I hate to be nit-picking but... (nit-picking songs

Subject: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: sophocleese
Date: 28 May 00 - 02:24 PM

it would probably go a lot easier if there were any good songs to sing as I do it, my five year old has a head full. There are all sorts of songs that help when people are sailing, weaving, plowing etc. Does anybody know any good nit picking songs? Things that help ease the irritated parent and tame the wriggles of the uncomfortable and bored child.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: TerriM
Date: 28 May 00 - 02:33 PM

most shampoos should save you the aggravation of actually having to scoop out the little sods.We once had them spread through everyone in the house , mass hair-washing all round.How about a variation on theres a hole in my bucket?
There are lice on my cranium
Dear So comb them, dear etc.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: sophocleese
Date: 28 May 00 - 02:43 PM

TerriM while I love the suggestion of using There's a Hole in my Bucket I am a little worried that, it being a circular song, I might NEVER get rid of the beasties.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 May 00 - 03:19 PM

can't think of a song but you could quote Burns' To A Louse.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 May 00 - 03:21 PM

or click here for THE TAILOR AND THE LOUSE.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 May 00 - 03:24 PM

Oh, what a pain! I'm sure there must be a way to adapt any number of sea shantys. Or there's "Pick-a-little, Talk-a-little," from the Music Man. I remember about seven years ago having two kids with nits- and in the midst of the process I had to have an emergency appendectomy (No, I don't think it was related to the nits!) and came home from the hospital with a head full of my own! Yuck!

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Amergin
Date: 28 May 00 - 04:01 PM

How about:

Jump down turn around pick a little lice egg
Jump down turn around pick a nit a day
Oh Lordy pick a little lice egg
Oh Lordy pick a nit a day

Well you get the picture. God I remember those days well. Get's my hair itching just thinking about it.

Amergin

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Bill D
Date: 28 May 00 - 04:23 PM

THERE AIN'T NO BUGS ON ME

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: TheOldMole
Date: 28 May 00 - 04:31 PM

I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say You're dirty, you're lousy, take it away....

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Banjer
Date: 28 May 00 - 10:45 PM

I've heard about nit pickin', had to do some of it when my younguns was goin' to school...But try as I might I never found a nit I could pick....never found one with strings long enough to make a sound....What key would you tune them in to pick them and what would they sound like??? Inquiring minds wanna know!!

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: moocow
Date: 29 May 00 - 08:58 AM

actually i think nitpicking is just some sort of misconception swimming round in traditional circles.I've scrutinized them closely and could not discover one pickable appendage(that would not fall off after one pick).As for any sound occuring you'd do better with a well tuned egg slicer(ive tried it).

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: sian, west wales
Date: 29 May 00 - 01:11 PM

In actual fact, there IS a Welsh song about a louse. Sort of a leg-pulling tall-tale song …

On my way to London I met a wee tailor. I looked up and on his sleeve I saw a louse.

I took out my pistol, I shot the louse right through the forehead, and the noise when it hit the ground was like a cannon shot.

I took out my knife and it took me three days to skin it – from the rising sun to the night stars – until I got to the tip of its tale.

A wagon happned along, I threw the carcass on it and took it away to London – I got 20 guinees for it.

The people there were so pleased to see such rich meat that they asked all over where such an animal was reared.

… and you think YOU have problems. Poor nit –nurses in Wales!

Another louse story... one of the big chain-store supermarkets here in town is trying its best to be bilingual, putting up signs both in English and Welsh. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have occurred to them that they should *pay* to get things translated properly. So the 10 items or Less check-outs have signs which read 10 Eitem neu Llau instead of 10 Eitem neu Lleu. The second one is correct. The first one reads, 10 Items or Lice.

Ya gotta laugh, really.

Sian

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 May 00 - 01:28 PM

Foster parents have to have a sense of humor on a lot of subjects and lice is one. Karen and I were at a training session which was about dealing with foster kids after parental visits. These visits sre often traumatic in various ways and affect kids in different ways. The trainer asked, "When your kids come home from a visitation, what things bother them? What do they bring back from each visit?".......A tired voice piped up, "Lice." Cracked the whole place up.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 May 00 - 04:17 PM

I think it was Bobbie Burns who wrote an ode called "To a Louse", or maybe "To a Louse in My Lady's Hair."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: paddymac
Date: 30 May 00 - 10:02 AM

When I was a kid, we called them "cooties". I looked under that name in the DT and found a song called "Army Bugs", sung to the melody of "Sweet Bye & Bye". There's only one verse given, so you might want to come up with others. But that creative process could make the whole thing more interesting to the kids involved - just think, a chance to write your very own "cooties song". I recall a Japanese expression for the wee critters, that included both varieties. Please forgive the spelling, but I think it was "chisai tomodachi", or "little friends".

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 30 May 00 - 12:21 PM

Anyone remember the children's story about There's a Mouse in the House, said the Louse: Not A Word? That is all I can remember from it...

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 May 00 - 12:27 PM

Then there's
Queen, Queen Caroline
Washed her hair with turpentine
Turpentine made it shine
Lucky lucky Caroline

I teach it to the kidz at school when there's a lousy breakout. Turpentine used to be used to kill the little buggers!

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Amergin
Date: 30 May 00 - 01:11 PM

When I was going to school, it was supposed to be confidential as to who has lice or not. I remember one year I got sent home because of it and damn teacher (found out later) told everyone in the class that I had it. Thank god, a few weeks later we moved to another town.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: Hollowfox
Date: 30 May 00 - 05:28 PM

It's not musical, but one of those novelty "egg timers" from Spencer's (mall-type gift/novelty/head shop) help to pass the waiting period with the shampoo. You'll know what I mean when you see them (the timers, I mean); instead of sand, they're filled with fluids of different colors that don't mix. Some have a ramp for the little beads of (whatever it is) to run down, some have little "water wheels", some have two different colors, one flowing up and one flowing down. We've had two bouts with the creatures over the years, and I was in no mood to sing either time. BTW, I don't have the faith TerriM has in shampoo alone; I'd comb thoroughly, just to be sure. No turpentine, though, I'm not that old-fashioned.

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 31 May 00 - 04:37 AM

I remember coming home from school and saying to my mother that little Johnny who sat in front of me had "greenfly" crawling in his hair. Out came the steel comb! Ouch! I can still feel it, 50 years on! Me and my big mouth.The kids I felt really sorry for were the ones who had ?ringworm? whose heads were shaved and some purple gunge painted on (permanganate of potash?).
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: I hate to be nit-picking but...
From: GUEST,Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 May 00 - 01:54 PM

Euugh!

How about something to the tune of Bare Footin' on the lines of Nit pickin'

Itchy Coo head?

Nit picking away, nit picking awayay,
You know the longer they are at playschool,
The more you're nit picking away...... (sorry Paul Simon....)

Oh Susannah, Oh put that comb away,
Your brother has the cooties,
So we shave your head today!

Sorry...

So far not been bothered by them, can only be a matter of time. For those who prefer a more 'herbal' remedy, tea tree oil on the comb helps.

LTS