{"id":1606,"date":"2022-07-10T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T23:38:11","slug":"annie-mae-ellie-mae-eleanor-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2022\/07\/10\/annie-mae-ellie-mae-eleanor-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Mae? Ellie Mae? Eleanor? Alice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who exactly is going down the drain where you hear the sound &#8220;Glug Glug Glug&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Back in scouts there were a ton of campfire songs, and for the longest of times all I could remember of this specific one was &#8220;Anna May? Anna May?&#8221;. Upon googling to find out what&#8217;s going on with this the results weren&#8217;t that helpful at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ended up coming across <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.campillahee.com\/2013\/02\/26\/camp-songs-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sing Along! Annie Mae, Chug a Wump, and Fried Ham<\/a> which was kind enough to provide both audio and lyrics that were a good start of this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Annie Mae, where are you going?\r\nUpstairs to take a bath.\r\nAnnie Mae with legs like toothpicks,\r\nAnd a neck like a giraffe.\r\nAnnie Mae stepped in the bathtub,\r\nAnnie Mae pulled out the plug,\r\nOh my goodness, Oh my soul,\r\nThere goes Annie Mae down that hole!\r\nAnnie Mae, Annie Mae, glub, glub, glub <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This sounded pretty close to what I originally remembered, and the audio was pretty cool, too. With the updated lyrics I googled to see if I could find a better rendition of this audio and came across a moderately confusing yet admirable adaptation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/girl-scout-songs\/ellie-mae-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">songlyrics.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Ellie Mae, where are you going?\r\nUpstairs to take a bath.\r\nHer legs are like two toothpicks,\r\nHer neck like a giraffe!\r\nEllie Mae stepped in the water,\r\nTo pull the stopper out,\r\nOh my goodness, Oh my soul!\r\nThere goes Ellie Mae\r\nDown that hole!\r\nEllie Mae?\r\nEllie Mae?\r\nBlub, Blub, Blub!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>From Annie May to Ellie May, and from glub to blub. Woo, this is getting interesting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More googling we found a third rendition from bussongs.com where they called this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bussongs.com\/songs\/glug-glug-glug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Glug Glug Glug&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\"Eleanor, where are you going?\"\r\n\"Upstairs to take a bath\".\r\nEleanor, with legs like toothpicks;\r\nand a neck like a giraffe.\r\nEleanor got in the bathtub;\r\nEleanor pulled out the plug.\r\nOh my goodness!\r\nO my soul!\r\nThere goes Eleanor down the hole!\r\nGlug! Glug! Glug!<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>From Annie May to Ellie May to Eleanor, and from glub to blub to Glug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding a 4th iteration didn&#8217;t seem to be that difficult as I cross into lyrics-24.com with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lyrics-24.com\/lyrics,tradycyjne-alice-where-are-you-going.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Alice where are you going?&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Alice where are you going?\nUpstairs to take a bath.\nAlice, with legs like toothpicks\nAnd a neck like a girraffe.\nAlice where are you going?\nGlug Glug Glug\nAlice stepped in the bathtub\nPulled out the plug and then.\nOh my goodness, bless my soul,\nThere goes Alice down the hole!\nAlice where are you going?\nGlug Glug Glug<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie May->Ellie May->Eleanor->Alice, and now we&#8217;re going from &#8220;O my soul&#8221; to &#8220;bless my soul!&#8221;. There is even a very energetic youtube rendition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alice Where Are You Going Song\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9bFJcYnos4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In that case, bless all their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In summary, thinking about old camping songs and seeing that there were probably a billion other differences between them all doesn&#8217;t matter. What really mattered is that this was one of the many songs that brought many people together, singing and cheering and smiling, and that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s really important to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who exactly is going down the drain where you hear the sound &#8220;Glug Glug Glug&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}