Worms
(source: "The Worm Song and Other Tasty Tunes, Janet Wilson, 1993.)

Thanks to Debra Duxfield for sending this song!

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me

I'm going 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 (slurping noise) down your throat

Here's another version of the song, sent in by Kathryn Wells:

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me,

I think I'll go and eat worms,

Short, fat, juicy ones, skinny winny winny ones,

See how they squiggle and squirm.

I bite off their heads and [slurping noise] out the juice

And throw the skins away,

Nobody knows how I survive

On worms three times a day!

Thanks very much to Kate Godwin for this version of the song:

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me

Going down the garden to eat worms

Big ones fat ones skinny ones slimy ones

Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yum!

Uup come the first one, uup comes the second one

Uuuuup comes the third little worm

Big ones fat ones, skinny ones, slimy ones

Yukky, yukky,yukky, yukky, yuk!

Here's yet another version of the song, sent to me by M. Park.

Everybody hates me!

Nobody likes (loves) me,

I'm going outside to eat some worms.

Chorus (Repeat after each verse):

Long, slim slimy ones,

Short, fat juicy ones,

Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy, wuzzy worms.

First you get a bucket,

Then you get a shovel,

Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

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.

Everybody likes me,

Nobody hates me!

Why did I eat those worms?

First you bite the heads off,

Then you suck the guts out.

Then throw the rest away.

Nobody knows how I survive

On worms three times a day!