GreenKnight23@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agoThere was a farmer, who had a dog.message-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareThere was a farmer, who had a dog.GreenKnight23@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square16linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAmazingSUPERG@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 day agoI learned the song as “Farmer Brown he had a dog and Bingo was his name-o” so I never had to wrestle with this conundrum.
minus-squarelonefighter@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 day agoI learned it as"Old McDonald had a dog and Bingo was his name-o" and now I’m curious about where and how the differences in the song came from
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day ago Old McDonald had a farm, e-i e-i o. And on that farm was a cow, e-i e-i o. With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there… That’s the Old McDonald that I grew up with.
minus-squarelonefighter@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoI knew it as both. He had a farm and a dog. Little kid me always imagined Bingo living on the farm herding sheep
minus-squaredohpaz42@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoI’ve never heard that connection before, but it does make sense since McDonald is a farmer, and every farmer I’ve ever met has a dog.
minus-squaresnoons@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoFrederic “Bingo” Brown, b. 1923 d. 2002, was a farmer in Northern Tennessee and astute dog lover.
I learned the song as “Farmer Brown he had a dog and Bingo was his name-o” so I never had to wrestle with this conundrum.
I learned it as"Old McDonald had a dog and Bingo was his name-o" and now I’m curious about where and how the differences in the song came from
That’s the Old McDonald that I grew up with.
I knew it as both. He had a farm and a dog. Little kid me always imagined Bingo living on the farm herding sheep
I’ve never heard that connection before, but it does make sense since McDonald is a farmer, and every farmer I’ve ever met has a dog.
Bingo Brown?
Darn it!!!
Frederic “Bingo” Brown, b. 1923 d. 2002, was a farmer in Northern Tennessee and astute dog lover.