"On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan featured in his 1959 book Silly Verse For Kids.[1] In 1998 it was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.[2]
This nonsense verse, set to music,[3] became popular in Australia where it was performed weekly on the ABC children's programme Play School; however, it is now only shown on occasion. In December 2007 it was reported that, according to OFSTED, it is among the ten most commonly taught poems in primary schools in the UK.[4]
It features on the albums No One's Gonna Change Our World, There's A Bear In There and Play School Favourites, and on the 'B' side of Milligan's own "Badjelly the Witch".
^Milligan, Spike (1959). Silly verse for kids. London: D. Dobson.
^"Top poetry is complete nonsense". BBC News. 10 October 1998. Retrieved 12 June 2008.
^"On the Ning Nang Nong (Good Quality)". Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 – via www.youtube.com.
^"Laureate attacks poetry teaching". BBC. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2007.
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