# Question about a childhood song...opinions wanted... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205 "2004-06-02T04:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/21 "2004-06-03T02:19:32Z")
I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/22 "2004-06-03T02:31:13Z")
> [@akennett](#): > > Wait a minute here! You clap and take a letter from the end? We always clapped and took the letters off from the front. > > B-I-N-G-O > CLAP-I-N-G-O > > and so forth… > > very interesting! We always did it by taking a letter from the end, and THEN back again, by taking a letter from the front. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Turk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dan\_Turk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Turk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/23 "2004-06-03T02:32:07Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith. What’s he call the other leg? ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/24 "2004-06-03T07:45:24Z")
One vote for Bingo was the dog And one vote for (clap) I-N-G-O (clap) (clap) N-G-O etc ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/25 "2004-06-03T13:06:50Z")
When I went to camp, we had a song that went… Camp Ohiyeasa has a ghost and Bruno is his name-o B-R-U-N-O B-R-U-N-O B-R-U-N-O and Bruno was his name-o etc. The ghost was definately Bruno. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/26 "2004-06-03T20:06:39Z")
I’m kinda amazed that y’all even remember this crap. Which way you clapped and who was Bingo and then we went backwards etc. I thought it was pretty dumb even back then. Of course I could be overlooking the possibility that many of you are still kids. at heart anyway 😉 I’m more interested in whether or not the story about the guy who went a few years ago and got copyrights to the song and has since received several million dollars in royalty benefits was true or not. Probably not I would venture to guess. ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205/27 "2004-06-03T22:22:39Z")
I always knew the song as: A little black dog Sat on the back porch And Bingo was his name-o… However–my dad made up all kinds of songs and stuff when I was a kid and I’m still finding out how much of it was total malarkey. This could be another case of a dad-ism catching up with me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-childhood-song-opinions-wanted/248205.md?page=1)