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The Kiboomers

Baby Bumblebee

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
(Cup hands together as if holding bee)

I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee,
Ouch! It stung me!
(Shake hands as if just stung)

I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
('Squish' bee between palms of hands)

I'm squishing up a baby bumblebee,
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Ooh! It's yucky!
(Open up hands to look at 'mess')

I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
(Wipe hands off on shirt)

I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee,
Now my mommy won't be mad at me!
(Hold hands up)

IANBU this is surely not an example to set to children to whom do I address my complaint?

Cross posted with Francis ooops!

i couldn't give a monkeys about canoes or kayaks or 10 ft willies or fictional egg men. a lot of people really think goon around squishing insects is absolutely nothing

It's a silly song. Seriously catch a grip.

It's a song that has been around for years and years.

A lot of people aren't mass murdering insects just because they have heard it.

So where did you come across this song then?

@SunnyL I forgot about that song!!

And yes, total rite of passage, the stupid songs at Brownies, Guides, Cubs, Scouts etc. None of us squished bumblebees.

Massive overreaction.

All Brownie songs are highly dodgy. "When Suzy was a baby", "Two little angels", "Milk milk lemonade" etc.

We sang the baby bumblebee song in the early 80s, I'm sure kids today have heard far worse.

Aren't some bumble bees endangered now?

Maybe we could change the lyrics to make it about a horse?

I'm taking home my foal
Won't my Mother be surprised at me
I'm taking home my foal
Ow! Ee! Foal stung me

I'm squashing up my foal
etc

I LOVE Cecil is a caterpillar! I've been doing Brownies for a few years and only heard it for the first time recently. Something about the way the other leader went Oh Cecil what HAVE you been doing? And then the ending cracked me up (I was expecting it to be that he had turned into a butterfly)

goose1964 of course bumblebees sting, well the workers and queen bees do. However drones (male bees) don't have stings.

I also used to sing this in brownies but the lick then sick up version. We also used to sing 'spastic Susie' which concerns me a hell of a lot more than this!

Get a grip OP.
Just wait until they grow up and move onto Horrible Histories.

The Kiboomers rule, btw. They do a killer rendition of Zoom Zoom Zoom We're Going to the Moon (for all the non-h8ers).

Thank goodness my kids went to Woodcraft < paramilitary wing of the co op > and not bee torturing Brownies.

I want a life where a child's song is all I have to moan about

I loved that song in brownies. I saw it sang on Keeping up with the Kardashians once ---> useless bit of info for you there, Khloe Kardashian knows it too

Maras it's woodies where we sing the bee torture song

Yeah in the version I know (remember) we had the sick and licking up.
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Talk about things that were acceptable way back then. 20+ years ago at scouts/cubs (or some other club i was apart off) we used to sing a song about Hitler and him only having one ball hahaha

There's a second verse to "Worms"

The long thing squooshy ones
Slide down easily
The short fat juicy ones stick
Nobody knows how I survive
I think I'm going to be sick (gagging noises)

Fuck me, you're actually serious aren't you? Having a meltdown about a kids song?
Seriously; get a grip.

Love these. I'd forgotten about the worms one and the flicking bogies at the sun.

As other people have said, aren't you meant to throw up the bumble bee as punishment for eating it in the first place?

Though it makes you wonder who decided to write these songs for kids.

Anyone for outraging public decency at the cinema?

Skinny Malinky long legs big banana feet,
went to the pictures and couldnae find a seat
when the picture started,
Skinny Malinky farted
Skinny Malinky long legs, big banana feet

I sang it at cubs. I can happily report i have never knowingly killed a bee. Or licked it up, or sicked it up...

For some reason it's okay, but if we changed the words to

I'm bashing up the little puppy,
Won't my mommy be so proud of me,
('bashes puppy in the head)

people would be outraged.

Yeah, but you could make any song offensive by changing the words...

Then again, I do regularly change the words in nursery rhymes with my kids

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught a fish alive,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, then I let it go again.
Why did you let it go?
Because I'm kind and I like fish!

What about the poor man who jumped without a parachute and was a blob of jam?!

He ain't gonna jump no more