet'.... The babies on the bus go 'wha-wha-wha'.... That's all I can remember right now. I've heard a few diferent things for 'the kids on the bus' and one of the other directers for the daycare added verses about the grandparents and I seem to recall some other stuff, but can't remember for certain right now. What I do recall is that I *hated* this flippin' song because it went on and on and on and on....AGH!
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#26
01-29-2001, 06:09 AM
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All the live-long day!" ~Homer Simpson
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01-29-2001, 03:51 PM
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The Score So Far ...
All through the town - 7 votes
All day long - 3 votes All round the town - 2 votes Earlie in the morning - 2 votes All over town - 1 vote All the livelong day - 1 vote Till the kids throw up - 1 vote E-I-E-I-O - 1 vote Anyone else want to get in on this?
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#29
01-29-2001, 06:11 PM
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It's "all around town."
Trust me on this. My niece is three, and we sing that song until I want to rip my hair out and hunt down the fool that penned it. This song has more verses than the spanish birthday song "Las Maranitas" which, if sung in it's entirety, would last from a child's first birthday to their 21st birthday. The wheels on the bus song just goes on forever and my niece just loves to dance around and make everyone sing it for hours and hours. One would think a three-year-old would lose interest in something after about half an hour, but no. So I can tell you, the last line is "all around town". It says so on the CD jacket of my niece's children's song CD that her aunt (may she rot) got her for last Christmas. It says so on the tape jacket of a similar cassette Gramma got her at the same time. Blue's Clues says so, and so does Sesame Street. So let me tell you, it's "all around town". And that's that.
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#31
01-29-2001, 10:15 PM
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From the Playmates, wevets:
Beep beep
Beep beep His horn went "beep beep beep." While riding in my Cadillac, what to my surprise A little Nash Rambler was following me, about one third my size The guy must have wanted to pass me out as he kept on tooting his horn I'll show him that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn. The rest of the lyrics are at this site. Go about halfway down the page to "Beep Beep."
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#32
01-29-2001, 10:25 PM
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All Around [insert your town's name]
For example:
The wheels on the bus go round and round round and round, round and round The wheels on the bus go round and round all around Bangui.... well, that's how I learned it. I guess it doesn't work very well if you live in Albuquerque or Jacksonville
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#33
01-29-2001, 10:34 PM
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It's definately not "all around town." The notes go daaa-daaa-da-daaa (okay, I can't write it out very well...quarter note, eighth, eighth note, quarter note, rest, I think, with some kind of special beat pattern that I don't know the exact term of, but it makes it sound like "da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM instead of "dum dum dum dum dum")
Other verses: Other than the ones already mentioned, the only other one I remember is "The pennies on the bus go clink clink clink." Re. The Spider: I always knew it as "Itsy Bitsy," and I think that actually is the correct way. But many people seem to think it's "Eency Weency." I saw a TV commercial for some kind of record of childrens' songs (the logic behind that just baffles me; it's like the "Songs To Annoy Bus Drivers" tape Otto was playing on The Simpsons; "Why'd I even buy this tape!?") and in the commercial the lyrics are said as "Incy Wincy." I guess they couldn't figure out which one it was, so they made a compromise, but "Incy Wincy" sounds really stupid.
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#35
01-30-2001, 05:24 AM
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For me it's "All day long" and "Incy-Wincy" spider and
I could dig out the books and tapes to back me up, but since these are kids' songs and nursery rhymes used throughout the English speaking world, I guess there are many variants out there. Now trying to track down the lyrics for the Little Green Frog as I vaguely remembered it was a challenge ...
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#37
01-30-2001, 08:32 AM
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Itsy-Bitsy Spider gets my vote.
What the heck does Incy-Wincy mean? It's a little, itsy-bitsy spider. Itsy-bitsy, just like "Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka-dot bikini..." And it's Loobey-Loo, as in "Here we go loobey-loo, here we go loobey-lie". Not loopty-loo. As for "The Wheels On The Bus" song, it's "all around the town" or "all through the town." There can be tons of verses: The driver on the bus says, "Move on back..." The doors on the bus go open and shut... The horn on the bus goes "Beep, beep, beep..." The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish (or back and forth)... The windows on the bus go up and down... The babies on the bus cry "Boo-hoo-hoo..." The mommies on the bus say "Shh, shh, shh..."
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#41
02-01-2001, 02:20 AM
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Just for clarity sake I asked my girlfriend and roommate this question. We all came up with different answers. I don't think they are any correct lines it's just there are different versions people!
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#42
02-13-2001, 04:03 PM
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Lexicon wins
Final score is as follows:
Geographical Lyrics: all around town - 4 votes all through the town - 7 votes all over town - 1 vote all around (insert town's name) - 1 vote all the way to school -1 vote Chronological Lyrics: all day long - 4 votes all the livelong day - 1 vote early in the morning - 3 votes Lexicon, in addition to siding with one of the more popular lyrics, was so firm and definitive in his insistence that it was the right answer, even citing independent sources, that I simply have to concur and declare the lyrics to be, here and forevermore, to be as follows: The wheels on the bus go round and round, Round and round, round and round The wheels on the bus go round and round, All around the town. Congrats to all of you who are smart and crazy enough to know the right lyrics, and thanks all of you for fighting this one tiny bit of ignorance.
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#43
02-13-2001, 05:59 PM
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Re: Lexicon wins
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You should just give up and understand that all your nerds agree and eventually we will overpower your will and convert you to our side of the force.
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03-10-2011, 06:13 PM
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10 years later..
I just wanted to add that my sister (a bit of a social realist) would sing :
"The driver on the bus goes puff puff puff, puff puff puff, puff puff puff. The driver on the bus goes puff puff puff, because he's social class 5." To her 2 yr old daughter. I now have a 2 yr old of my own, but I'll be strong.
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