# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/61 "2009-04-30T12:26:45Z")
> [@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? No, we did it all the time out on the eastern end of Long Island, NY. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/62 "2009-04-30T14:31:53Z")
Just curious- did anybordy learn The Rooster Song at camp? _One day that rooster- woohoo!- came into our yard He knocked that cow Right off her guard…_ ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/63 "2009-04-30T18:54:24Z")
I know every single one of these songs. It is of course _greasy, grimy gopher guts little dirty birdie feet mutilated monkey meat French-fried eyeballs dipped in kerosene_ I went to camp every single year from the age of 7 through 15. I’d forgotten the rooster one; I think it has some sexual undertones, though. I [found some lyrics](http://artists.letssingit.com/irish-music-lyrics-the-rooster-btqsv8c). In the Dead Dog Rover song, it always used to crack me up that _one leg is missing, the other is gone_. Har! We used to sing “I Don’t Want to Stay at Marydale” (the name of the camp) and I was _stunned_ a few years later when I saw the cast on _M_A_S_H\* singing “I Don’t Want No More of Army Life,” or whatever the title is. I thought my camp _invented_ that song. Gullible kids. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/64 "2009-04-30T19:19:46Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Just curious- did anybordy learn The Rooster Song at camp? > > _One day that rooster- woohoo!- came into our yard > He knocked that cow > Right off her guard…_ Sort of. I was a 24-year-old volunteer counselor. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/65 "2009-04-30T23:22:50Z")
**Ellen Cherry** , your version is a bit different than mine. Really- elephants? The refrain we used went like this: _There was a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine], who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/ give super-duper bubblegum], There was a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine], who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/ give super-duper bubblegum]. My wife said Honey This isn’t funny To have a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine] Who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/give super-duper bubblegum]. One day that rooster- Whoohoo!- Came into our yard And knocked that [cow/hen/garden/gum machine] right off her guard. We’re having [omlets/milkshakes/eggplants/super-duper bubblegum] Just like we used to Ever since that rooster Came into our yard!_ I agree that it can be taken as a bit sexist (even at that age, I noticed that everything the rooster kicked around was referred to as “her”), but I’m not seeing any sexual undertones. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567/66 "2009-05-01T00:12:10Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > _There was a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine], who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/ give super-duper bubblegum], > There was a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine], who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/ give super-duper bubblegum]. > My wife said > Honey > This isn’t funny > To have a [cow/hen/fruit and vegetable garden/super-duper bubblegum machine] > Who wouldn’t [give milk/lay eggs/grow fruits and vegetables/give super-duper bubblegum]. > One day that rooster- > Whoohoo!- > Came into our yard > And knocked that [cow/hen/garden/gum machine] right off her guard. > We’re having [omlets/milkshakes/eggplants/super-duper bubblegum] > Just like we used to > Ever since that rooster > Came into our yard!_ The one we had went We had a [hen/cow/garden/gum tree] No [eggs/milk/veggies/gum] would it give. Ma said Honey We’re losing money Because that darn [hen/cow/fgarden/gum tree] No [eggs/milk/veggies/gum] would it give. Until that rooster- Came into our yard And knocked that [hen/cow/garden/gum tree] right off its guard. We’re having [eggs/egg nog/eggplants/chicklets] Just like we used to Ever since that rooster Came into our yard! We also had one more verse: We had a mother No children would she bear. We had a mother, No children would she bear. Pa said Honey We’re losing money Because your darn mother No children would she bear. Until that rooster- Came into our yard And knocked our mother right off her guard. She’s having eggheads Just like she used to Ever since that rooster Came into our yard! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-bunny-foo-foo/490567.md?page=3)