bee baw babbity ( a song for choosing partners )

At school come the Xmas party the boys would line up against one set of wall bars and the girls would be on the opposite side of the gym hall. Nobody would dance. So the teachers got the boys to form a circle and got them going clockwise. Then the girls formed a circle outside then and spun in an anticlockwise direction and we all sang Bee Baw Babbity, and when the music stopped then who ever was opposite you was your partner for the dance. Only trouble was there were good looking girls and fat boys and spotty girls and boys who wore brylcream. Everybody wanted to avoid somebody and everybody wanted to hook up with somebody and as a result the circles would either speed up or slow down. It was chaos. With that preamble out of the way the inspiration for doing this song came from two sources Mary-Ann and her Philip Glass song where you have to have headphones on to get the full effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TScHz7hP60 and her endevour was based on Knees 5 by Philip Glass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpoWWnR348M and Tony who has been delving into is past and remembering what it was like to be a teenager. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCRcCsaFU5E So there are three things going on. The song is floating above your head, the distraught teacher is in the left channel and a haiku by Anselm Hollo is recited in the right channel which is as follows This morning the one long hair in my beard made me smile for it was yours.