Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Thompson Date: 17 Apr 15 - 07:10 PM Shouldn't there be a line in this song that just goes "Urrr, urrr, urrr, urrr"? |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Reb Date: 13 Apr 11 - 04:04 PM I don't remember singing this but as I recall it went: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Guess I'll go eat worms. Big fat juicy one, little bitty skinny ones While they squiggle and squirm. Bite their heads off Suck their guts out Throw the skins away I don't know how birds can eat them Three times a day. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Stringsinger Date: 21 Dec 10 - 03:20 PM I'd worry more about the worms eating you. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,diane dee Date: 21 Dec 10 - 01:02 PM Pretty much how we sang it in Chicago in the Fifties. In the further interests of scholarship... |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: meself Date: 27 Sep 10 - 01:05 PM With some distaste, but in the interest of scholarship ..... I'm surprised not to have seen anything quite like the version that was ('60s-'70s) and perhaps still is well-known among children in Ontario: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Going to the garden to eat worms; Long, thin, slimy ones, Short, fat, greasy ones, Itsy-bitsy, fuzzy-wuzzy worms. The first one was easy, The second one was greasy, The third one got stuck in my throat: (spoken) choke, choke! (To the tune of My Bonny) My stomach is in a commotion, I want to lean over the rail; I don't want to dirty the ocean, So somebody bring me a pail. Come up, come up, Come up my stomach, come up, come up; Come up, come up, Oh, come my stomach, come up. (To the tune of Old Black Joe) I'm coming, I'm coming, For my head is bending low; I can hear those gentle voices calling: (Spoken) Hasten, Jason, bring the basin - Oops! Slop! Bring the mop! Alas, alack, it's all in vain: The dog has licked it up again. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST Date: 27 Sep 10 - 12:22 PM It's one of the few poems I memorized as I kid. Nobody likes me, Everybody hates me, I'm gonna eat some worms Big fat fuzzy ones Long slim slimy ones Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms The long slim slimy ones slip down easy The big fat fuzzy ones stick The big fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth And the juice goes squish squish squish Hope that's the one |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST Date: 29 Aug 09 - 06:18 PM Well The One I Learnt Was: Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me Lets Go And Eat Some Worms Short Fat Juicy Ones Long Thin Slimy Ones Watch How The Little Ones Squirm Rip Their Heads Off (Sllurrppp) All The Juice Out Throw The Empty Skins Away Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me Lets Go And Eat Some Worms Today (Sllurrppp)=Slurping Noise xD |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Jump4Joy Date: 19 Aug 09 - 09:45 AM They Always Pick On Me Music by Harry Von Tilzer Words by Stanley Murphy Published 1911 by Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co. [Verse 1] When I was born my Pa and ma They looked at me and said oh pshaw, The doctor said It's a girl I think And Pa went out and got a drink, Then Ma said I looked just like Pa and Pa said I took after Ma, Aunt Jane said I looked like a quince, And I've been a step child ever since. [Chorus] They always, always pick on me They never, never let me be I'm so very lonesome, awfully sad It's a long time since I've been glad, But,I know what I'll do bye and bye, I'll eat some worms and then I'll die, And when I'm gone you wait and see, They'll all be sorry that they picked on me. [Verse 2] My Ma put me to bed and said The Angels watched me in the bed, They wouldn't let things frighten me, Then the Angels started biting me; When my Ma sends me to the store, I lose the change then she gets sore, I lost my cat and my bow-wow, I think I'm losing something now. [Repeat Chorus] [Verse 3] One morning just at four oclock Somebody tried to pick our lock I knew t'was papa sure as sin And opened the door and let him in, My Ma said what time is it Pa, It's twelve oclock my Pa told Ma, Just then the Cuckoo Cuckooed four and Pa made me Cuckoo eight times more. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Dave Hunt Date: 09 Jun 08 - 08:35 PM The version we recorded (many years ago!) and which I still sing in kids shows is Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I'm going out to eat worms Long thin slimy ones, short fat fuzzy ones Gooey gooey gooey gooey worms Now the long thin slimy ones slip down easily, the short fat fuzzy ones stick And when the short fat fuzzy ones stick in your throat All the juice goes ..sllllurrrpp.... First you bite their heads off, then you suck the juice out Throw the skins away Nobody knows how well I thrive, on worms three times a day Just give me wormssssss Dave Hunt (Dr. Sunshine) www.sunshinearts.co.uk |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:27 PM nobody likes me, everybody hates me i'm gonna eat some worms big fat juicy ones, little slimmy slimy ones hangin on the garden wall first ya bite heads off then ya suck the juice out then ya throw the skins away nobody likes me, everybody hates me i'm gonna eat some worms |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Guest, SatchelKat Date: 29 May 08 - 09:30 PM Today I heard this song from my grandma, she heard it on the radio a long time ago. It had the standard: "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, Guess I'll eat some worms." But the version she heard had this verse: "The first went down easy, The second was squeezy, The third got stuck in my throat! *hack hack hack*". |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Marcella Date: 28 May 08 - 10:00 PM Oh why oh why do they always pick on me Oh why oh why won't they just let me be I'm so lonesome, terribly sad its been a long time since I've been glad But i know what i will do by and by I'll eat some worms and them I'll die and when I'm gone you wait and see they will all be sorry they picked on me |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Fantum Date: 25 Jan 08 - 07:42 AM Title unknown but I always knew it as I'm going down the garden to eat worms Lifted from my message on a previous thread re this topic This is a song I heard 40 years ago and have to sadly say its stuck I really must get a life Never wrote it down or had a recording so it really is just as I remember it Nobody likes me everybody hates me I'm going down the garden to eat worms Long thin slimy ones slip down easily Short fat fuzzy ones stick Short fat fuzzy ones stick in your teeth And the juice goes slurpppppppp Bite of their heads and suck out the juice And throw the skins away nobody knows how I survive On a hundred worms a day Yum yum Right I'm off for lunch The Fantum |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 25 Jan 08 - 07:31 AM Around the time of the First World War there used to be a popular picture (certainly postcard, possibly poster as well) of a little boy sitting on a step looking fed up. The caption was: Nobody loves me. I'm going into the garden to eat worms. Testerday I ate three smooth ones and a hairy one. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,worm eater! Date: 24 Jan 08 - 10:39 AM Mine goes as below... Nobody loves me, Everybody hates me, I think I'll go and eat some worms....Big Fat Gooshy ones....Thin skinny Ooshy ones...Look how they wriggle and squirm....I bite off their heads, spurt out their juice....Throw their skin away...Nobody knows how will I thrive on worms three times a day!! |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,HUIA Date: 08 Mar 07 - 02:37 AM Nobody loves me, everybody hates me. Im going to the garden to eat worms. Long slim Slimey ones, short fat fuzzy ones, Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms. First you bite the head off, then you suk the gutts out, oh how they wiggle and squirm. Long slim slimey ones, short fat fuzzy ones< Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms. Long slim slimey ones slip down easily, Short fat fuzzy ones don't. Short fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth, and the juice goes (slurp) down your throat!!! |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Songster Bob Date: 17 Jan 07 - 02:28 PM I recall Tom Paley singing this, and he had it: Nobody loves me, Everybody hates me, I'm gonna go out and eat worms. Big ones, small ones, Fat ones, squishy ones, I'm gonna go out and eat worms. Bite off their heads, Bite off their tails, Suck all the custard out. He says that picturing worms as "animated eclairs" was a new way to see them. Bob |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Dug2 Date: 16 Jan 07 - 04:00 PM This was the version I learned in the 60s: Nobody likes me everybody hates me I'm going out to eat worms Big fat juicy ones Long thin skinny ones Ones that squiggle and squirm First you bite off the heads Then suck out the blood Then throw their tails away. Nobody knows how much I thrive On one three times a day. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: oggie Date: 15 Jan 07 - 04:07 PM Nobody loves me, everybody hates me Think I'll just go and eat worms Long ones, short ones, Fat ones and skinny ones Think I'll just go and eat worms. First you bite off the heads, Suck out the guts, Throw the skins away. Nobody loves me, everybody hates me Think I'll eat worms all day! Lincolnshire back in the 1960's. Have a vague recollection that it may have been in a Primary School book of rhymes and poems but that may be my memory playing tricks. All the best oggie |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Gizmo Date: 14 Jan 07 - 06:14 PM I have always known the first two lines as "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me I'm going down the garden to eat worms....." Apparently my mum knew this version when she was at school. Momentarily revived when I was at school, but not much further than the above. I'm from London, UK BTW - so don't know if this has any bearing at all. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Version I learned Date: 14 Jan 07 - 06:06 PM My version is still somewhat different then any of those. I forget some words or lines though. I found it once a few years ago, but lost it again and can't find it now. but here goes close as I can get... Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, guess i'll eat some worms fat ones, skinny ones, let the little ones squirm bite their heads off, suck their guts out throw the skins away Nobody loves me, everybody hates me guess ill eat some worms oops, forgot my spoon Seems like there is suppose to be a few more lines before the last one though. just can't remember. ohwell, just thought I'd throw my version on. Hope it helped someone anyway. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,SXC ME Date: 12 Apr 05 - 07:32 PM thanks everyone all of this info really helped so i could vug my friend even more thne before with this song |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST Date: 17 Apr 04 - 10:11 PM http://www.bussongs.com/songs/nobody_likes_me_worms.php Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Guess I'll go eat worms, Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones, Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms. Down goes the first one, down goes the second one, Oh how they wiggle and squirm. Up comes the first one, up comes the second one, Oh how they wiggle and squirm. Just like Gopher Guts, there are many versions of this song. Some of the versions we have heard of are: Alternate Version 1: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms... big fat juicy ones, little slimy skinny ones, hope they don't have germs! Alternate Version 2: Nobody loves me, everybody hates me Think I'll go and eat worms Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones See how they wriggle and squirm I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice And throw the skins away Nobody knows how fat I grow On worms three times a day Ohh...nobody loves me. Alternate Version 3: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, Think I'll go eat worms. Big fat juicy ones, Eensie weensy squeensy ones, See how they wiggle and squirm. Chomp off their heads and squeeze out the juice And throw their tails away Nobody knows how I survive On worms three times a day. Alternate Version 4: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I'm goin' down the garden to eat worms Long thin slimy ones, short fat fuzzy ones Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms Long thin slimy ones slip down easily Short fat fuzzy ones don't Short fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth And the juice goes slurpin' (slurping noise) down your throat |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Les from Hull Date: 27 Apr 03 - 08:40 AM Well the version that I have (learnt in the Boy Scouts, probably from the Girl Guides - I learnt a lot from the Girl Guides!) Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I think I'll go and eat worms Long ones, short ones, fat ones, skiny ones Worms that wriggle and squirm Bite their heads off, suck their guts out Throw their skins away Nobody knows how much I thrive on Worms three times a day Long thin skinny ones slide down easily Short fat furry ones stick Short fat furry ones stick in your gizzard And the blood goes (shlck shlck shick)(shlck = a disgusting slurping noise) |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Cluin Date: 26 Apr 03 - 07:06 PM Nope, not that one either, PG. The second line of the tune I know for it has a melody line very similar to the second line from the theme of the old Dick Van Dyke Show. The rest of the tune isn't like that though, but that's the closest approximation that occurs to me. Obfuscated enough for ya? |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: PoppaGator Date: 25 Apr 03 - 06:11 PM Maybe this version of line 2 scans the way you hear the tune -- per my mother, circa 1955: NObody loves me, everybody hates me I'm goin' out and eat worms Big fat juicy ones, little bitty skinny ones and dirty ones full of germs... |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Cluin Date: 25 Apr 03 - 05:47 PM I think you folks must have a diiferent tune for this one than I remember because "Think I'll go eat worms" or "Guess I'll eat some worms" doesn't scan for the second line of the melody I know for it. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Kim C Date: 25 Apr 03 - 05:40 PM Mister's humorous little dig when we're feeling silly and childish is, "you eat bugs." |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Date: 25 Apr 03 - 05:18 PM Long before I heard the "Nobody loves me..." rhyme, we used to have a record for our wind-up Victrola. One of the early old-timey groups- can't recall which, sang: O they're always, always a-pickin on me, They never, never let me be; I'm so lonely, awful sad- Been a long time since I've been glad. Well I'll tell yi what I'll do by and by, I'll eat some worms and then I'll die- N'when I'm gone I bet they'll be Doggone sorry that they picked on me! (Note-There was another verse or two, and a slightly different refrain): Well I'll tell yi what I'll do, it ain't no joke, I'll eat some worms and then I'll croak- N'when I'm gone,yi know they'll be Doggone sorry that they picked on me! |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: KateG Date: 25 Apr 03 - 09:17 AM The version I learned as a kid: Nobody loves me, everybody hates me Think I'll go eat worms Big ones, little ones, fat ones, skinny ones Think I'll go eat worms First one went down easy Second one was kinda greasy Third one....uurrp Think I'll go eat worms I grew up in London (UK), Kansas and Connecticut (USA) with British and American parents, and I have NO idea where or from whom I learned this song. Most likely on the playground in Connecticut in the early 1960's. |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Apr 03 - 11:30 PM It goes back a ways. My mother used to use a line from the song when I was a kid, something about "I'll go sit in the yard and eat worms." Of course, she may have embellished it for us, since she used only one line. I'd say her source was from back in the 1940's or 50's. SRS |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Cluin Date: 24 Apr 03 - 08:20 PM I remember it as: Nobody loves me, everybody hates me I'm going to the garden to eat some worms Big fat juicy worms Long slim slimy worms Eenie beenie teeny weeny worms |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: GUEST,Krissy Date: 24 Apr 03 - 08:03 PM Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I'll just eat some worms Big, fat juicy one Ity bittie slimy ones Itsy bitsy tinnie winnie worms First you bite the heads off, then you suck the juts out oh how they wiggle and sqirm Big, fat juicy one Ity bittie slimy ones Itsy bitsy tinnie winnie worms Up comes the big ones up comes the tinnie ones oh how they wiggle and sqirm ??? |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Joe Offer Date: 18 May 98 - 10:33 PM gatyam gal, could the black-keys song you're thinking of be "Down at Papa Joe's"? Kicky, keep looking for that tune, if you would. I'm just not satisfied with the one from the Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book, which, by the way, has been renamed Joe's Got a Head Like a Ping-Pong Ball. Maybe THAT's why I don't like the version in that book. -Joe Offer, slightly balding- |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: KickyC Date: 18 May 98 - 10:19 PM I'm pretty sure I have seen this song in the "Wee Sing" books. Probably in the "Wee Sing Silly Songs". I just can't put my hands on that copy right now. It's in one of them though. Kicky |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: alison Date: 18 May 98 - 09:13 PM Hi, I seem to remember the tune being called "In the woods" or "Into the woods", it was all on the black notes and back then was my alternative tune to "Chopsticks." It is pretty like "Think I'll go and eat worms." Here's another verse we used to do with the Brownies. You bite off the heads and suck out the juice, Throw the reast away, Nobody knows how I survive on a hundred worms a day. The long thin slimy ones, slip down easily, The short fat fuzzy ones don't, The short fat fuzzy ones stick in your teeth, And the juice goes (slurping noise) down your throat. Slainte alison |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: gatyam gal Date: 18 May 98 - 08:54 PM This was a piano song that I learned by ear when I was small (early 60's). It used mostly black keys. A few years later my best friend's mother taught us these words to sing along. Maybe it is closer to what others remember.
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
First you bite the heads off
(Spoken like a holler)
Piano notes below Chords are played alternately on right hand in an oom-pah style. There is a similar tune played with only black keys. Does anyone recall the name of it? How about the song when you roll your knuckles across the three black keys? Name? gatyam gal |
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: GUESS I'LL EAT SOME WORMS From: Joe Offer Date: 17 May 98 - 01:30 AM This isn't the way I learned the song, either. The tune isn't quite right, and neither are the words. But it's pretty good. I think I like Alice's version better. Hey, RP, where did you find that MIDI? I'd like to see if it's closer to my version. -Joe Offer-
GUESS I'LL EAT SOME WORMS Click to playABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: eat some worms From: RP Date: 16 May 98 - 09:46 PM Thanks all!!! Still a cloud of mystery about eating worms. I did find a verson of the song (with download midi file) at the museum of science of minnesota (there's a whole thing on WORMS) but no author/composer even though some of the other (yes other) worm songs had all. I must appologize as well to Bob (who has first dibs on using the name Bob on this list). I am officially RP but force of habit led me to err. Thanks again and would still appreciate variations and authors name and composer. RP (aka Bob by error)
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Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Joe Offer Date: 16 May 98 - 09:08 PM Yup. Just as I thought. The version Greenhaus pointed to is apocryphal. If you want the "gospel truth" version, follow the "this and this" links I posted above. Then we have to talk Greenhaus into including the true version in the database.... -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au Date: 16 May 98 - 09:07 PM I have a vague recollection of Jerry Lewis SAYING "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me. I'm going to go eat worms" in one of those Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis films. I don't know if he cribbed it from the song, or if somebody expanded those words into a song (or if I am all wet and he didn't say it.) Murray |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: Joe Offer Date: 16 May 98 - 09:02 PM Hi, Bob - I searched the database under "worms" and didn't find the song, although far be it from me to doubt Dick.... You could do a forum search under "eat some worms," and you'd find this, and, even better, this. ....but now I gotta search the database again and see if Greenhaus is telling the truth..... -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: eat some worms From: dick greenhaus Date: 16 May 98 - 08:54 PM Try a search on worms in the DT database. Or EATWORMS |
Subject: eat some worms From: williams@ntl.sympatico.ca Date: 16 May 98 - 08:44 PM I'm looking for the lyrics to a song that seems to be partially known (along with the tune) by everyone I seem to talk to but nobody seems to know much about it or the exact words. The song or the refrain starts with: Nobody loves me. Everbody hates me. (Think or Guess) I'm gonna eat some worms. Any ideas where and who it comes from and where the lyrics can be found.? Bob |
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