Anecdote and poll!

[conuly]

Today, Ana was sitting in my lap with the baby. (And hugging the baby too tightly, then declaring "MY BABY!" when I forced her to stop, but that's another story.) She requested that I sing "The Wheels on the Bus" (or, as she calls it, "wown an wown"), so I start to sing, only to be stopped. No, she wants me to go directly to the part where the babies on the bus go waa waa waa. So I do... and she leans over to her sister and goes "Eva! Say 'waa waa waa'!" Not very cute, but it got me thinking....

This song has a lot of potential verses. I know we used to drag it out forever in kindegarten if we could (though it was far from our favorite - that was a version of this song. "I went to the city, I went to the fair, to see a senorita, with flowers in her hair (dancing vaguely in the middle of a circle). Oh, shake it shake it shake it, shake it all you can, shake it like a milkshake, and do the best you can (shaking?). Rumble to the bottom (stoop), rumble to the top (stand and stretch), turn around and turn around until you make a stop (spin wildly) S. T. O. P spelllllls STOP! (turn slowly, eyes closed, pointing, and whoever's pointed at at stop goes in the middle and you go out.) But I digress.)

Recently, I've heard all new (to me) verses to that song! It's amazing. And yet, not wholly unpredictable. So, just a quick poll...

[Poll #654526]

Thanks for playing!

Comments

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Daddies said something, but I forget what. "Sit on down," I think.

No idea what you mean about the "a animal/some animals" thing. Old McDonald had a farm (EIEIO) and on that farm he had a cow (EIEIO), with a moo, moo here and a moo, moo there ... the word "animal" doesn't figure into it.

Can't remember who had the baby called Tiny Tim. Miss Lucy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell. (Miss Lucy went to Heaven and the steamboat went to—hello Operator, please give me number five...) Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack all dressed in black, black, black. Nope, neither of those.

Miss Sue, Miss Sue, Miss Sue from Alabama, her name is Susy-anna ... I think that's the Tiny Tim one, isn't it?

[conuly]

1. Okay.

2. Well, did he have *a* cow, or did he have *some* cows?

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I think he had a cow, but some pigs; a horse, but some chickens ... not sure. I'll go edit my answer now that I understand the question though!

[conuly]

I hadn't been sure of a good way to put the question, is the problem.