Do Annie and Daddy Warbucks Take Baths Together?

[Mildred Plotka]

The lyric has always felt a little creepy to me:

ANNIE

And what's the bathtub tune
You always "Bu-Bu-Boo?"

WARBUCKS

Bu-Bu-Bu
Anything but you


How does Annie know this? Does she walk by the bathroom and hear it? I hope that's how she knows it...

[jv92]

Ben? Is that you?

[GlindatheGood22]

How exactly does one Bu Bu Boo?

[SondheimFan5]

I would gladly give up coffee or sanka...buh buh buh boo-ooooh...

[CurtainPullDowner]

Is this a Honey Bu Bu reference?

[Jon]

For you youngsters, I'm pretty sure it's a Bing Crosby reference.

[Jordan Catalano]

[madbrian]

So, in Nuts, is Streisand playing a grown-up Annie?

[sondheimboy2]

There was a somewhat popular song of the era called "Singing in the Bathtub"

(The only place that one might be familiar with it nowadays would be in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.)

[aaronb]

You can usually hear people singing in the shower/bathtub from outside the room.