So checking out the Mental Floss blog they had a recent post about second verses to famous songs you sung as a child.
Everyone remembers:
My Bonnie lies over the ocean,
my Bonnie lies over the sea,
My Bonnie lies over the ocean,
O bring back my Bonnie to me.Chorus:
Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me, to me:
Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me.
Well that ain’t all. According to the post the second verse (actually it is the third) goes:
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
Last night as I lay on my bed,
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
I dreamed that my Bonnie was dead.
OK…does he wish her dead or just assumed she was dead? So further investigation I come across a site called ScoutSongs.com and lucky for you and me they had the whole song. The further you go the creepier it gets. I will now have nightmares.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean,
my Bonnie lies over the sea,
My Bonnie lies over the ocean,
O bring back my Bonnie to me.Chorus:
Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me, to me:
Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me.O blow ye winds over the ocean,
O blow ye winds over the sea.
O blow ye winds over the ocean,
And bring back my Bonnie to me.Repeat chorus
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
Last night as I lay on my bed,
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
I dreamed that my Bonnie was dead.Repeat chorus
The winds have blown over the ocean,
The winds have blown over the sea,
The winds have blown over the ocean,
And brought back my Bonnie to me.Repeat chorus
My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank,
The height of its contents to see,
I lit a small match to assist her,
O Bring back my Bonnie to me.Repeat chorus
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
Last night as I lay on my bed,
I stuck my feet out of the window,
In the morning the neighbors were dead.Repeat chorus
My mother makes beer in the bathtub,
My father makes synthetic gin,
My sister makes fudge for a quarter,
Wouldja believe how the money rolls in?Repeat chorus
My mother, she drowned in the bathtub,
My father, he died from his gin,
My sister choked on her chocolate,
My stars, what a fix I am in.Repeat chorus
I tried making beer in the bathtub,
I tried making synthetic gin,
I tried making fudge for a living,
Now look at the shape that I’m in.
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50 responses to “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean…”
Man, that IS bizarre! O.O
Reminds me of “three more days till Halloween Halloween Halloween. 3 more days till Halloween…silver shamrock’
I think the source title tells it all!
Which one…mental floss or scoutsongs? haha
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Didn’t their momma tech them how to sing in tune??
NO!
It was the worst rendition I could find. Can I use this word in that context?
I never did like Bonnie.
So you are of the camp that wished her dead?
My Bonnie lies under the ocean;
My Bonnie lies under the sea;
My Bonnie lies under the ocean;
I didn’t do it; nobody saw me do it!
So why are you so wet??
Uhhh, wet t-shirt contest . . . ya, that’s it. I was in a wet t-shirt contest. My moobs came in first place.
Too bad your merkin lost.
“Why are you so wet” baby?
Is that your shutter Island reference bearman? I saw the movie yesterday!
and…..
no wonder they never mentioned the name of the person singing!
Maybe it was Clyde?
OMG.. I’m traumatized!
I bet Ring around the Rosey is the story of a hanging.
Ring Around the Rosey is about the Black Plague
But what is the ring??
If I recall correctly it refers to a circualr red skin rash that was one of the very first signs of plague in a soontobedead victiom!
Good to know.
All the hidden messages in children songs (and shows) amazes me I never caught on when I was younger
Kind of like watching cartoons when you didn’t get half the stuff.
Cool. I’m going to print this and take it to the next scout meeting. Maybe I can get them to sing it.
Their parents will hate me.
🙂
Its a scout song so I don’t see the problem.
haha…love your line of thinking writedood
Hmm, he’s pretty much over Bonnie by the end of the song. I’m surprised Geraldo hasn’t done a story on Bonnie and who killed her!
After Capone’s Vaults he wasn’t taking a risk.
Why was everything so creepy when we were kids, and why did we not realize it?
Reminds me of “Ring Around the Rosie,” which the girls sang every recess period on the playground, which is actually a chant about the Black Death. Morbid.
Oh..see I had it wrong above. Thanks for correcting me. Why was their a ring around her?
Yep Dave had it right above.
That is creepy. Reminds me of the fact that almost no one knows that the theme song to M*A*S*H is named “Suicide is Painless.”
I knew that but I couldn’t tell you any other words in that song.
I could hum it !
I could hum that tune in 3 notes.
That kinda’ takes the fun out of my homemade hooch production 🙂
Only if you let your parents in on the business.
So far the whole operation is top secret – speakeasy style.
Unless you have the password.
Or you’re conducting a raid. 🙂
A lot of those old nursery rhymes and kids songs get pretty weird. I’ll probably have nightmares tonight about birds in a pie and spiders and curds and whey(whatever that is).
I’d like to know what a Tuffet is.
butt?
I’ll take that.
Woah, woah, woah. That creeps me out a little bit more than the origin/meaning behind Little Red Riding Hood.
Which was? Don’t make me look it up.
My friend told me that he read it in a book containing the origins and/or meanings behind popular fairy tales and some of the stories used by Disney (eg. Aladdin). I couldn’t remember it exactly, but I found it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood#Interpretations . Scroll down to ‘Sexual awakening’. My friend says that’s what his book says is the meaning behind Little Red Riding Hood, though, now I don’t know since someone wrote on Wikipedia that it’s only an interpretation. :S
Ok…that was a stretch..haha
someone’s been doing some serious research!!
Even when I was a kid I didn’t like that song, it’s just a kinda sucky tune