The Pooh Pooh Song

[gigi]

I used to think Rent had the only song containing “pooh-pooh”:

You want to produce films and write songs?
You need somewhere to do it!
It’s what we used to dream about
Think twice before you pooh-pooh it!

but then Saint Cad mentioned another in the city song thread:

"Paducah, Paducah
If you wanna you can rhyme it with bazooka
But you can’t pooh-pooh Paducah
That’s another name for Paradise. "

Also I noticed that The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss) is backward poohs.

It’s been a long week – what other nonsense / goofy expressions are in song?

[John_DiFool]

Is it sung by Winnie the Pooh?

[Exapno_Mapcase]

“Only for Americans,” sung by the Andrews Sisters, written by Irving Berlin.

Only for Americans
The shops with many real antiques
Antiques as old as seven weeks
They’re only for Americans
The bed on which a king made love
Which there are sev’ral dozen of
The French pooh pooh, we sell them to
Americans from the U.S.A.

Gilbert & Sullivan from Patience:

Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have long since passed away,
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was Culture’s palmiest day.
Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever’s fresh and new, and declare it’s crude and mean,
For Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress Josephine.

Somewhat more obscure is “The Shepherdess” by Jake Thackray

She was a simple, shabby little shepherdess :
people pooh-poohed her, they said she looked a mess.
Nobody else was ever so despised as she :
nobody else but her flea-bitten sheep and me.

I suppose the rapper Lil Pooh Pooh namechecking himself wouldn’t count.

[Thudlow_Boink]

In the same ballpark is Stevie Wonder’s “I Was Made To Love Her”

You know my papa disapproved it,
My mama boohooed it

[gigi]

There are also a couple of songs where Springsteen refers to the “wee wee hours”. Always made the 7-year-old in me giggle.

[drad_dog]

ooh poo pah doo

[Bryan_Ekers]

Don’t Pooh-pooh a Pooh-poohing

[gigi]

@drad_dog

ooh poo pah doo

I had to look up the spelling, but:

Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow!

[TreacherousCretin]

“…Which there are sev’ral dozen of The French pooh pooh…”

And when the French like something they wee wee it. Coincidence? I think not.

[pulykamell]

If you count “poo-poo,” there’s Outkast’s “Roses” which contains the line “I know you’d like to think your shit don’t stank. But lean a little bit closer, see that roses really smell like poo-poo-oo. Yeah, roses really smell like poo-poo-oo.”

[EmilyG]

Gilbert and Sullivan also used the expression in Princess Ida:

If you’d pooh-pooh this monarch’s plan,
Pooh-pooh it,
But when he says he’ll hang a man,
He’ll do it.

[Why_Child]

@gigi

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It’s been a long week – what other nonsense / goofy expressions are in song?

I ask you Who Put The Bop In The Bop Shoo Bop Shoo Bop?

[Why_Child]

We go together,Like rama lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong

[Thudlow_Boink]

If you want to look at song titles, there’s
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Ba Ba Ba Ba
Radio Ga Ga
and the Spoon album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, named after the former/working title of one of its songs.

[xizor]

@Thudlow_Boink

If you want to look at song titles, there’s
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Ba Ba Ba Ba
Radio Ga Ga
and the Spoon album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, named after the former/working title of one of its songs.

And don’t forget “Da Da Da” by Trio

[gigi]

And “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”