# Stupid songs that dads sing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183 "2000-08-13T09:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/41 "2000-08-14T19:42:50Z")
Being a dad myself, I think that I have a great singing voice and all my songs are funny. When my son is old enough to get on here, he will probably tell you different. But one twist I do that makes him laugh all the time is changing the words of songs slightly to put his name in the song. As in: “Check it out now, the funk soul Brendan Right about now, the funk soul Brendan” or “If I go crazy, will you still call me Super Brendan…” ---
**Author:** ![Spider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/42 "2000-08-14T20:02:44Z")
My Dad had some great songs, I think he listened to Radio ads toomuch as a child. For brushing our teeth there was: Brusha Brusha Brusha With your new Ipana Brusha Brusha Brusha Goooood for your teeeeeeth. Waking up was: Up in the morning and out to school, The boys they know the golden rule… For my sister there was that song about the girl with “Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she will have music wherever she goes” along with one about a girl who “she still insists that she’s NEVER been kissed.” I think my favorite was the ditty that said: I awoke one morning with such a thrill… A little bird sat upon my window sill… I lured him in with crusts of bread… And then I crushed his little head. Thanks Dad. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/43 "2000-08-14T20:43:48Z")
Finally a support group! Dad still sings (that’s what he calls it)anything and everything. One childhood favorite: Ooogoo was a little worm a little worm was he he sat upon the railroad tracks the train was coming fast poor little Ooogoo wouldn’t turn around poor little ooo was GOO! He also has a habit of picking up odd phrases from songs or commercials and corrupting them to suit his ‘ear’ Example: Pizza Pizza - he literally runs around the house, poking his head into rooms; shouts PIZZA PIZZA, and then runs off. He was watching the news and they were doing a story on Mardi Gras (sp?) For weeks, he would indiscriminately blurt, Bedlem on Bubon Stweet (this is the phonetic spelling. it took us a few days to figure out what the hell he was saying. ‘Holding me holding me AHHHHHHHHHHH’- some Simply Red song ‘Guilty feet have got no rythum’ - WHAM (?) Opera- HIS version! While we lived with my parents, neither my sisters or I heard his ‘singing’ half the time. I think its called environmental deafness. One night we were sitting around with some friends when they burst out laughing, for apparenly no reason. Turns out, Dad had popped his head in the kitchen, yelled ‘Pizza Pizza’ and ran away. None of his three daughters even noticed. Now when I call home I can’t even believe the noise in the backround. I keep asking my mom what the hell he’s doing, and she says, ‘he’s singing’ Good Lord! Thank God for FHA home loans. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/44 "2000-08-14T20:53:05Z")
Almost forgot. Dad has FABULOUS little pet names for all his daughters. My younger sister is on any given occasion Worm Face(d) Thing, Ratso Rizzo, Babt Jan, EP, Hubert Bundage, I am either breadbasket or hamstew brwain, my older sister is little EP And he wonders why I never remarried. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/45 "2000-08-14T20:53:24Z")
My dad had a thing for cowboy songs. He used to sing Old Man River, Red River Valley, The Streets of Larado, Sweet Betsy from Pike, La Cookaracha (sp). And campfire songs–A Sippin’ Cider through a Straw, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Row Row Row Your Boat, Found a Peanut. But he had one song which I used to love (God knows why–I must have been strange even then), and I can only remember part of one line “_the sow took the measles and she died in the spring_.” Anybody know this one? I think Burl Ives may have recorded it. Guess once I’m home I should go surfin’ (now everybody’s learnin’ how…come on a safari with meeeee.). Sniff, sniff. This thread brought back some tender memories. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/46 "2000-08-14T21:20:37Z")
Here’s one that my grandfather sang to me and which I proudly pass on to my kids: He laid down by the sewer and by the sewer he died and that it why they call it sewer, sewer, sewer-cide! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/47 "2000-08-14T21:28:41Z")
Here’s an obscure one from my own dad, which he sang loudly and frequently: "Oh, we’re all going down to Santa Fe town to join the big fiesta! We’re all going down to Santa Fe town to join the big fiesta! Perka deedle di do 1-2-3, Perka deedle di do 1-2-3!" He said he saw it on some old cartoon when he was a kid. At some point, years ago, I believe I saw a snip of that cartoon; it was an old Terry Toons starring Farmer Brown (I believe), and some proto- Heckle and Jeckle characters. Does this ring a bell with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/48 "2000-08-14T21:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*Being a dad myself, I think that I have a great singing voice and all my songs are funny. When my son is old enough to get on here, he will probably tell you different. But one twist I do that makes him laugh all the time is changing the words of songs slightly to put his name in the song. As in: > “Check it out now, the funk soul Brendan > Right about now, the funk soul Brendan” > or > “If I go crazy, will you still call me Super Brendan…” > \*\* I did that too! My kids hated it! I thought it was funny. I would also put their name into stories that I read to them. It really made me smile when I read of all you people remembering your father singing goofy songs when you were a kid. I can only hope that my kids will smile when they hear a silly song and think about me. ---
**Author:** ![single\_files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@single\_files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/single_files)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/49 "2000-08-14T22:14:05Z")
My Dad can’t carry a tune at all, and actually lip synchs from the church hymnal. He did participate around the house sometimes, though, and I have a lot of really strange songs rattling around in my head that originated from somewhere in my childhood. Anybody remember these? Black socks that never get dirty the longer you wear them the stronger they get Sometimes I think of the laundry but something inside me says ‘Don’t send them yet’ Or Said the thousand legged worm as he gave a little squirm Has anyone seen a leg of mine If it can’t be found then I’ll have to go around on the other nine hundred ninety nine Or Granny’s in the cellar Lordy don’t you smell her Cooking bisquits on that durned old dirty stove In her eye there is a matter that keeps dripping in the batter And she whistles while the (snot sucking sound goes here) runs down her nose And I used to know all the words to ‘My dingaling’ but we tried to put that one together at work one day and I have forgotten most of it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/50 "2000-08-14T23:09:46Z")
To the tune of “My Bonnie”: Last night as I lay on my pillow Last night as I lay on my bed I stuck my feet out the window Next morning the neighbors were dead. And “Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder”, a favorite of my mother, and now my daughter’s (a whole new generation of corny song singers). And the one about 12 posts up, about “the camels are coming”? I think he was really singing “the Campbells are coming”…some kinda scottish tune, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/51 "2000-08-14T23:55:33Z")
John Larrigan: Yeah, that’s it. Thanks. Thanks SO much. NOT! Uke: The version I like is this: _When an eel lunges out and he bites off your snout that’s a moray…_ Got that from a B.C comic strip (mumblemumble) years ago. Don’t know why it stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/52 "2000-08-15T00:07:32Z")
I like to make my daughters mad by purposely mutilating any song they like. Of course, I also used to sing: _Leprosy All my skin is falling off of me I’m not half the man I used to be Oh now that I’ve got leprosy_ Sung to the tune of Yesterday hats off to John Valby for that… My wife won’t let me sing the rest of it around them… ---
**Author:** ![Kaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/53 "2000-08-20T02:35:11Z")
My dad was never really that creative. My mom was though. at night she used to tell me and my brother stories about “Herman and Norman” whose lives were incrediabally similer to ours, and they seemed to meet the same people that we did, except that they’d be named Gertridue or Malachi or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183/54 "2000-08-20T21:39:01Z")
I have a very vivid memory as a kid. My dad, who enjoyed playing around with his guitar, was in the living room picking. Mom was taking dinner out of the oven. She dropped the meal by accident. I ran to tell dad. Without breaking stride he composed, on the fly, a new song. “Moma dropped the Meatloaf on the Floor” Its still a classic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-songs-that-dads-sing/29183.md?page=2)