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Rooty Toot Toots and Rummy Tum Tums

  • 11-12-2007 10:34am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭


    Having listened to the Christmas song since I was a nipper, I have now come to wonder what exactly are Rooty Toot Toots and Rummy Tum Tums.

    Can anyone enlighten me?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Where I came from, they were always Rum pa pum pums. None of this Rummy Tum tum malarky for us, nosireebob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    Is that not from the little drummer boy though?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Farts and Burps?:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Pa rum pa pum pum indeed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Thats where I know it from. I always took it to be the noise of the drummer playing away during the song. Seeing as nobody actually had a drum when we sang it, it just sufficed to say rumpa pum pum instead.
    Probably just as well we didnt actually have drums.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    4Xcut wrote: »
    Is that not from the little drummer boy though?

    Let Whitney Houston show you the lyrics
    Little Drummer Boy Lyrics
    Artist(Band):Whitney Houston

    (feat. Bobbi Kristina Brown)

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Come they told me, pa rum pa pum pum

    [Whitney:] Sing baby

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Our newborn King to see, pa rum pa pum pum
    Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pa pum pum
    To lay before the King, pa rum pa pum pum,
    Rum pa pum pum, rum pa pum pum,
    So to honor Him, pa rum pa pum pum,
    When we come

    [Whitney:] That's my baby, oh
    Baby Yeshua, pa rum pa pum pum
    I am a poor boy too, pa rum pa pum pum
    I have no gift to bring, pa rum pa pum pum
    That's fit to give a King, pa rum pa pum pum,
    rum pa pum pum, rum pa pum pum
    Shall I play for you, pa rum pa pum pum,
    On my drum? Yeah, c'mon.

    Oh I wanna play
    Ooh pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa, pa rum pa, pum pum
    Yeah pa rum pa pum pum
    Playing on my drum (playing on my drum)
    Ooh pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa, pa rum pa, pum pum
    Yeah pa rum pa pum pum
    Playing on my drum

    Mary nodded, pa rum pa pum pum
    (Yes she did oh, Mary nodded)
    The ox (the ox) and lamb kept time, pa rum pa pum pum
    Pa rum pa pum pum
    I played my drum for Him, pa rum pa pum pum
    (Pa rum pa pum pum)
    I played my best for Him, pa rum pa pum pum
    Rum pa pum pum, rum pa pum pum, oh
    Then He smiled at me, pa rum pa pum pum

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Me and my drum

    [Whitney:] Ooh yeah, me and my

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Me and my drum

    [Whitney:] Pa rum pum, pa rum pum
    My drum, drum, drum, drum
    Mary nodded, pa rum pa pum pum
    Me and my drum
    Then he smiled at me, he smiled at me

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Pa rum pa pum pum

    [Whitney:] On, on my, on my, on my drum yeah
    Na na na na na na
    Me and my, me and my, me and my drum, drum, drum yeah
    Oh hey yeah
    Playing for Yeshua, playing for Yeshua

    [Bobbi Kristina:] Pa rum pa pum pum

    [Whitney:] Playing my drum
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa pum pum, oh ma ma ma

    [Bobbi Kristina: (Giggles)]

    Whitney: Playing on my drum, playing on my drum
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa, pa rum pa
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa, pa rum pa
    Oh oh Lord
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pa, pa rum pa
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pum, pa rum pum
    Pa rum pa pum pum, pa rum pum, pa rum pum
    Pa rum pa pum pum


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    But in the sont "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".....


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    rooty toots? :confused:

    if its the Little Drummer Boy, then its rum pa pa pum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    It means sex.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    4Xcut wrote: »
    But in the sont "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town".....

    This is how Mariah Carey sings it.
    Santa Claus is Coming to Town Lyrics
    Artist(Band):Mariah Carey


    You better watch out
    You better not cry
    You better not pout
    I'm telling you why

    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town

    He's making a list
    He's checking it twice
    He's gonna find out
    Who's naughty or nice

    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town

    He sees you when you're sleeping
    He knows when you're awake
    He knows if you've been bad or good
    So be good for goodness sake

    So you better watch out
    You better not cry
    You better not pout
    I'm telling you why

    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town
    Santa Claus is comin' to town

    The kids in girl and boyland
    Will have a jubilee
    They're gonna build a toyland
    All around the Christmas tree

    So you better watch out
    You better not cry
    You better not pout
    I'm telling you why

    Santa Claus (is comin' to town)
    Santa Claus (is comin' to town)
    Santa Claus is comin'
    Santa Claus is comin'
    Santa Claus is comin'
    To town


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    On re-reading my initial post i now see that i didn;t make clear what song i was referring to.

    Santa Claus is Coming to Town


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    http://www.christmas-carols.net/carols/santa-claus-coming-town.html

    Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

    Oh! You better watch out,
    You better not cry,
    You better not pout,
    I'm telling you why:

    Santa Claus is coming to town!

    He's making a list,
    He's checking it twice,
    He's gonna find out
    who's naughty or nice.

    Santa Claus is coming to town!

    He sees you when you're sleeping,
    He knows when you're awake.
    He knows when you've been bad or good,
    So be good for goodness sake!

    So...You better watch out,
    You better not cry
    You better not pout,
    I'm telling you why.

    Santa Claus is coming to town.

    Little tin horns,
    Little toy drums.
    Rudy-toot-toot
    and rummy tum tums.


    Santa Claus is coming to town.

    Little toy dolls
    that cuddle and coo,
    Elephants, boats
    and Kiddie cars too.

    Santa Claus is coming to town.

    The kids in Girl and Boy Land
    will have a jubilee.
    They're gonna build a toyland town
    all around the Christmas tree.

    Oh....You better watch out,
    You better not cry.
    You better not pout,
    I'm telling you why.

    Santa Claus is comin'
    Santa Claus is comin'
    Santa Claus is comin'
    To town.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Too late, there are now four people in my office singing little drummer boy (and I'm not one of them, HA! :) )


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    Thank you DesF, now back to the important question at hand. I better find out or else Christmas will be canceled.......I'm serious.:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Archeron wrote: »
    Too late, there are now four people in my office singing little drummer boy (and I'm not one of them, HA! :) )
    I like that song, in fact, it's my fave this year.
    4Xcut wrote: »
    Thank you DesF,
    Yeah, no bother.

    I think it just refers to the sounds made by the
    Little tin horns,
    Little toy drums.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭4Xcut


    By Jove, I think he's got it, he's got it, he's got it.
    You said he wouldn't get it but in the end he did!

    Right, that's it lads and ladies. Its settled, they are the noises of the afore mentioned instruments


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    DesF wrote: »
    I like that song, in fact, it's my fave this year.


    Yeah, no bother.

    I think it just refers to the sounds made by the

    Good work, I never thought of that before. You should get a Christmas song medal!


  • Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    Are they not types of candy or "holiday treats" in the US or elsewhere? I don't know but I'd presume that's what they are! ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    l3LoWnA wrote: »
    Are they not types of candy or "holiday treats" in the US or elsewhere? I don't know but I'd presume that's what they are! ?

    Scratch that!

    I'd say the first person to come up with the idea of it rhyming with drum and flute is right!

    It's almost like cockney slang for flute (rooty toot toot) and drum (rummy tum tum)


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