# Little bunny foo foo **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567 "2009-03-24T12:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/41 "2009-03-25T23:07:02Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > . > > How about “On Top of Spaghetti” (to the tune of Old Smokey) or “Found a Peanut”? [Ahem](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=511556). ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/42 "2009-03-26T03:46:39Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > The version I know is > > Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts > Mutilated monkey meat > _Itty bitty birdie feet > French fried eyeballs **rolling in a pan of grease** _ > And I forgot my spoon And the version I learned as a kid went: Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts Red and yellow monkey meat Little babies dusty feet Two bleedy eyeballs rollin down the street And I forgot my spoon ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/43 "2009-03-26T06:45:35Z")
> [@filling\_pages](#): > > And my version of the worm song was: > > Nobody likes me > Everybody hates me > Guess I’ll go eat worms. > Big fat squishy ones, > little bitty scrawny ones > but I forgot my spoon. > Chop off their heads > and squeeze out the tails > and throw the rest away. > Nobody knows > how I survive > on worms 3 times a day! Don’t remember much of Kindergarten, but I remember that song and was wondering how many people it scarred socially in the years to come. “EVERYONE HATES ME, EVERYONE HATES ME, I’M SO DISGUSTING I SHOULD’T BE ALLOWED TO EAT FOOD LIKE PEOPLE, I SHOULD EAT WORMS!” I’m sure there’s been at least _one_ person in therapy for that song. And I never understood the little bunny foo foo song… But it was BOP for me. on quick edit, I didn’t mention that both songs were rehearsed weekly with the music teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/44 "2009-03-26T13:40:28Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > The version I know is > > Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts > Mutilated monkey meat > _Itty bitty birdie feet > French fried eyeballs **rolling in a pan of grease** _ > And I forgot my spoon > > Funny how these things change from place to place and year by year. Our version: Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts Mangilated monkey meat Little dirty birdie feet French fried eyeballs swimming in a bowl of blood And me without my spoon! ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/45 "2009-03-26T19:37:26Z")
The version I know is: Great green globs of greasy grimy gophet guts mutliated monkey’s meat toasted little birdie’s feet French fried eyeballs swimming in a pool of blood, Me without my spoon! My next oldest sister tortured me one day by singing that song over and over. I actually felt nauseated by it! Here’s a song we used to sing as kids. It’s sung to the tune of “I’m looking over a four leaf clover” I’m looking over, my dead dog, Rover That I overlooked before! One leg is broken The other is gone One leg is lying on our front lawn There’s no use explaining the one remaining Is down on the basement floor! ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/46 "2009-03-26T20:17:15Z")
No, no, no. It’s: Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey meat Dirty dirty birdie feet French-fried eyeballs hopping up and down the street Mommy, I forgot my spoon And the Dead Dog Rover song: I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overran with the mower One leg is missing, the other is gone One leg is scattered all over the lawn There’s no need explaining the one remaining Is out by the neighbor’s door I’m looking over my dead dog Rover That I overran with the mower There was also this stirring poem, recited in an outrageously fake New York mobster accent: Thoity doity poiple boids Settin’ on a coib Boipin’ and a choipin’ and a-eatin’ doity woims. Along came Boit and a skoit named Goit And when they saw those Thoity doity poiple boids Settin’ on a coib Boipin’ and a choipin’ and a-eatin’ doity woims, Man, was they poitoibed! ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/47 "2009-03-26T20:27:28Z")
All you gopher guts eaters are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG: it is _ **Dirty turdy birdie feet** _ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/48 "2009-03-26T20:42:54Z")
My local library has a book published in 1978 entitled [One Potato, Two Potato: The Folklore of American Children](http://www.amazon.com/One-Potato-Two-Folklore-American/dp/0393090396/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238100035&sr=1-6) which is a sociological study of rhymes and songs sung by children. I’ve only skimmed through the book- I’ll have to actually read it someday and see what’s in there. One of my favorites that I do know is in the book is one I had never heard before, but I find amusing: (sung to “The Addams Family” by Vic Mizzy) The Addams Family started When Uncle Fester farted They all came out retarded\* The Addams Family! \*Alternatively “I think they’re all retarded” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/49 "2009-03-26T20:49:40Z")
Continuing from previous post as edit window has closed… My parents taught me [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(song)) as a child, and I thought it was interesting when I later discovered that the familiar _River Kwai_ theme also had a version about [Hitler’s testicles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball) sung during World War II. I find it interesting that rhymes like this are still around today- a few months ago I overheard two kids playing around and saying “Ha-ha-ha-ha, I make joke, I make pee-pee in your Coke,” which I thought was rather interesting, as it was a still gross but no longer politically incorrect rewrite of the old rhyme “Me Chinese, me play joke, me make pee-pee in your Coke.” ---
**Author:** ![Jelymag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jelymag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelymag)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/50 "2009-03-26T23:06:20Z")
Awwww… how I love camp songs… Some of the best times. Does anyone remember one about sipping cider and kissing or something? That was one that would get stuck in my head for days on end. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/51 "2009-03-27T02:03:23Z")
[Sipping Cider Through a Straw](http://kidsongs.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/sipping-cider/) ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/52 "2009-03-27T07:37:04Z")
**AAAARRRRGGGH!** I can’t believe it! You’re\* all \*singing the worms song wrong! It goes like this: _Everybody hates me, Nobody likes me I’m gonna go eat worms! Big long slimy ones, Little fat fuzzy ones, Golly how they wiggle and sqirm! You bite the heads off, You suck the juice out, You throw the skins away! Nobody knows how good you can live On worms three times a day!_ Sing it right, you guys! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/53 "2009-03-27T07:43:09Z")
I have never heard the “Hare today, goon tomorrow” punch line. for me the song was sung by my older siblings as a prelude to bopping me on my head. Kind of the way Lt Col Kilgore played Ride of the Valkyries. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/54 "2009-03-27T10:53:22Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > OMG! How have I lived my whole long life without ever hearing this song/story/joke/whatever? I’ve lived in the Southern US, but also lived three years in the UK. Is this a northern US thing? Nope, probably not a northern thing. The first time I ever heard the song was during a regional honor society meeting when I was a junior. One of the presenters decided to teach us the song for no apparent reason, and hadn’t expected to need to tell us the words or show us the gestures. Only about a third of the audience had ever heard it before. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/55 "2009-04-29T18:28:35Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > [Sipping Cider Through a Straw](http://kidsongs.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/sipping-cider/) I know this as “The Other Day”. One group sings the main line,(another echoes). Then, the verse is sung by everyone with no echo before going on to the next verse. I’ve shown the first verse with the pattern, the rest follow the same idea. The other day (echo) I saw a bear (echo) a great big bear (echo) oh way up there (echo) (all sing with no echo) The other day I saw a bear a great big bear oh way up there. He looked at me, I looked at him he sized up me I sized up him He says to me Why don’t you run I see you ain’t got any gun And then I ran away from there but right behind me was that bear And up ahead there was a tree a great big tree oh glory be The lowest branch was ten feet high it reached way up into the sky And so I jumped into the air but I missed that branch oh way up there Now don’t you fret and don’t you frown Cause I caught that branch on the way back down. That’s all there is There ain’t no more Unless I see That bear once more ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/56 "2009-04-29T18:35:31Z")
I learned it as Little Barney Foo Foo. But the rest was the same, except I cannot recall just what the Good Fairie says. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/57 "2009-04-29T21:04:17Z")
> [@FalconFinder](#): > > I know this as “The Other Day”. One group sings the main line,(another echoes). Then, the verse is sung by everyone with no echo before going on to the next verse. I’ve shown the first verse with the pattern, the rest follow the same idea. > > \ I’ve heard that one, sung the way you describe. I think I’ve heard “Sipping Cider” sung like that too. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/58 "2009-04-29T22:20:35Z")
It’s interesting that there are so many variations to these songs, and everyone thinks of their own as the “right” one. When my wife and I started singing “Ten in the Bed” to our daughter, neither of us knew the version that I’ve now seen in print. My mom included the couplet: They all rolled over when they heard him shout And the one on the outside fell out Which I’ve never seen or heard anywhere else. Last year, I went to Girl Scout camp with my two daughters, and we learned [Bog Down in the Valley](http://www.thebards.net/music/lyrics/Bog_Down_In_The_Valley.shtml). Since then, my six-year-old has spent a lot of frustrating time on Google, trying to find the exact version that we learned, and ending up in tears. In the version we learned, instead of egg-bird-feather-flea, it went egg-elephant-spot-hair-flea-end. I think the camp counselors may have changed it themselves. Barenaked Ladies have a version of “Bear in Tennis Shoes” with a verse added to the end; something like: And then I saw That bear once more Now he’s a rug On my living room floor ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/59 "2009-04-29T22:37:35Z")
> [@abbeytxs](#): > > We used to do that all the time as kids. I’ve never met anyone else outside of my home town who knew it though. > > Is it just a mid-western thing? Not unless the Jersey Shore is midwest 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/60 "2009-04-30T01:39:59Z")
I am certain most of you know [My Bonnie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQEAkg2-Jo8) … I got into a shitstorm of trouble because the only version of it I knew was [DaNang Lullaby](http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/cloudbuster/military.htm) Something about the whole My God how the mortars roll in and being in kindergarden during Vietnam sort of freaks out my very pacifistic teachers… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567.md?page=4)