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From: rodean@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: The words to a children's song
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 23:48:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 23:48:00 1986
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> I am interested in the words to a song that my brothers and sisters
> sang as children.  I thought my son would like it too.  The
> only part I can remember though, goes

> "Swim", says the mama fishie,
> "Swim, if you can",
> And they swam, and they swam
> right over the dam.

> Thank you so much.  It has my driving me and my sister nuts not being
> able to remember.

I recall it as going:

	Down at the bottom of an itty-bitty pool,
	Swam three little fishies
	And the mama fishie too.
	"Swim", said the mama fishie,
	"Swim, if you can",
	And they swam, and they swam
	right over the dam.

Then this phonetic gibberish followed (sung very fast), but I'm afraid
it loses something in the translation:

	Itten bitten diddely witten
	Esko beeten yoten boten
	Bobo ska deetent dotten
	Wah dah a choo HAY!

Bruce Rodean
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