The Name Game (The Banana Song) - Shirley Ellis/Dean Ford and The Gaylords/Stacy Lattisaw/Xuxa/Divine

The Name Game

The name game

Shirley

Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley 

Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley

Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln

Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln

Come on, everybody

I say now let's play a game

I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody's name

The first letter of the name, 

I treat it like it wasn't there

But a B or an F or an M will appear

And then I say bo add a B, 

Then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a fo

And then I say the name again with an F very plain

and a fee fy and a mo

And then I say the name again with an M this time

and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme

Arnold

Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold 

Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold

But if the first two letters are ever the same,

I drop them both and say the name like

Bob, Bob drop the B's Bo ob

For Fred, Fred drop the F's Fo red 

For Mary, Mary drop the M's Mo ary 

That's the only rule that is contrary.

Okay, now say Bo, Bo 

Now Tony with a B, Bony

Then Bonana fanna fo: bonana fanna fo

Then you say the name again with an F very plain, Fony

Then a fee fy and a mo, fee fy mo

Then you say the name again with an M this time, Mony

And there isn't any name that you can't rhyme

Everybody do Tony

Pretty good, let's do Billy

Very good, let's do Marsha

A little trick with Nick

The name game