To ask if dd is making this song up?

[ButteryPie]

(to the tune of frere jaques)

See that mange tout,
see that mange tout,
wriggling on the ground,
wriggling on the ground,
that's not mange tout,
that is a snake.

See that carrot,
see that carrot,
flying through the air,
eating all the nectar,
that's not a carrot,
that is a bee.

See that pea,
see that pea,
hanging from the ceiling,
hanging from the ceiling,
that's not a pea
that is a bulb.

They appear to be the main verses, although she has done it with various vegetables.

Is this a trend currently sweeping nurseries, or is she some kind of unhinged comedy genius???

I used to look after a little boy who would sing under his breath, 'I've got a feeling/ That I'm dancing on the ceiling' - in a slightly troubled sort of way

Sheepling your post is putting my already fairly flabby pelvic floor into some sort of arrest as I try to stop laughing for just a minute so I can stand up and get to the loo.

DS2 is nowhere near as creative we have

"twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a BUM in the sky
Twinkle twinkle little booby head

[HMM]

She was only singing about mange tout because we had some (not very sucessfully) growing in our garden. She also thinks it's a hilarious name for a food, and even funnier because it means 'eat everything'.

Maybe I'm not giving her enough stimulation, if she thinks vegetables are funny. Odd child.

wtf does a Russian playwright have to do with it?

Oh, you know, thisis - the traditional theatre going Muscovites were quite sniffy about early Chekhov stuff... (Is that it, Spider ?)

ahhh and they would shout "Вы походите на дошкольного ребенка" at him

(according to an online translator that's russian for "you are like a pre-school child")

hmmm.... i guess MN doesn't speak Russian. we should get one of the techs onto that

How old is she? It sounds like the kind of wierd shit they sing in Rainbows!!

DS and DD went to a CofE school.

Lots of songs about baby cheeses
and Our Digger is a Great big digger - because Bob was better than God.

Wish they had had songs like OP's

I too have a DS who likes to sing about poo and willies

I've got a feeling they used to sing something along those lines at a slightly weird toddler group I used to go to. I can't remember it exactly but Frere Jacues and mange tout def ring a bell.

DS2 has recently started spelling, just 2 words mind you - courtesy of steptoe and son.

This is how a typical spelling fest goes with him.

B-U-M BUM
S-O-D SOD
then we get

B-U-M crumpet what you get in bed if you are lucky

at which point I cringe if we are in public.

The other day my 7.5yr old nephew held up both his hands to DS2 and said

DN "how many fingers am I holding up"
DS2 "2 hands you knob can't you count"

I had to hide as it was inappropriate for me to giggle but I did

we have (sung to the tune of Bob the Builder)

Peel banana, peel, peel, peel it,
peel banana, peel the skin all off..

2nd verse...chop banana

3rd verse... mash banana

4th verse...eat banana.

I regularly find myself singing this now!

We used to get "This little piggy went to Starbucks, this little piggy stayed at home"

Elanor Rigby picked up the ice in the church apparently.

Because why would there be rice at a wedding? The ice had obviously fallen out of the drinks.

Sigh.

She's four. Do they start talking sense at some point?

Sadly my ds is of the bum and poo song writing variety.

And Christmas we had endless renditions of "Farty the fart-nosed reindeer" and "Jingle BUM, jingle BUM, BUMMING all the way". I tried very hard not to laugh and to immediately wipe my mental image of the x-rated one horse open sleigh.

Bum bum pump sheep
have you any poo?
Yes pump, yes pump, three toilets full.
One for the pump master,
one for the pump dame,
and one for the little poo that lives down the pump.

Thanks for that, dd.

Dh was just laughing at the concept of the pump master. He wants a t shirt.

hahaha butterypie i love that song!!

Today's effort, after I started singing to the baby on a busy bus:

Wind your neck in,
Put a sock in it
Bum, bum, poo poo CLAP.

DD can sing herself into tears by warbling the Unicorn song (the one where they drown) and Puff. She croons it soulfully to her own reflection in the mirror and can manage full sobs on a good day.

She's more of a performer than a composer. No vegetable songs here.