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Thread #79504 Message #1452513
Posted By: Azizi
05-Apr-05 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Don't Touch the Bumble Bee
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Don't Touch the Bumble Bee
Last night after reading Q's post, I was trying to remember the words to a children's song called "I Caught Me A Baby Bumblebee". However, I couldn't remember anything after the first verse. And this morning I visited a website called Wheee! Blog, and what do I find but this song.
Wheee! Blog is a website that has a thread on schoolyard rhymes that was started in November 2002. Posters are still adding to this thread. Most of those posters seem to be teenagers, or young adults.
Here's the "Baby Bumblebee" example that was posted by amber at April 2, 2005 03:55 PM:
"I remember one that my cousin taught me when we were around 7, I turn 18 in a week. We live in western NY. Well one was,
I wish i had a baby bummble bee, wont my mommy be so proud of me oh I wish i had a bummble bee, OUCH he stung me,
im smooshing up the baby bummble bee wont my mommy be so proud of me,eww its yucky
im licking up the baby bumble bee wont my mommy be so proud of me im smooshing up the baby bumble bee ewwim sick
im puking up the baby bumle bee wont my mommy be so proud of my im puking up the baby bumble bee oh my goodness
im mopping up the baby bummble bee wont my mommy be so proud of me im mopping up the baby bumble bee, i cant believe i just cleaned. (with this one you do hand motions to go with the actions )"
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[A representative of that blog's members gave me permission to copy entries from that thread].
The first verse that I remember my daughter singing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early 1980s was
I caught me a baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be very proud of me
I caught me a baby bumblebee,
Ooh! It stung me!
Then the next verse was "I'm squishing a baby bumblebee" instead of Amber's "smooshing"...And I think that my daughter did said "Ooh yucky!"..For the eating verse, I seem to recall the words "Mmmm good!"
{or something like that}, and I think that my daughter ended the rhyme there. Of course motions were made to match the words.
Click here to visit Wheee! Blog's thread on schoolyard rhymes:
Wheee! Blog
Azizi