# What are the rest of the words to Little Bunny Foo Foo?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 19, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012 "2003-11-19T01:03:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/1 "2003-11-19T01:03:24Z")
I was watching Yes, Dear (shadddup!) and the brother-in-law sings the song to Chuck Norris’ daughter. But he only sang the part I remember. I asked my daughter the rest but the best she could tell me was “The fairy turns him into a frog.” Well, that’s not a song. What comes after:
_Little Bunny Foo Foo
Hopping throught the forest
Gathering up all the field mice
and bopping them on the head._
And, while your at it, could you please tell me if there are other verses to this songy-type rhyme:
\*It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more
It aint gonna rain no more.
So how in the heck
I’ma wash my neck
If it ain’t gonna rain no more?
A boy was sitting on the railroad tracks
His feet where full of blisters
Tore his pants on a rusty nail
And now he wears his sisters\*
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@Zoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoso)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/2 "2003-11-19T01:09:01Z")
Little bunny Foo Foo, there you go: [http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/l007.html](http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/l007.html).
I have no idea about the other two.
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### Author:  [@Zoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoso)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/3 "2003-11-19T01:10:38Z")
Wait, that did not work. Damn periods. Try this:
[http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/l007.html](http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/l007.html)
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/4 "2003-11-19T01:11:56Z")
So close! I’m getting a page not found error.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/5 "2003-11-19T01:13:09Z")
Well, let’s try that second one!
Oh and the second song is just one song.
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### Author:  [@Zoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoso)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/6 "2003-11-19T01:14:19Z")
Biggirl: “Oh and the second song is just one song.”
Ah, my bad. I’ve not heard it.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/7 "2003-11-19T01:15:10Z")
If you ever pick a copy of _Runaway Ralph_ by Beverly Cleary, a sequel to her _The Mouse and the Motorcycle_, you’ll find a bunch of these songs being sung by the “middle-sized children” (i.e. ten years old or so) at a summer camp, including “Little _Rabbit_ Fru-fru” and “Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts”.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/8 "2003-11-19T01:18:10Z")
OK, I heard Little _Rabbit_ Foo-Foo when I was a kid. And in that version the Fairy warns him about boppin’ the field mice on the head and finally turns him into a Goon, and the moral is “Hare today, goon tomorrow.”
I think that was just my friend Betty’s idiotic version.
Now. “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’” was a 1920s novelty song: I have a 1924 recording of The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones and Ernie Hare) singing it, and some of the verses go,
When Noah built the arc
He said it was his duty
He saved the beasts and birds and bugs
But why’d he save the cootie?
It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more (etc.)
When boating, never quarrel
Or you’ll find without a doubt,
A boat is not the proper place
To have a falling-out!
It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more (etc.)
The chicken is a wonderful bird
The hungry hobo said,
We eat them both before they’re born
And after they are dead!
It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more
It aint gonna rain no more.
So how in the hell
Can the old folks tell
It ain’t gonna rain no more?
Now, anyone need any help with “I Wish I was in Peoria” or “Horses, Horses, Horses?”
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/9 "2003-11-19T01:22:08Z")
[This link](http://wezie.hispeed.com/campfiresongs.htm) has the lyrics to it ain’t gonna rain no more. Scroll down half way or so. [Here’s another version](http://barrygoldberg.net/sillysongs.htm)
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/10 "2003-11-19T01:23:38Z")
From what I know, the fairy turns BFF into a goon.
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Hopping throught the forest
_Scooping_ up all the field mice
and bopping them on the head.
The good fairy came down and said…
"Little Bunny Foo Foo,
I don’t want to see you,
Scooping up the field mice
and bopping them on the head.
I’ll give you just two more chances. Then I’m going to change you into a goon."
Repeat using “one more chance etc”
Repeat saying “No more chances. I’m going to change you into a goon”
Then the motto, which you spring on people afterwards.
“Hare today, Goon tomorrow.”
At least…that’s how I’ve always heard the song go.
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/11 "2003-11-19T02:13:35Z")
Heh. When I was a kid, I heard the song so many times that I thought “Hare today, goon tomorrow” was the _real_ expression, and my grandmother was being tremendously witty when she said “Here today, gone tomorrow.”
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### Author:  [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/12 "2003-11-19T04:37:53Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \*
> \*\*If you ever pick a copy of _Runaway Ralph_ by Beverly Cleary, a sequel to her _The Mouse and the Motorcycle_, you’ll find a bunch of these songs being sung by the “middle-sized children” (i.e. ten years old or so) at a summer camp, including “Little _Rabbit_ Fru-fru” and “Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts”. \*\*
[hijack]
And her version of “Great Green Gobs” includes the line “simulated monkey meat.” _Simulated?_ :rolleyes:
[end hijack]
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/13 "2003-11-19T07:39:55Z")
I never heard the motto before -
but we always ended it
_Big Goonie Foo-foo stomping through the forest
Stepping on the field mice and smashing in their heads._
he was kind of unrepentant.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/14 "2003-11-19T09:06:42Z")
Holy crap! I was wondering this exact same question just the other day!
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### Author:  [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/15 "2003-11-19T13:03:44Z")
I always prefered “scoopin’ up the field mice, and bitting of thier heads,” complete with an imitation of chomping off a little critter’s head, then spitting it out, personally.
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### Author:  [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/16 "2003-11-19T13:23:30Z")
They are not field mice dammit!
They are chipmonks!
“Scooping up the CHIPMONKS and bopping them on the head.”
Philistines!
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### Author:  [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/17 "2003-11-19T13:36:31Z")
For the record, Wendell Hall (“The Red-Headed Music Maker”) is the man responsible for the large hit that “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More” became in the 1920’s.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/18 "2003-11-19T13:55:32Z")
. . . and who can forget Mrs. Parker, quoting “Taine, of ‘Taine Gonna Rain No Mo’”"
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### Author:  [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/19 "2003-11-19T16:20:00Z")
I played “Little ROBIN Foo Foo” for some pageant in nursery school and the only line I remember is from the Fairy:
“Little Robin Foo Foo/ I don’t like your attitude/ Picking up the field mice/ and bopping 'em on the head.”
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-rest-of-the-words-to-little-bunny-foo-foo/214012/20 "2003-11-19T20:29:17Z")
Of course it’s little **bunny** foo foo, and he’s **scooping** up the field mice and **bopping them on the head** , because those work best when using hand gestures to amuse real little kids.
They especially giggle if you accompany **scoop** with a scooping/tickling of their bellies.
I learned that one from my old pal Michael Jackson…
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