When my youngest daughter was little, she liked to sing. While all my children have musical talent, she is the one who continues to play. She is the most outgoing of my kids and has always been more likely to sing in public. At family gatherings, she would occasionally sing my song Wild Man in the Desert while my son and I would accompany her on guitars. But like most kids, she was more likely to sing children’s songs that she heard on the variety of recordings and videos she watched.
One of the songs she would sing is Bingo. You are probably familiar with this song but here are the lyrics anyway:
“There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o”
Little children aren’t the only ones what get the lyrics to songs wrong. How many of us thought that Creedence Clearwater Revival sang “There’s a bathroom on the right” instead of “There’s a bad moon on the rise”? I know I did. But my daughter sang Bingo this way:
“There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o
B-I-itchy hole
B-I-itchy hole
B-I-itchy hole
And that is what his name is”