What song do you sing in your language when you are doing something stupid that is boring to kill the time?

Question

In English maybe 100 bottles of beer on the wall... In Dutch there is a never ending song called "a little jar of fat" (don't ask),that's the sort of songs I mean. The kind that children sing during looooon car rides.

left out a g. long car rides.

Answer 1

There are several:

Yo Mama by Frank Zappa
Baby Snakes by Frank Zappa
Flakes by Frank Zappa
Jazz Discharge Party Hats by Frank Zappa
Green Rosetta by Frank Zappa

People have claimed there is a pattern here, but I can't see it....

Answer 2

Here's the story of a lovely lady,
Who is bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

It's the story of a man named Brady,
Who was busy with three boys of his own.
They were four men living all together,
Yet they were all alone.

Til the one day when the lady met this fellow,
And they knew that it was much more than a hunch.
That's this group would somehow form a family,
That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.

The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch.
That's the way we became the Brady Bunch

Answer 3

Welsh..'Oes gafr eto.?
Oes heb ei godro
Ar y creigiau geirwon ..
Mae'r hen afr yn crwydro.
Gafr..goch, goch,goch
Ie, fingoch ,fingoch, fingoch,
Foel gyffongoch, foel gyffongoch.
Ystlys goch a cynffon...goch, goch, goch.

Coch = red..the song then changes the colours to las (blue) and wen (white) and the song gradually gets quicker and quicker.
eg..Gafr las, las, las,
Ie finlas,finlas,finlas.
Foel gynffonlas, foel gynffonlas,
Ystlys las a chynffon..
Las,las,las.

Great fun for the kids (and grown up kids too.)

Answer 4

In Spanish:

Un elefante se columpiaba sobre la tela de una araña , como veia que resistia fueron a buscar otro elefante.

Dos elefantes se columpiaban sobre la tela de una araña, como veian que resistia fueron a buscar otro elefante...

(An elephant was swinging on a spider's web, when he noticed that it resisted, he went looking for another elephant.

Two elephants were swinging on a spider's web, when they noticed that it resisted, they went looking for another elephant...)

Answer 5

this is the song that never ends...it just goes on and on my friend....some people starting singing it not knowing what it was and now continue singing it for ever just because this is the song that never ends...and so on..

Answer 6

In Ukrainian, an assortment of folk songs.

Answer 7

in Arabic language:
How sweet the farmer`s liefs
he has a very comfortable heart
he can enjoy himself by playing in wide land
the blue sky always help him to do every thing

Answer 8

Not sure who sings it. But I sing "I feel the rain". It goes:

I feel the rain, I feel the rain
i feel it falling donw on me

I feel the rain, i feel the rain
i feel it falling down on me

It's the former and the latter rain together
and im not talkin' 'bout the weather
the Holy Ghost rain is falling down on me

Answer 9

There's a French song which goes:
"Un elephant, ça trompe, ça trompe,
Un elephant, ça trompe énormément."

And it's like the green bottles...having started with one, you continue counting, verse by verse, until everyone gets tired of it.

Answer 10

all the new hit songs on the radio.. my fave is the fray, how to save a life n avril lavigne, keep holding on.