To think that if I never hear Wind the fecking Bobbin Up again it'll be too soon!

[Bellerina2]

I find that song whiny and beyond annoying but they sing it at every singalong I've ever been to with DS! Are there any other kids songs that irritate MNetters?

It's not whiny, you must be singing it badly

I hate 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes', especially when they go through it missing a bit out until your miming the whole body lot like a mug.

That fucking one that people sing to their digits. "Tommy thumb, Tommy thumb, where are you?"

On your bloody hand. Same as ever. Tosspot.

I miss that song!!! Mine are all big now and refuse to sing it anymore - spoil sports! So what if they are teenagers! Enjoy it while it lasts!

Do they still sing" The wheels on the bus" and "Tommy thumb, Tommy thumb where are you"?
Dd is 26 and me and dh can still sing these word for word

I just find it pointless what child in this day and age knows what a bobbin is?? I am fed up with Mary had a little lamb since getting it stuck in my head and waking up humming it at 4am!!

And who knew, pre-DCs that there were so many verses to Row Row Row Your Boat? What sort of river are they rowing down that they see crocodiles, lions and polar bears??

Oh god, it is SO whiny..a real drone of a song.

The hokey cokey kills me, I remember being at a baby group with dd1 doing it with a room full of mums all with the same look of 'oh my god this may be worse than childbirth' on our faces.

8 years, 3 children and 1000s of hokey cokeys later, I still feel the same sinking feeling when some over enthusiastic jolly mum suggests the hokey fucking cokey.

No I love it when DS sings it. I think it's cute. But then I think everything he sings is cute.

Agree about heads, shoulders... It's not a proper song, just makes you look like knob

Haha! We just sang this three times on the way home from town! Think everyone we passed hated it after that too (my voice is soooo rubbish!)! Worst ones for me are I'm a little Tea Pot (can Never get the time right) & Blasted Mary had a Lyell Little lamb.... Now that is whiny!! :(

I must sing it particularly well as both mine love it...and for that I am eternally grateful to the bobbin, has saved many a car journey for me!

MrsDeVere - that must be Tiny Tim the turtle you are thinking of.

He has a bubble in his throat due to the soap he ate in the bath

I'm having flashbacks to a particular dire stay-and-play I went to a few times where one of the militant SAHD dads used to lead a compulsory singing segment. All the singing was horrible but the Dingle Dangle Scarecrow and the Sleeping Bunnies were particularly grim.

You need the dinosaur version - same tune as WTBU

There's a dinosaur
There's a dinosaur
Look
Look
ROAR ROAR ROAR
There's another one
There's another one
Look
Look
ROAR ROAR ROAR
There's one on the ceiling
There's one on the floor
There's one at the window
There's one at the door
Clap your hands together
One two three
Dinosaur dinosaur
DON'T EAT ME!

I agree Op, but raise you Five Little Fucking Monkeys Jumping On The Bed.

I want to beat their remaining brains out on the floor. I am GLAD they bumped their heads! I get this bloody song a minimum of half a dozen times every day from DD. With variations (jumping on the floor, sitting on the bed, five little mummies etc).

I hate the fecking Hokey Cokey.

Thought it would go down a treat with a school full of Italian teeny tinies
earning parts of the body.

No.

Cause Pile of Small Children trying to murder each other in style of human bumper cars while displaying a profound disinterest in learning words for parts of body ?

Yes. That it did just fine.

The elderly nun looked like she was going to have a stroke.

I do like a good go of Five Little Monkeys though. Wears them right out. And nobody ends at the bottom of a tiny human heap.

Old McDonald.. His farm needs to get out of my life!! The song just makes me really cross and I'm not sure why? Jealousy from my child years surrounding a farm maybe?

5 little ducks too.. What kind of mother doesn't think 'oh my ducks have wondered off.. But its ok everyday ill keep sending them out to play.. Oh crap I've lost another...' How they all made it back in the end is beyond me!

Oh I like that song, it was DDs favourite when she was 3.

Mind you, she used to call a bum a "bobby" and for some reason instead of singing "wind the bobbin up" she sang "wind my bobby up"

I liked Wind the Bobbin up! At the Jo Jingles we went to, they played a very funky arrangement of it which helped a lot.

My bete noires were:

Old Macdonald (after a few years, not even inserting random new species could alleviate its screaming tedium)

Wheels on the Bus - not just the most boring tune ever, but sexist lyrics too

I'm a little teapot - just embarrassing.

My DC have outgrown this stage now, sob -cheer

Ahh sleeping bunnies.

Shall we go and wake them with a merry tune?

No, feck off.

Mind you, my DF still blames me for years of ribbing at work when I was a toddler when he was caught wandering around the workshop amidst multiple other blokes doing car repairs singing absently to himself "my name is Mrs Rabbit and happy is my lot...."

Oh sleeping bunnies! I always used to have to suppress a snigger at the terrible lines:

Oh how still?
Are they ill?

:o

You should sing it like dd used to.... Wind the bobbin up poo poo crap crap crap... :) you will never hear the right words again! And they may not choose that song any more... Result!