Songs about Insects
I know the card says "songs about insects," but we should go with songs that name insects, too. And as it's a singing game and not a biology test, I'm not deleting spiders. I wouldn't even delete a worm. Microscopic bugs are Right In, because I don't care. I wish the card had said "bugs." Stupid card. No racoons or dogs, no matter how much they bug you. But if the mammal has a tick or a flea, he's in!!
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Oh, there ain't no bugs on me. Oh, there ain't no bugs on me. There may be bugs on some of you mugs but there ain't no bugs on me.
Lately I've been hearing his one as a TV jingle for some sort of anti flea and tic product.
Jen H.
Who watched him die
Who watched him die
I, said the fly with my [some kind of] eye
'Twas I watched him die...
("Who Killed Cock Robin," kinda depressing very old ballad. I know it wasn't "bionic eye" and maybe it was "with my own little eye" or "my ugly fly-eye," I don't know.)
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly
Perhaps she'll die
There Was an Old Lady - trad. kid's song
She wears a G for grubby finger nails
She wears and I for insects too
She wears and R for rolling sleeping bags
She wears and L for leaky tents
She wears and S for scrubbing pots and pans
She wears a C for cleaning too
She wears and OUT for outdoor girl, outdoor girl, and that's the kind of girl I wanna be, GIRL SCOUT
shoo fly don't bother me,
shoo fly don't bother me,
shoo fly don't bother me,
for I belong to somebody..
I think we sang this in Camp Fire? maybe?
The ants go marching one by one,
hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching one by one,
hurrah, hurrah!
The ants go marching one by one,
the little one stopped to suck his thumb
The ants go marching all around the town.
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 don't.
short fat fuzzy ones
stick to yer teeth,
and the juice goes *slurrrrrp sllluuuurrrp* (make the sound, don't sing the words lol)
down your throat!!!!!!!!!
when i was a kid (lol) my cousins and i used to sing this over and over: our parents liked it the *first* time.....
She's as sweet as Tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as Tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
"Tupelo Honey," by Van Morrison
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
(Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi")
Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees
And the flowers and the trees
And the moon up above
And a thing called love
The Birds and the Bees (?)
I like your sister
I like your aunt Louise
I like your doggie
I even like his fleas.
(From a Cartoon Planet thing Marty used to sing, lots, years ago.)
I'm sweeping up the baby bumble bee, won't my mommy be so proud of me.
A gross song I learned as a child.
Jen H.
Spider-man, Spider-man
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web, any size
Catches thieves just like flies
Spider-man
I'm a pretty little butterfly
I can't scream
And I can't cry...
From a group called Annie and the Natural Wonderband (they're local to the Hudson Valley, NY region, although they travel all over the place; they're really sweet folks!)
One little speckled frog,
sitting on a hollow log
eating the most delicious bugs(yum, yum!)
He jumped into the pool
where it was nice and cool
then there were no speckled frogs.
(It's a counting down song...I think we usually started with 10)
***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 don't.***
I'm going to have to show this one to my kids when they get home! They'll LOVE it! lol
Spider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider ......
From the Simpson's Movie promo.
Jen H.
But everyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant.
"High Hopes"
And add a cricket just for luck
and even you can't blow it
Disney - Mulan
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Circle Game
Joni Mitchell
So help me if you can I've got to get
Back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done
Count all the bees in the hive
Chase all the clouds from the sky
The House at Pooh Corner
Loggins and Messina
i saw the bombers
riding shotgun in the sky
they were turning in to butterflies
woodstock...joni mitchell
eight thimble sized cylinders to be as smooth as you please
spiders badass fat old abdomen stuck in the buggy seat
dune buggy...presidents of the united states of america
Crickets call
Courting their ladies in star-dappled green
"Don't Know Where I Stand," Joni Mitchell
You oughta see my Cindy
She lives a-way down south
She's so sweet the honeybees
Swarm around her mouth
("Cindy," traditional old-timey dance tune)
But one day he went to that science lab
That mutated spider came down
And now Peter crawls over everyone's walls
And he's [something] all over town
(Weird Al's Spiderman parody of Billy Joel's "Pianoman")
And the ground gave way beneath my feet
And the earth took me in her arms
Leaves covered my face
Ants marched across my back
Black sky opened up, blinding me
"MerGirl" Madonna
Old tin roof, leaves in the gutter
A hole in the screen door big as your fist, and flies on the butter....
Yellow jackets on the watermelon, honeysuckle in the air...
Me and my best friend Jenny set up a back yard camp
Stole one of Mama's Mason jars, poked holes in the lid and made a fire fly lamp
"Flies (on the Butter) Wynonna
Fly in the buttermilk,
Shoo-fly, shoo...
Skip to m'lou my darlin'
("Skip to My Lou," another old-timey dance song)
There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzing
And I ain't done nothing
Since I woke up today
Angel from Montgomery
John Prine
Who's gonna save us when them spiders get next 2 U,
Spinning their sticky webs around what U do
-Prince (The Word)
While the honeybee hums
And the cricket fiddles
"A Place in the Choir," by Bill Staines (and it's eight words, too)
if the spiderman song counts, i think the simpsons version should!
spiderpig, spiderpig
does whatever a spiderpig does
-homer simpson in the preview for the simpsons movie [i can't wait!]
p.s. i understand it's one word short, but... that's the whole song, you see. :]
sandra sang: I like your sister
I like your aunt Louise
I like your doggie
I even like his fleas.
oooo you've jogged my memory:
my doggie has fleas,
fleas fleas,
fleas fleas...
EIGHT WORDS WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!
that's one of those *tuning the guitar* songs from my childhood....
I've got so much honey
The bees envy me.
~My Girl
The Temptations
Maybe we're all insects
Do you like bugs and bees?
Maybe we're giant fleas!
(Animaniacs, when the doctor is asking them what they are, dogs or what, and they go through lots of possibilities in a song, with the animation changing to match them as it goes)
With a burnin' love
that stings like a bee
The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go"
I'm watchin' a cockroach crawlin'
In an old bean can
Says when your baby's left you
I bet it's hard to be a man
Jesse Colin Young, Four in the Morning
(heard it on the radio)
And butterflies are free to fly, fly away. High away. Bye-bye. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" from Elton John
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