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

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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?

The paratrooper song is way more graphic and gruesome than the boyscout version. Probably not suitable for a toddler group, even the one that ZoomZoom and I seem to be visualising.

The song that plays when you press the button on the fisher price 'animal train'. That's the epitome of irritating.

I also get a bit concerned about characters in children's songs. Surely the worm called wiggly woo will develop low self esteem if he told that all he can do is 'wiggle all day and night'?

My 4 year old has been corrupted by Brownies and now favours "I found a little baby bumble bee, won't my mummy be so proud of me..."
I'm not sure why "Oh Tom the Toad, oh Tom the Toad, why are you lying on the road has been banned for being grim when we still merrily sing "Found a peanut, found a peanut... "

My 1 year old has reached saturation point on his bobbins now.

Actually DD sings a really gross one that she learned at nursery, which I had never heard before, I've googled it:

I'm bringing home my baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me
I'm bringing home my baby bumble bee -
OUCH!! It stung me!!

I'm squishin' up my baby bumble bee

I'm lickin' up my baby bumble bee

I'm throwin' up my baby bumble bee

I'm wipin' up my baby bumble bee...

Oh bumble bee x post!

It was John Brown's Body before it became The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

We used to sing a parody of the lyrics to the latter. Instead of "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," we would sing,

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school,
we have broken every window, we have broken every rule.

And the refrain was "Glory, glory, hallelujah, Teacher hit me with a ruler."

I know that one!

Glory, glory, hallelujah
Teacher hit me with a ruler
I hid behind the door with a loaded .44
And Teacher taught no more.

In the same vein:
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to school we go
With hand grenades and razor blades
Hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho!

I came online because I couldn't sleep due to bloody Sleeping Bunnies eroding my brain. The addition of bobbins will not help, mark my words.

We definitely used to sing a less military-sounding version of "My eyes have seen the glory of our saviour Christ The Lord...", usually as an Easter hymn.

My favourite is 'twinkle twinkle little star' though. Especially with the later verses.

(And this has just brought back wonderful memories of explaining the Hokey Cokey and musical bumps to a group of foreign students. I think they thought our birthday parties sounded very strange .)

This is not good - reading about hopping bunnies and bobbins and the like - I'm going to bed now and I just KNOW I will lie awake all night with these going round and round (and round and round) my brain.

AAArghhh!!!!

Still, could be worse, it could have been cauliflowers fluffy...

YANBU.

I am now whistling it and it's doing my nut in.

Yanbu!! Can't stand wind the bobbin up! Do like some of the other though!
I once went on a work trip to Bangladesh to see their education system and every school we went in tried to impress us with very diligent pupils doing very serious readings in their best English - sadly they were all reading from books of nursery rhymes so it was lots of earnest renditions of twinkle twinkle little star!! Then we were sung to at a whole school assembly "heads shoulder knees and toes" the song ground to a halt though as all the kids stopped singing to stare at the nutty foreigners who were touching their heads, shoulder knees and toes....

My Rainbows favourite song is:
Down in the jungle where nobody goes
There's a big fat gorilla, picking his nose
And he picks it and he flicks it, where does it go
Who's gonna get that, who's gonna get that, who's gonna get that slimy snot?!

Small children are delightful!

can I raise you...

Do your ears hang low?
can you swing them to and fro?
can you tie them in a knot?
can you tie them in a bow?
can you throw them over your shoulder like a regimental soldier?
do your ears hang low?

x a million daily.....

Name change check

Wind the Bobbin Up was my very least favourite song at the otherwise lovely sing song session we used to go to

I think I might be able to win this thread. I've been with a well-known preschool music franchise for 12 years. By my reckoning, 12 years x 36 weeks term time x average 12 sessions a week plus parties, summer sessions etc = 5,500 renditions of sleeping bunnies.

Approximately.

I had never ever heard wind the bobbin up until I had DS. Now it is everywhere.

I sing it to him when getting him dressed after his bath as its the only thing that stops him screaming his head off.

Preschool, I hope you weren't our Jo Jingles teacher and had to put up with me sniggering inappropriately every time!

Froggy, I was reading through this thread thinking of that song! My DDs (now in their 20s) used to love it - but to me it was always a rugby song with - ahem - slightly different words.

I never sang wind the bobbin up as a child, and only now with dc learnt of it's existence.

So answer me thins, why mid winding do you point to the floor and ceiling? Don't you drop the fecking bobbin?

froggy we used to sing a rude version of that song. We didn't sing about ears!

I now have secondary age children and each and every one of these songs is bathed in a nostalgic glow except for Little Rabbit Foo Foo which a) leads to violence and b) winds me up because I think of Michael Bloody Rosen raking in the royalties for a book he didn't write (see also: Going on a Bear Hunt).

There was a video segment in (I think) Teletubbies which shows groups of toddlers and adults doing increasingly fast renditions of Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes. I defy even the most vehement nursery rhyme hater to resist the charms of adorably confused two year olds and burly firemen losing track of what part of their body their shoulders are. I'll see if I can find a link.

A teacher I job share with sings something called "Bodily Archer", it's bloody awful.