Silly songs you learned as a kid

[mykpart]

Here's one of mine, sung to the tune of "Glow Worm"

Down by the river, dimmer dimmer
There sat my boyfriend dimmer dimmer
Teeth knocked out and hair peroxided
Tell by the moonlight he's cross-eyed-ed
Ruffles on his underwear flappin in the breezes
Keepin to the rhythm of the knockin of his kneeses
One peg leg and the other lame,
But I love him just the same!

[WheresWaldo]

1. munchichi munchichi

munchichi munchichi, i see somebody
munchichi munchichi, i play atari
munchichi munchichi, oops i'm sorry (preceded by a light slap)

[Momof1]

2. A cat song in 4th grade

I still remember it.


Old Don Gato was a cat
On a high red roof Don Gato sat.
He was there to read a letter.
Meow, Meow, Meow,
Where the reading light was better
Meow, Meow, Meow,
Twas a love note for Don Gato.

Anyone else know this song?

[kdmorris]

6. Yep, stuck firmly in my head.

I had started to think I was crazy, since everyone else I met seemed to think I made it up. Mine started out with Senor Don Gato, though.

[Gadave]

9. Thats cause Gato

Means Cat en espanol.

I took French, so thats all the Spanish I know.

[Gadave]

8. Never heard of it

"I adore you," wrote the lady cat,
who was fluffy white, and nice and fat.
There was not a sweeter kitty,
meow, meow, meow
in the country or the city
meow, meow, meow
and she said she'd wed Don Gato!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

3. How about "London Bridges Falling down"?

If someone came up with a kids song like that these days, they'd be dragged off by homeland security for inciting terrorism.

And what's with the "rock a bye baby" song? I think most kids would want to change the ending. lol

[Awsi Dooger]

4. Crooked Creek, courtesy of my grandfather

He taught me this when I was about 6, playing golf in his backyard:

"Oh Crooked Creek's deep and Crooked Creek's muddy, but I can swim Crooked Creek as well as anybody! So tie yi, yippee yippee, yippee yippee yaa!"

[izzie]

5. We used to sing as a group every night at camp

Went to all summer camps for years starting in 1939 and what we sang is a lot of college songs, and from a book called America.I guess it was the lack of having anything you could drag around and play music on as it was done all over. We would sing walking home from school also. Did we sing good? No, we just did it.

[seaglass]

7. oooey goooey was a worm?

oooey gooey was a worm
a mighty worm was he
he crawled upon the railroad tracks
the train he did not see
oooooeeeyyy gooooeeeeyyy

I taught it to my kids too:-)

[trof]

10. Skinnamarink

Skinnamarinky dinky dink, Skinnamarinky doo,
I love you;
Skinnamarinky, dinky dink, Skinnamarinky doo,
I love you.
I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.
I love you in the evening underneath the moon.
Skinnamarinky dinky dink, Skiinnamarinky doo,
I love you.

[DiverDave]

11. This one

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
marinated monkey feet,
prehistoric birdy feet.

Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,
marinated monkey feet,
prehistoric birdy feet, following me to school.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Or the southern Wisconsin variant:

Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Concentrated birdy feet

Big giant jars of all-purpose porpoise puss
And here I am without a spoon.

[bmbmd]

12. My first protest song

Was "Little boxes on the hillside-little boxes made of ticky
tavvy-and they're all made out of ticky-tavvy and they all look just the same".

[dolo amber]

13. When my family moved to KY

from San Diego when I was 12-13...the little boys in the neighborhood used to sing this song;

(I remember nothing but these words, I'm sure there are more)

Tie my pecker to a tree, to a tree
Tie my pecker to a tree...

I have no idea what the point of this song was (other than perhaps masochism? :shrug:) but TO THIS DAY I find myself singing it from time to time...

:wtf:

Anybody...? :shrug:

[proud patriot]

15. I learned this one in Kindergarten

I had a Marshmellow that was green
that was green that was green
it grew and grew til it stuck
to my nose and my toes

:D

[benburch]

16. Dunderbeck

Dunderbeck


Oh mr. Dunderbeck, how could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen,
They've all been ground to sausages in dunderbeck's machine.

There was a man from my home town
His name was dunderbeck,
He sold a lot of sausages
And sourkraut by heck.
He made the greatest sausages,
That ever had been seen,
Until one day he invented a sausage making machine.

Oh mr. Dunderbeck, how could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen,
They've all been ground to sausages in dunderbeck's machine.

One day a little cub scout came walking in the store,
He bought a pound of sausages and laid them on the floor.
Then he began to whistle, he whistled up a tune,
And all those little sausages went dancing round the room.

Oh mr. Dunderbeck, how could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen,
They've all been ground to sausages in dunderbeck's machine.

One day the machine it busted, the darn thing wouldn't go,
So dunderbeck, he crawled inside to see what made it so,
His wife, she had a nightmare while walking in her sleep,
She gave that crank one awful yank and dunderbeck was meat.

Oh mr. Dunderbeck, how could you be so mean?
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbor's cats and dogs will nevermore be seen,
They've all been ground to sausages in dunderbeck's machine.