ブン、ブン、ブン、ハチが飛ぶ♪

When I was listening to the radio early in the morning, I happened to hear a very nostalgic song:
「ブン、ブン、ブン、ハチが飛ぶ♪」. Do you know it?

My mind flashed back to a scene in the past. The song always brings back a particular emotion to my wife and me for some unforgettable reason.

We have three children, all daughters—the elders are twins. One day the twins said in unison to us happily and cheerfully that they learned the song in the kindergarten. So we urged them to let us hear it. Then they began to sing it in chorus, stamping their feet rhythmically (like bees!):

「ブン、ブン、ブン、ハチがとブン♪」.

—Yes! not「ハチが飛ぶ♪」but「ハチがとブン♪」!

It was SOOOOOO CUUUUUUTE!!!!!! They were our sweet mind-bogglers :). It was such cute stage vocalism and movement that we never felt tempted to correct their locution—in fact; we began to sing with them:

「ブン、ブン、ブン、ハチがとブン♪」again and again and again :).

O sweeties, it was a really, really happy time and has remained a sweet memory to cherish and fondle.

以上、「ハチがとブン左衛門」、もとい、章太郎でした。w