1 2 3, 4 5 6, 7 8 9, 10 11 12, Ladybugs came to the Ladybug’s Picnic…wah wah wah
I first saw this on Sesame Street in the 70s. I would find it coming back to me years later.
Sometimes when I play music with the guys…I’ll suddenly break out in this song in the middle of learning something else…just have some fun. It’s one that is hard to get out of your head. I get things thrown at me but I love it.
Jim Kweskin sang the original 1971 version and it was written by Bud Luckey and Donald Hadley
Thanks to nostalgicitalian for bringing this up…
Ladybugs Picnic
One two three
Four five six
Seven eight nine
Ten eleven twelve
Ladybugs
Came to the ladybugs’ picnic
One two three
Four five six
Seven eight nine
Ten eleven twelve
And they all played games
At the ladybugs’ picnic
They had twelve sacks so they ran sack races
And they fell on their backs and they fell on their faces
The ladybugs 12
At the ladybugs’ picnic
They played jump rope but the rope it broke
So they just sat around telling knock-knock jokes
The ladybugs 12
At the ladybugs’ picnic
One two three
Four five six
Seven eight nine
Ten eleven twelve
And they chatted away
At the ladybugs’ picnic
They talked about the high price of furniture and rugs
And fire insurance for ladybugs
The ladybugs 12
At the ladybugs’ picnic
12!
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Kids learned so much by watching Sesame Street, and it was fun to listen to the songs as they did. This is a earworm — or is that ear ladybug?
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Yep! In honor of the ladybugs…an ear ladybug
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One of my favorites from “the Street”! I used to love when they would play it on occasion when my sons were growing up!
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I love it …. I also like breaking out with it on guitar at anytime lol
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I know they have some of the old Sesame Street stuff out on DVD now ….I am thinking about picking it up….I want to have that stuff for when my daughter grows up
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That is a great idea…I can’t help but love the stuff we grew up with…no offense to what it is now.
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I’ll have to burn those Sesame Street discs I have for you and send them. So many great cuts!!
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That would be great man….I love that vintage stuff
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I will try to knock it out over the weekend.
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Whatever shipping is I’ll pay for it… but if you rip them to files I can just give you a dropbox to put it on
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Sounds good! I think I still have a dropbox account …. ripping them is pretty easy. May be a good way for us to exchange all those music files as well…
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Yes it would…That would be perfect.
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Oh yeah. I remember that well. Amazing how strange shit will stick with you for the rest of your life!
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It’s burned into my tiny brain dude lol.
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😂😂
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I love this song! Back in the late 1980’s, I had to tape – VHS, that is – about 12 hours of Sesame Street shows to find an episode that had this song. I learned how to play it, wrote out the lyrics and immediately added it to my repertoire. It was so much fun to play and sing! And you are the only other person I’ve ever known of who knows and loves and sings this song, too! Thanks so much for your post! You made my day!
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I guess we are the two that still plays it! It’s so fun and so pure. Thank you for reading!
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You are most welcome. I also had not known that Jim Kweskin had done it. Thanks for that info!
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I remember this! I would show this to my daughters!
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