Who sang the very strange song "Little Bo Peep"

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Okay, heres a strange one.
I remember a weird song when I was a kid (mid-late 60’s) called “Little Bo Peep”. It was not a childrens song.

I don’t recall the lyrics exactly, but some of them went:

“Little Bo Peep was a struten down the street, and when she walked by, Little Jackie Horner, standing in the corner, casually winked his eye.
She’s a pretty girl, but Jackie knew, she liked to cheat with Little Boy Blue, all the boys groove, at the sound, 'cause Little Bo Peep is a coming to town”

Then there was a chorus:

“She was a bad girl, a very bad girl.
A whutsi tootsie too, a whoopti doopty doo.
A very, very bad girl, yeah yeah, a very very bad girl”

(I told you it was a weird song:D)

Does anybody have any idea who did this song, and what the entire lyrics are?

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I believe this was sung by Bobby Darin. It had “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” on the flip side.

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Moved to Cafe Society.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

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This actually got answered almost two years after this thread was posted, so eight years ago now. The eBay listing is long gone, [del]so hopefully pkbites will bop along and give us the song title and artist, and maybe it won’t take a few years this time. ;)[/del]

The song is “Little Bo Peep” by Joe Dowell.

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Was Youtube around back when this was first asked?

Well, it has that song now: Joe Dowell - Little Bo Peep - YouTube

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The earliest references I could find on this board are from early 2006, so nope.

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Which blows my mind. It seems like YouTube has been around way longer than that.

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No; it was founded February 14, 2005.

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I’m honestly confused. What was “very strange” about it? A crappy, throwaway B side from '61, and very much in the style of the day. They did go to a lot of trouble for it, considering “Wooden Heart” was obviously the hit.