# Song Survey: The Wheels on the Bus
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 28, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156 "2001-01-28T20:15:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/1 "2001-01-28T20:15:25Z")
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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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/2 "2001-01-28T20:23:49Z")
All through the town!
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/3 "2001-01-28T20:27:50Z")
I second Euty:
_All through the town._
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### Author:  [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/4 "2001-01-28T20:43:26Z")
All through the town, of course.
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### Author:  [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/5 "2001-01-28T21:46:50Z")
All day long!!!
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### Author:  [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/6 "2001-01-28T21:53:16Z")
Another vote for: “All through the town”
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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/7 "2001-01-28T22:11:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/8 "2001-01-28T22:11:37Z")
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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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/9 "2001-01-28T22:22:59Z")
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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### Author:  [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/10 "2001-01-28T23:03:39Z")
it is
early in the morning …
(errrlie)
confirmed independantly by an east coast math nerd … struff
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### Author:  [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/11 "2001-01-28T23:14:34Z")
Former preschool teacher here:
**Brunetter** : All through the town.
**Kricket** : Here we go loopty-loo.
**mobo85** : Itsy-bitsy spider.
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### Author:  [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2001, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/12 "2001-01-28T23:24:16Z")
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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### Author:  [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/13 "2001-01-29T00:10:29Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Lazarus7 \*
> \*\*early in the morning … \*\*
At the preschool which I attended and later worked at, we sang this as the last line, too.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/14 "2001-01-29T00:14:42Z")
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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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/15 "2001-01-29T05:15:04Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Zoggie \*
> \*\*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. \*\*
“All the live long day”! Certainly not.
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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### Author:  [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/16 "2001-01-29T05:19:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/17 "2001-01-29T05:29:37Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Zoggie \*
> \*\*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. \*\*
I think you are confused with “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”!
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/18 "2001-01-29T05:42:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@Elkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elkman)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/19 "2001-01-29T05:51:54Z")
On a recent field trip I assisted with for my daughter’s class (Elkkid?) we sang “All through the town”.
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### Author:  [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-survey-the-wheels-on-the-bus/52156/20 "2001-01-29T06:25:59Z")
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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