BUNDLE-BUGGY BOOGIE
BUNDLE-BUGGY BOOGIE
Well, way up north
On a fine bright day,
A bundle-buggy boogied
At the break of day.
It did the boogie-woogie here,
It did the boogie-woogie there,
It did the bundle-buggy boogie-woogie
Ev-er-y-where:
Calabogie,
Kapuskasing,
Espanola,
Atikokan;
Manitoulin,
Madawaska,
Mindemoya,
Moosonee!
Then another bundle-buggy
Did a boogie-woogie hop,
And another and another
In the bundle-boogie bop.
And it’s boogie-woogie high,
And it’s boogie-woogie low,
And it’s bundle-buggy boogie-woogie
Everywhere you go:
Athabasca,
Abitibi,
Bona Vista,
Malaspina;
Bella Bella,
Bella Coola,
Batchawana,
Baie Comeau!
Copyright: from Jelly Belly (Macmillan of Canada, 1983), © Dennis Lee 1983, used by permission of the author and the publisher
About BUNDLE-BUGGY BOOGIE
This is another poem with place names, and here all the are places up in the far North. I think it might be the strangest poem I've ever written, because do you know what it's about? A whole lot of Bundle-Buggies. A Bundle-Buggy is a one of those little carts you push around to keep your shopping in. But here the Bundle-Buggies dance the Bundle-Buggy Boogie to the rhythm of the places where they live. Listen...