# Who sang the very strange song "Little Bo Peep" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539 "2002-08-26T00:47:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/1 "2002-08-26T00:47:29Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![metivo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@metivo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metivo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/2 "2012-05-18T22:15:43Z")
I believe this was sung by Bobby Darin. It had “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” on the flip side. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/3 "2012-05-19T00:33:52Z")
Moved to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/4 "2012-05-20T01:48:16Z")
[This actually got answered almost two years after this thread was posted, so eight years ago now.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=167125) 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. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/5 "2012-05-20T02:34:35Z")
Was Youtube around back when this was first asked? Well, it has that song now: [Joe Dowell - Little Bo Peep - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhdkYqHGPY4) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/6 "2012-05-20T02:46:42Z")
The earliest references I could find on this board are from early 2006, so nope. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/7 "2012-05-20T03:36:57Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > …early 2006 Which blows my mind. It seems like YouTube has been around way longer than that. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/8 "2012-05-20T03:46:14Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#): > > Was Youtube around back when this was first asked? No; it was founded February 14, 2005. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-sang-the-very-strange-song-little-bo-peep/125539/9 "2012-05-20T03:59:37Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Who sang the very strange song “Little Bo Peep” 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.