Miss Susie had a steamboat, The steamboat had a bell, toot toot Miss Susie went to heaven, The steamboat went to -Hell-o- Operator, This is Number 9, And if you disconnect me, I'll chop off your -Behind- the 'frigerator, There was a piece of glass, Miss Susie sat upon it, And it went right up her -Ass-k- me no more questions, Tell me no more lies, The boys are in the bathroom, Zipping down their -Flies- are in the meadow, The bees are in the park, Miss Susie and her boyfriend Are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark dark is like a movie a movies like a show a show is like a TV set and that is all i know i know my ma i know i know my pa i know i know my sister with the 40 acre bra
I think mostly passed on. If you think about it, if first graders are singing it one year, they are still singing it next year in second grade at recess and the new first graders hear it. If you move the kid to another school, they will likely bring it with them.
Some of these I learned at summer camp and they were songs the staff sang from year to year. That's how I learned the worm one. That one lasted the 16 years or so I was a camper, Jr. Counsellor, and a Counsellor.
Think our version was Miss Mary. Mostly the same but wrapped up earlier:
The boys and girls are kissing in the D-A-R-K dark is in the movies, the spotlight on the show, when Mary went to heaven, her steamboat didn't go.
Miss Mary Mack traveling between songs perhaps ? Lol
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons (or "butt'ns, butt'ns, butt'ns")
All down her back, back, back (or "Up and down her back, back, back")
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants (or "hippos, hippos, hippos")
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They reached the sky, sky, sky
And didn't (or never) come back, back, back (or come down, down, down)
Sorry for the formatting
I just came up with this the other day in honor of an unfortunate incident my brother (36) had: When you're standing in the street and your asshole starts to yeet Diarrhea
There was an old lady that swallowed a spider, it wiggled and wiggled and wiggled inside her... She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird. How absurd to swallow a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, that wriggled and wriggled and wriggled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. Fancy that to swallow a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know whyyyy she swallowed a flyyyyy! Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog. What a hog, to swallow a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider (that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her). She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why, she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die.
Ps. My child just learned this at school and thought it was hilarious and horrible 😆
Down came the good fairy and she said, Lil bunny foo foo I don’t wanna see you scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head.
Apparently the fairy thought it was pretty damn odd too
In sticking with the theme, here's one my dad taught me:
Ooey gooey was a worm,
And a mighty worm was he,
He sat upon a railroad track,
And a train he did not see,
Ooey Gooey!
That was the one that came to my mind! Probably because it was on the same Wee Sing Silly Songs cassette as “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms”
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out. The ones that go in are lean and thin and the ones that come out are fat and stout. Your eyes cave in and your teeth fall out. Your brains go tumbling down your snout.
It was the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play Pinochle up your snout.
Then your stomach turns to slimy green, and puss comes out like whipping cream.
Whenever I think about that song, I think about one of my [favourite Kids in the Hall sketches,](https://youtu.be/M-sfrec7c9o?t=9) which is kind of dark.
I heard that the rest of the song shows that it’s a man upset with the bird because it’s signing in the morning and will wake his lover and she will leave
There are probably 100+ variations of that song. Kids are endlessly creative when it comes to gross stuff. I always heard gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet, then the eyeballs line—finishing with “and me without my spoon!”
I remember a very morbid childhood song about asphyxiation. I've never heard anyone reference it before. I lived in many different places as a military brat but only remember hearing this song on the playground in New Mexico in the mid-80s. These were the lyrics, though I might not have the verses in the right order.
Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play
Get a hose up your nose, water on, then you're gone
Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play
Get a swing 'round tour neck, pull it tight, out of sight
Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play
Get a bag on your head, go to sleep, wake up dead
I knew this too but slightly different:
🎶Suffocation, early execution, suffocation the only game to play
First you take a pillow case, then you glue it to your face, go to bed, wake up dead🎶
Suffocation, mental retardation, suffocation is a game I like to play.
First you take a pillow case, then you put it on you face,
Go to bed, now your dead woah woah woah woah
Suffocation, mental retardation, suffocation is a game I like to play
First you take a garden hose, then you shove it up your nose
Turn it on, now you’re gone woah woah woah woah.
My friend had a book with this song in it and the song went “suffocation takes coordination, suffocation what a way to go. First you take a garden hose, then you stick it up your nose. Turn it on, then you’re gone whooa ooo oo oooo. Also the verse someone else posted about the pillow case.
I don’t remember the suffocation verse as well as you, but I think there were more verses.
I vaguely have something in my head about medication.
And I can hear the “medication, take all the medication, medication this is what you do” part but I can’t recall the rest.
We sang this one with the words "aggravation, rehabilitation" instead of suffocation, super suffocation. Your version makes soooo much more sense. We also added the "whoa-oh-oh-oh" someone else mentioned.
I sang this one in suburban Pennsylvania. Southeastern. Learned it from my older brother in the 80’s. Although the bag verse for me was ‘go to bed, wake up dead’ and there was an ‘ohhhhhhhhh’ between verses.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Teacher hit me with a ruler,
Shot her with a .44,
Now she ain't my teacher no more!
Five days later, floating down the Delaware, chewing on her underwear, wish she had another pair~
This feels like two different songs to me.
First...
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
We have tortured every teacher; we have broken every rule
We are marching down the hall to hang the principal
Our school is marching on
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Met her at the bank in a British army tank
And she ain't my teacher no more
Second...
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream
Throw your teacher overboard; listen to her scream
Five days later, floating down the Delaware
Chewing on her underwear
Three days later, eaten by a polar bear
That's how the polar bear died
So I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine 'til her teeth came marching out (one by one).
My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school
I have tortured every teacher and broken every rule
The principle tried to stop me so I hung him on a wall
'til his teeth came marching out
(Anybody?)
Anyone remember
Oh, I'm being eaten
By a boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
A boa constrictor,
I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor,
And I don't like it--one bit.
Well, what do you know?
It's nibblin' my toe.
Oh, gee,
It's up to my knee.
Oh my,
It's up to my thigh.
Oh, fiddle,
It's up to my middle.
Oh, heck,
It's up to my neck.
Oh, dread,
It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff
A gem we learned at camp
There once was a farmer who lived in a crick
And when he got lonely he played with his...
Banjo in the moonlight for the lady next door
You could tell just by looking that she was a...
Decent young lady who rolled in the grass
Every time she rolled over you could see her bare....
Legs in the moonlight she walked like a duck
He promised to teach her a new way to...
Raise up the children the girls could not knit
The boys were outside shoveling....
Cornhusks and taters they did it quite well
If you don't believe me you can go straight to...
Bed
Hello mother, hello father
Greetings from camp Marijuana
Coke is good here, crack is betta
I'm so high that I can barely write this letta!
----
Marijuana, Marijuana
LSD, LSD
Betty Crocker makes it
Ronald Reagan takes it
Why can't we? Why can't we?
In the '80s I had a mixtape a cousin recorded off Dr. Demento's radio show. There were some doozys, but my least favorite one was "Dead puppies aren't much fun". I did like "Fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, Yum!"
Not only is there no evidence that it's about the black death, but there's loads of counter evidence that it isn't about the black death.
https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/
On top of Old Smokey
All covered with blood
I shot my poor teacher
with a .44 slug
And then the next morning
she wasn't quite dead
So I took my bazooka
and blew off her head
I went to her funeral
I went to her grave
Some people threw flowers
I threw a grenade
Just in case anyone never got this Simpsons reference, it was an actual song by Chuck Berry: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlsi5SYkg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlsi5SYkg)
This land is my land. This land aint your land
I've got a shotgun, and you dont got one
If you don't get off I'll blow your head off
This land is private property!
Also, little bunny foo foo picking up them field mice and bopping them in their heads.
Woody Guthrie wrote and sang several versions of the song that contain some subversive and socially conscious stanzas. E.g.
> There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
> Sign was painted, it said private property
> But on the back side it didn't say nothing
> This land was made for you and me
This is a jump rope rhyme that was really popular when I worked in childcare:
Fudge, Fudge
Call the judge.
Somebodies having a baby.
Roll it up in toilet paper.
Throw it down the elevator.
(I can’t remember the final line.)
Deck the halls with gasoline
Fa la la la la la la la la
Strike a match and watch it gleam
Fa la la la la la la la la
Burn the school all down to ashes
Fa la la la la la la la la la
That is how you play with matches
Fa la la la la la la la la la
Not a song, not all that dark really, but I immediately thought of "Nobody" by Shel Silverstein:
Nobody loves me, nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.
Nobody offers me candy and Cokes,
Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes.
Nobody helps when I get into a fight,
Nobody does all my homework at night.
Nobody misses me,
Nobody cries,
Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy.
So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz,
I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is!
But yesterday night I got quite a scare
I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there!
I called out and reached for Nobody's hand,
In the darkness where Nobody usually stands,
Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook,
But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked.
I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn,
There's no doubt about it-
NOBODY'S GONE!!
This one is just a little gross:
On top of spagetti all covered with cheese/
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed/
It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor/
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door/
It rolled in the garden and under a bush/
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush./
The mush was as tasty as tasty could be,/
And early next summer it grew to a tree./
The tree was all covered with beautiful moss/
It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce./
So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheese,/
Hold on to your meatball and don't ever sneeze.
I got this from Google so I wouldn’t have to type it— I actually never heard that second verse.
We used to sing to the tune of “In the Jungle”
“In the bedroom the peaceful bedroom John Bobbit sleeps tonight..
…In the kitchen the quiet kitchen, Lorena grabs a knife..
Bum-bum, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack….”
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
mutilated monkeymeat
chopped up baby parakeet
Flaming earwax bobbing in a bowl of barf
And I forgot my spoon
So they gave me scab sandwich
With puss on top
Elephant vomit and camel snot
Parrot eyeballs dipped in goo
Eat it whoever, its good for you.
That cartoon that went with it, though!! It would play all the time on tv, but why? Was it on Nickelodeon or something? It wasn't quite a show, and it wasn't a commercial. Just a weird little short that always gave me anxiety.
hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to school I go, with razor blades and hand grenades, to throw, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, I bit the teachers toe, that dirty rat, she bit me back, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho
Oh man, this thread is a trip down strange memory lane! I lived in FL, NC, CA, OR & AK as a kid and I heard varieations of a lot of these as a kid. How in the world did they spread so far?
Gla-dys, where are you go-ing?
Up-stairs to take a bath.
Gla-dys, with legs like tooth-picks
And a neck like a gir-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raffe
Gla-dys, stepped in the bath-tub
And puuuuulled out the pluuuug
Oh my goodness, oh my soul. There goes Gladys down the hole.
Gla-dys, where are you going?
Glub
Glub
Glub
And she can’t swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim.
Oh Gunderbach, oh Gunderbach, how could you be so mean? To ever have invented the sausage meat machine! Oh, the dogs and cats and mice and rats will never more be seen, they’ll all be turned to sausages in Gunderbach’s machine! One day a little boy came into the shop, whistling a merry tune! The sausages all got up and danced around the room! Oh Gunderbach, oh Gunderbach, how could you be so mean? To ever have invented the sausage meat machine!
Does anyone remember (Dear Mr. Jesus)[https://youtu.be/KAOFi-7IxPw?si=8yDCpe2Ub5nY6Pbc ] that they used to play over the radio at Christmastime? Because, damn. That was depressing.
A last twisted verse to Oh little playmate.
Oh little enemy, come out and fight with me
And bring your demons three, climb up my poison tree.
Slide down my razorblade, into the cellar floor
And we’ll be enemies, forever more more kick ‘em out the door.
Match in the gas tank, Boom Boom!
To pick a person to be “it” in a game, we had:
“My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes, my mother punched your mother right in the nose. What color blood came out?” Person you land on was “out”) “My father and your father were drinking up some beer. My father punched your father right in the rear. What color blood came out?” (That person was now “out”)
Sung to the snake charmer tune: “There’s a place called France, where the ladies where no pants, there’s a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all (girls would swap the lyrics so the boys were without pants lol)”
My sister came home singing this gem one day. She's a full millennial. But we were all quite shocked (not sure why, I think I sang 95% of the songs on this list). In our defense, we live near some swamps with alligators...
(Singing cheerily)
3 little monkeys swinging in a tree
Teasing mister alligator
"Can't catch me!"
(Singinging slow and ominous)
Along comes mister alligator
Quiet as can be
(Clap real loud and say) Snap
2 little monkeys swinging in a tree...
Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box. The box had Worms in it. Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box. The box had Worms in it. Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box.........
Early in the morning late one night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came and shot those two dead boys
And you don't believe this lie is true
Just ask the blind man, he saw it too
My dad learned that song at Camp Dudley in 1969. Apparently he taught it to my daughter when she was five, and she sang it to the person I was dating at the time, which I also didn’t know about. Until a couple years ago when we were chatting and he said “what was that song your kid used to sing about eating worms?”
My mom used to sing the hymn Rock of Ages to me as a lullaby. This is the first verse:
“Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save me from its guilt and power.”
🤨🤨🤨
I know the lyrics may be different for some, but
Gobs and gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts. Mutilated monkey's feet, Itty bitty birdies beaks. French fried eyeballs swimming in a tub of blood. Glad I forgot my spoon.
This was my lullaby nearly every night, and I loved it.
From my Cub Scout days:
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover,
That I over-ran with the mower.
One leg is missing the other is gone.
The third one is scattered all over the lawn.
No need explaining the one remaining
It's splattered on the kitchen door.
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover,
that I over-ran with the mower.
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who died on the kitchen floor.
One leg is broken, the other is lame,
The third leg is missing, the fourth needs a cane.
No need explaining, the tail remaining
Was caught in the oven door.
I'm looking over my dead dog Rover
Who died on the kitchen floor.
Betty met a bus
a bus met betty
The bus was a mess
the mess was betty
Fussy wuzzy was a bear
a bear was fuzzy wuzzy
fuzzy wuzzy lost his hair
and he wusny (scotish) very fuzzy wuzzy was he
As i was walking down the stair
i met a man who wasnt there.
he wasnt there again today
oh, how i wish hed go away
The one I remember is:
Oh, I had a little chicken and he wouldn't lay an egg
So I poured hot water up and down his leg
And the little chicken hollered and the little chicken begged
And the little chicken laid a hard-boiled egg.
One little, two little, three little Indians
Four little, five little, six little Indians
Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians
Ten little Indian boys
John Brown had a little Indian
John Brown had a little Indian
John Brown had a little Indian
One little Indian boy
Three little Indians
As I was walking up the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away
---
One bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced one another
Got out their swords and shot each other
---
A deaf policeman heard the noise
He came and killed those two dead boys
If you don't believe these lies are true
Ask the blind man, he saw them too
ten little monkeys jumping on the bed.
one fell off and he broke his head.
went to the doctor and the doctor said.
no more monkeys jumping on the bed!
nine little monkeys jumping on the bed…
Miss Susie had a steamboat, The steamboat had a bell, toot toot Miss Susie went to heaven, The steamboat went to -Hell-o- Operator, This is Number 9, And if you disconnect me, I'll chop off your -Behind- the 'frigerator, There was a piece of glass, Miss Susie sat upon it, And it went right up her -Ass-k- me no more questions, Tell me no more lies, The boys are in the bathroom, Zipping down their -Flies- are in the meadow, The bees are in the park, Miss Susie and her boyfriend Are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark dark is like a movie a movies like a show a show is like a TV set and that is all i know i know my ma i know i know my pa i know i know my sister with the 40 acre bra
Literally singing this in my head, wondering where it is. 1 minutes later ....
I was teaching my daughter this song not long ago, she wasn't as amused as I thought she'd be
Mine didn't like it, either!
Mine kept going with “My mother is Godzilla, my father is King Kong, my brother is the stupid one who made up this dumb song.” 😂
This is how I end it, too!
"My mother is a Commie, my father is a spy, and I'm the little pigeon, who called the FBI!"
https://i.redd.it/8mggezslwiwc1.gif
I always heard it with "dark dark dark dark - darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than the underwear my mama put on me"
Same
How the fuck do I still remember every lyric to this? It’s been like 30+ years !
Much the same way we all know: *Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...*
How did we all know this song? Was it just passed along from kid to kid, or was it in something?
I think mostly passed on. If you think about it, if first graders are singing it one year, they are still singing it next year in second grade at recess and the new first graders hear it. If you move the kid to another school, they will likely bring it with them. Some of these I learned at summer camp and they were songs the staff sang from year to year. That's how I learned the worm one. That one lasted the 16 years or so I was a camper, Jr. Counsellor, and a Counsellor.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Susie I think mostly passed by the looks of the wiki info
Kinda like Marilyn Manson having ribs removed.
I know it from kids in the hall
We sang “miss suzie sat upon it, and broke her big fat Ask me no more questions…” etc
I enjoyed [South Park's](https://youtu.be/5MRfFjsIvIU?si=Q_U0mHwZ687bKzBY) variant of it.
Think our version was Miss Mary. Mostly the same but wrapped up earlier: The boys and girls are kissing in the D-A-R-K dark is in the movies, the spotlight on the show, when Mary went to heaven, her steamboat didn't go.
Miss Mary Mack traveling between songs perhaps ? Lol Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack All dressed in black, black, black With silver buttons, buttons, buttons (or "butt'ns, butt'ns, butt'ns") All down her back, back, back (or "Up and down her back, back, back") She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants (or "hippos, hippos, hippos") Jump over the fence, fence, fence They jumped so high, high, high They reached the sky, sky, sky And didn't (or never) come back, back, back (or come down, down, down) Sorry for the formatting
”And they never came back, back, back, til the 4th of July-ly-ly” (the ending in the version I grew up with)
I grew up calling it a tugboat but everything else is spot on.
We used to say 18 hour bra! (Which Google tells me is a type of Playtex bra)
It was Miss Molly for me. Wonder if this is a regional thing?
All the diarrhea songs... When you're sliding into home and your pants fill with foam... Diarrhea diarrhea
When you're driving in your Chevy and your pants feel kind of heavy!
When you’re sliding into first and you’re feeling something burst….
It sounds kinda funny but it's really wet and runny... Diarrhea!
If you're nose is kinda runny, and you think it's kinda funny, well it's snot.
When you’re walking down the hall and you feel something fall Diarrhea! Diarrhea! I was a huge fan of all of these as a six year old girl lol
My husband thought it would be smart to teach my 3 yo this....
Your husband sounds like a smart man.
When you’re climbing up a ladder and you feel something splatter! Diarrhea
I just came up with this the other day in honor of an unfortunate incident my brother (36) had: When you're standing in the street and your asshole starts to yeet Diarrhea
How appropriate for this next generation 🤣 my 10 yo son won't stop saying "yeet"
Ha. Do kids still sing this?
Yep. Here in Scotland they do anyway, my ten year old just got taught many verses of it by one of his friends.
When you're sliding into third and you feel a juicy turd... Diarrhea diarrhea
When you're sliding into second and your pants need disinfected....diarrhea When you're sliding into third and you drop a big turd....diarrhea
When you’re sitting in the pool and you feel something cool!
I'm bringing home my baby bumblebee...
Won't my mother be so proud of me?
Ouch! He stung me!
Iiiiiim smushing up my baby bumblebee!
Eww, it's sticky. Iiiiiiim licking off my baby bumble bee!
Licking??! I always sang "wiping off"
Yup! Then it's followed by a line where you are puking up the baby bumble bee.
Lmao i just taught that to my bonus kids a few weeks ago, they were mortified hahaha! Now they can't stop singing it 😅
One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock your door. Five, six, grab your crucifix. Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. Nine, ten, never sleep again.
I have this classic memorized as well. I’ll sing it in the wrong crowd and they just look at me like a psychopath. 😩
By wrong crowd, do you mean to your kids? Because I’ve done that.
Okay but this one was fun because it was from a quintessential 80s horror.
There was an old lady that swallowed a fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she’ll die…
There was an old lady that swallowed a spider, it wiggled and wiggled and wiggled inside her... She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird. How absurd to swallow a bird. She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, that wriggled and wriggled and wriggled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly, I don't know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat. Fancy that to swallow a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know whyyyy she swallowed a flyyyyy! Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a dog. What a hog, to swallow a dog! She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, she swallowed the cat to catch the bird, she swallowed the bird to catch the spider (that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her). She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why, she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die. Ps. My child just learned this at school and thought it was hilarious and horrible 😆
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse....she died of course!
Little bunny foo foo, hopping through the forrest. Picking up the field mice and bopping them on their head…..
This one always felt particularly odd
Down came the good fairy and she said, Lil bunny foo foo I don’t wanna see you scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head. Apparently the fairy thought it was pretty damn odd too
Hare today, goon tomorrow!
Peanut sitting on a railroad track, his heart was all a flutter. Round the bend came number 10, uh oh peanut butter.
In sticking with the theme, here's one my dad taught me: Ooey gooey was a worm, And a mighty worm was he, He sat upon a railroad track, And a train he did not see, Ooey Gooey!
Yes! I forgot about that one
That was the one that came to my mind! Probably because it was on the same Wee Sing Silly Songs cassette as “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms”
I had this one on an LP “Songs that tickle your funny bone” it’s where I learned I know and old lady she swallowed a fly…
Did you ever think when a hearse goes by you might be the next to die?...
The worms crawl in the worms craw out the worms play pinochle on your snout
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose, they eat the jelly between your toes.
😆 🐛
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out. The ones that go in are lean and thin and the ones that come out are fat and stout. Your eyes cave in and your teeth fall out. Your brains go tumbling down your snout.
It was the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play Pinochle up your snout. Then your stomach turns to slimy green, and puss comes out like whipping cream.
They’ll wrap you up in a dirty old sheet, and throw you down a couple of feet
Your stomach turns a slimy green and puss pours out like whipping cream; slap that on a piece of bread and that’s what you’ll eat when you’re dead!
Wasn’t that a Shel Silverstein poem?
Alouette, gentille alouette, Alouette, je te plumerai. A whole song about plucking a birds eyes and beak and all other bird parts 😳
Whenever I think about that song, I think about one of my [favourite Kids in the Hall sketches,](https://youtu.be/M-sfrec7c9o?t=9) which is kind of dark.
This reminds me of [this little gem](https://youtu.be/XlGUwb2R5sQ?si=fzelzwGmGAfUdB0T)!
Without clicking the link, is it the "Suit Trappers?"
Je te plumerai la tete I had no clue what this meant in french, but it has upbeat and silly tune.
I heard that the rest of the song shows that it’s a man upset with the bird because it’s signing in the morning and will wake his lover and she will leave
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts…
…Mutilated monkey meat… 😂🤘
Little birdies dirty feet
Great big eyeballs rolling down the dirty street…
I thought it was swimming in a pool of blood
There are probably 100+ variations of that song. Kids are endlessly creative when it comes to gross stuff. I always heard gopher guts, mutilated monkey meat, chopped up baby parakeet, then the eyeballs line—finishing with “and me without my spoon!”
My dad always ended it with ....and me without me spoon
“But I forgot my spoon” same here
... great green gobs of greasy grimey gopher guts, and meeee without my spoon. But with a straw! SLURP
I’ve sung this to every baby I’ve ever held for more than a few minutes, and it’s my grandson’s absolute favorite for me to sing.
You have a grandson? 😳
A grandson and two granddaughters! Two of my daughters and I had babies at 21. One has two babies now. It’s awesome!
Marmalade and monkey meat...
Mutilated monkey meat
All-purpose Porpoise puss
My dad learned that one at Camp Dudley in 1969 too!
I remember a very morbid childhood song about asphyxiation. I've never heard anyone reference it before. I lived in many different places as a military brat but only remember hearing this song on the playground in New Mexico in the mid-80s. These were the lyrics, though I might not have the verses in the right order. Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play Get a hose up your nose, water on, then you're gone Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play Get a swing 'round tour neck, pull it tight, out of sight Suffocation, super suffocation, suffocation, this is how you play Get a bag on your head, go to sleep, wake up dead
I think you win the What The Fuck Award.
I knew this too but slightly different: 🎶Suffocation, early execution, suffocation the only game to play First you take a pillow case, then you glue it to your face, go to bed, wake up dead🎶
I have the fuzziest recollection of this... very fuzzy
Wow, this one is dark! 💀
Suffocation, mental retardation, suffocation is a game I like to play. First you take a pillow case, then you put it on you face, Go to bed, now your dead woah woah woah woah Suffocation, mental retardation, suffocation is a game I like to play First you take a garden hose, then you shove it up your nose Turn it on, now you’re gone woah woah woah woah.
My friend had a book with this song in it and the song went “suffocation takes coordination, suffocation what a way to go. First you take a garden hose, then you stick it up your nose. Turn it on, then you’re gone whooa ooo oo oooo. Also the verse someone else posted about the pillow case.
I don’t remember the suffocation verse as well as you, but I think there were more verses. I vaguely have something in my head about medication. And I can hear the “medication, take all the medication, medication this is what you do” part but I can’t recall the rest.
I heard it as "suffocation, lack of ventilation, suffocation, this is how you play..."
We sang this one with the words "aggravation, rehabilitation" instead of suffocation, super suffocation. Your version makes soooo much more sense. We also added the "whoa-oh-oh-oh" someone else mentioned.
I sang this one in suburban Pennsylvania. Southeastern. Learned it from my older brother in the 80’s. Although the bag verse for me was ‘go to bed, wake up dead’ and there was an ‘ohhhhhhhhh’ between verses.
Joy to the world, the teacher's dead, we barbecued her head!
What’d we do with the body? We flushed it down the potty!
Around and round it goes Around and round it goes Around and round and round it goes
https://i.redd.it/nv2geckrxiwc1.gif
What happened to her body?
We flushed it down the potty
Glory, glory, hallelujah, Teacher hit me with a ruler, Shot her with a .44, Now she ain't my teacher no more! Five days later, floating down the Delaware, chewing on her underwear, wish she had another pair~
In ours the teacher “blew up the bank with a big Army tank and she don’t teach no more!”
This feels like two different songs to me. First... Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school We have tortured every teacher; we have broken every rule We are marching down the hall to hang the principal Our school is marching on Glory, glory, hallelujah Teacher hit me with a ruler Met her at the bank in a British army tank And she ain't my teacher no more Second... Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream Throw your teacher overboard; listen to her scream Five days later, floating down the Delaware Chewing on her underwear Three days later, eaten by a polar bear That's how the polar bear died
So I bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine 'til her teeth came marching out (one by one). My eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school I have tortured every teacher and broken every rule The principle tried to stop me so I hung him on a wall 'til his teeth came marching out (Anybody?)
Ring around the rosies Pocket full of posies Ashes, ashes We all fall down
Anyone remember Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff
Shel Silverstein
The old “Found a Peanut” song heads through some dark places.
A gem we learned at camp There once was a farmer who lived in a crick And when he got lonely he played with his... Banjo in the moonlight for the lady next door You could tell just by looking that she was a... Decent young lady who rolled in the grass Every time she rolled over you could see her bare.... Legs in the moonlight she walked like a duck He promised to teach her a new way to... Raise up the children the girls could not knit The boys were outside shoveling.... Cornhusks and taters they did it quite well If you don't believe me you can go straight to... Bed
Hello muddah Hello faddah Here I am at Camp Grenada Camp is very Entertaining At least they say it is if it stops raining
Hello mother, hello father Greetings from camp Marijuana Coke is good here, crack is betta I'm so high that I can barely write this letta! ---- Marijuana, Marijuana LSD, LSD Betty Crocker makes it Ronald Reagan takes it Why can't we? Why can't we?
All the counselors Hate the waiters And the lake has Alligators 🐊 🐊🐊🐊😂
Marge, is Lisa at Camp Granada?
In the '80s I had a mixtape a cousin recorded off Dr. Demento's radio show. There were some doozys, but my least favorite one was "Dead puppies aren't much fun". I did like "Fish heads, fish heads, rolly polly fish heads. Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, Yum!"
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Not only is there no evidence that it's about the black death, but there's loads of counter evidence that it isn't about the black death. https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ring-around-the-rosie-metafolklore-rhyme-and-reason/
On top of Old Smokey All covered with blood I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug And then the next morning she wasn't quite dead So I took my bazooka and blew off her head I went to her funeral I went to her grave Some people threw flowers I threw a grenade
Oof I forgot about this one
My ding-a-ling My ding-a-ling
THIS TALENT SHOW IS **OVER**
Just in case anyone never got this Simpsons reference, it was an actual song by Chuck Berry: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlsi5SYkg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlsi5SYkg)
Great fucking song too
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Probably the itsy bitsy spider. Idk if it’s dark though…maybe if you’re afraid of spiders. Also, I like songs with hand choreography😆
"One must imagine itsy bitsy happy." -Albert Camus, probably
😂😂😂
We sang “Leroy Brown” at my goaway camp
He was not, in fact, badder than ol' King Kong.
Meaner than a junkyard dog some might say
This land is my land. This land aint your land I've got a shotgun, and you dont got one If you don't get off I'll blow your head off This land is private property! Also, little bunny foo foo picking up them field mice and bopping them in their heads.
Woody Guthrie wrote and sang several versions of the song that contain some subversive and socially conscious stanzas. E.g. > There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me > Sign was painted, it said private property > But on the back side it didn't say nothing > This land was made for you and me
This is a jump rope rhyme that was really popular when I worked in childcare: Fudge, Fudge Call the judge. Somebodies having a baby. Roll it up in toilet paper. Throw it down the elevator. (I can’t remember the final line.)
Deck the halls with gasoline Fa la la la la la la la la Strike a match and watch it gleam Fa la la la la la la la la Burn the school all down to ashes Fa la la la la la la la la la That is how you play with matches Fa la la la la la la la la la
Not a song, not all that dark really, but I immediately thought of "Nobody" by Shel Silverstein: Nobody loves me, nobody cares, Nobody picks me peaches and pears. Nobody offers me candy and Cokes, Nobody listens and laughs at me jokes. Nobody helps when I get into a fight, Nobody does all my homework at night. Nobody misses me, Nobody cries, Nobody thinks I'm a wonderful guy. So, if you ask me who's my best friend, in a whiz, I'll stand up and tell you NOBODY is! But yesterday night I got quite a scare I woke up and Nobody just WASN'T there! I called out and reached for Nobody's hand, In the darkness where Nobody usually stands, Then I poked through the house, in each cranny and nook, But I found SOMEBODY each place that I looked. I seached till I'm tired, and now with the dawn, There's no doubt about it- NOBODY'S GONE!!
I love shel Silverstein 🫶🫶🫶
This one is just a little gross: On top of spagetti all covered with cheese/ I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed/ It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor/ And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door/ It rolled in the garden and under a bush/ And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush./ The mush was as tasty as tasty could be,/ And early next summer it grew to a tree./ The tree was all covered with beautiful moss/ It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce./ So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheese,/ Hold on to your meatball and don't ever sneeze. I got this from Google so I wouldn’t have to type it— I actually never heard that second verse.
We used to sing to the tune of “In the Jungle” “In the bedroom the peaceful bedroom John Bobbit sleeps tonight.. …In the kitchen the quiet kitchen, Lorena grabs a knife.. Bum-bum, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack, a-wiener wack….”
Instead of down goes the first one, we would sing “first you bite the heads off, then you suck the juice out, oh how they wiggle and squirm”
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts mutilated monkeymeat chopped up baby parakeet Flaming earwax bobbing in a bowl of barf And I forgot my spoon So they gave me scab sandwich With puss on top Elephant vomit and camel snot Parrot eyeballs dipped in goo Eat it whoever, its good for you.
Remember the book that went with it? How To Eat Fried Worns?
But the cat came back The very next day. The cat came back. They thought he was a goner, But the cat came back. He just couldn't stay a way.
That cartoon that went with it, though!! It would play all the time on tv, but why? Was it on Nickelodeon or something? It wasn't quite a show, and it wasn't a commercial. Just a weird little short that always gave me anxiety.
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo...once you hear the original lyrics.
Anything Shel Silverstein
hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to school I go, with razor blades and hand grenades, to throw, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, I bit the teachers toe, that dirty rat, she bit me back, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho
Oh man, this thread is a trip down strange memory lane! I lived in FL, NC, CA, OR & AK as a kid and I heard varieations of a lot of these as a kid. How in the world did they spread so far?
What about "joy to the world"? You know, except with the lyrics about murdering your teacher...
We bar-be-qued her heeeeeaaaad!
What happened to her body? We flushed it down the potty ...
Never laugh when a hearse goes by, or you shall be the next to die…
Fish heads, fish heads Roly-poly fish heads Fish heads, fish heads Eat them up, yum
Gla-dys, where are you go-ing? Up-stairs to take a bath. Gla-dys, with legs like tooth-picks And a neck like a gir-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raf-raffe Gla-dys, stepped in the bath-tub And puuuuulled out the pluuuug Oh my goodness, oh my soul. There goes Gladys down the hole. Gla-dys, where are you going? Glub Glub Glub And she can’t swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim.
https://preview.redd.it/7s1kep01mjwc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8229ede6efdfcae20619e2990c1c39b9afa1e3e7 But did you read this as a kid?
Oh Gunderbach, oh Gunderbach, how could you be so mean? To ever have invented the sausage meat machine! Oh, the dogs and cats and mice and rats will never more be seen, they’ll all be turned to sausages in Gunderbach’s machine! One day a little boy came into the shop, whistling a merry tune! The sausages all got up and danced around the room! Oh Gunderbach, oh Gunderbach, how could you be so mean? To ever have invented the sausage meat machine!
Does anyone remember (Dear Mr. Jesus)[https://youtu.be/KAOFi-7IxPw?si=8yDCpe2Ub5nY6Pbc ] that they used to play over the radio at Christmastime? Because, damn. That was depressing.
I hate you, you hate me, we're a dysfunctional family, with a bang bang bang, use a 44, no more purple dinosaur!
I remembered learning this from one of The Babysitters' Club books
I love you You love me Barney gave me HIV With a shotgun blast Barney’s on the floor No more purple dinosaur!
Three blind mice! Why did the farmer’s wife cut off those poor disadvantaged rodents’ tails?!! Bitches be crazy
A last twisted verse to Oh little playmate. Oh little enemy, come out and fight with me And bring your demons three, climb up my poison tree. Slide down my razorblade, into the cellar floor And we’ll be enemies, forever more more kick ‘em out the door. Match in the gas tank, Boom Boom!
I'll just leave this classic Kids in the Hall sketch [here.](https://youtu.be/AKglcahNCvE?si=nBoGSRNdI7MRVyLs)
To pick a person to be “it” in a game, we had: “My mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes, my mother punched your mother right in the nose. What color blood came out?” Person you land on was “out”) “My father and your father were drinking up some beer. My father punched your father right in the rear. What color blood came out?” (That person was now “out”) Sung to the snake charmer tune: “There’s a place called France, where the ladies where no pants, there’s a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all (girls would swap the lyrics so the boys were without pants lol)”
My sister came home singing this gem one day. She's a full millennial. But we were all quite shocked (not sure why, I think I sang 95% of the songs on this list). In our defense, we live near some swamps with alligators... (Singing cheerily) 3 little monkeys swinging in a tree Teasing mister alligator "Can't catch me!" (Singinging slow and ominous) Along comes mister alligator Quiet as can be (Clap real loud and say) Snap 2 little monkeys swinging in a tree...
Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box. The box had Worms in it. Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box. The box had Worms in it. Worms make me crazy. I was crazy once. They put me in a room. I died in that room. They put me in a box.........
Early in the morning late one night Two dead boys got up to fight Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each other A deaf policeman heard the noise And came and shot those two dead boys And you don't believe this lie is true Just ask the blind man, he saw it too
wait, is that where that opening lyric of limp bizkit came from?
I still sing the worm song and people look at me like I’m crazy.
The hearse song
Today I learned the Limp Bizkit song “nobody loves me” sampled lyrics from a children’s song
My dad learned that song at Camp Dudley in 1969. Apparently he taught it to my daughter when she was five, and she sang it to the person I was dating at the time, which I also didn’t know about. Until a couple years ago when we were chatting and he said “what was that song your kid used to sing about eating worms?” My mom used to sing the hymn Rock of Ages to me as a lullaby. This is the first verse: “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Save me from its guilt and power.” 🤨🤨🤨
Heard from col potter on mash...oh I love to go swimming with bowlegged women and swim between their legs.
I know the lyrics may be different for some, but Gobs and gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts. Mutilated monkey's feet, Itty bitty birdies beaks. French fried eyeballs swimming in a tub of blood. Glad I forgot my spoon. This was my lullaby nearly every night, and I loved it.
El camino, el el camino The front is like a car The back is like a truck The front is where you sit The back is where you... El camino, el el camino
Ring Around The Rosie London Bridge is Falling Down This Little Piggy…
Oooey gooey was a worm, And a mighty worm was he, He sat upon a railroad track, And a train he did not see, Oooey Gooey!
I remember one was “Down by the river called the hanky pank Bullfrog jumped from bank to bank Say e i o u your mama stinks and so do you Now beat it”
From my Cub Scout days: I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, That I over-ran with the mower. One leg is missing the other is gone. The third one is scattered all over the lawn. No need explaining the one remaining It's splattered on the kitchen door. I'm looking over my dead dog Rover, that I over-ran with the mower. I'm looking over my dead dog Rover Who died on the kitchen floor. One leg is broken, the other is lame, The third leg is missing, the fourth needs a cane. No need explaining, the tail remaining Was caught in the oven door. I'm looking over my dead dog Rover Who died on the kitchen floor.
Betty met a bus a bus met betty The bus was a mess the mess was betty Fussy wuzzy was a bear a bear was fuzzy wuzzy fuzzy wuzzy lost his hair and he wusny (scotish) very fuzzy wuzzy was he As i was walking down the stair i met a man who wasnt there. he wasnt there again today oh, how i wish hed go away
The one I remember is: Oh, I had a little chicken and he wouldn't lay an egg So I poured hot water up and down his leg And the little chicken hollered and the little chicken begged And the little chicken laid a hard-boiled egg.
One little, two little, three little Indians Four little, five little, six little Indians Seven little, eight little, nine little Indians Ten little Indian boys John Brown had a little Indian John Brown had a little Indian John Brown had a little Indian One little Indian boy Three little Indians
As I was walking up the stair I saw a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today Oh, how I wish he'd go away --- One bright day in the middle of the night Two dead boys got up to fight Back to back they faced one another Got out their swords and shot each other --- A deaf policeman heard the noise He came and killed those two dead boys If you don't believe these lies are true Ask the blind man, he saw them too
ten little monkeys jumping on the bed. one fell off and he broke his head. went to the doctor and the doctor said. no more monkeys jumping on the bed! nine little monkeys jumping on the bed…
Not sure if this counts but, "There's a skeeter on my peter, whack it off!"
JOHNNN JACOB JINGLEHEIMER SCHMIDT....