"On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan featured in his 1959 book Silly Verse for Kids.
[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".
Various animals, plants and created objects "say" or, more often, "go" various sounds (capitalization in the original): cows go "Bong!