"Tell Me a Story" is a song written by Terry Gilkyson and performed by Jimmy Boyd and Frankie Laine, with the Norman Luboff Chorus.
[1] The song is a mini-opera of a duet between the "Junior", of kindergarten age, who demands his hard working father to read him a story.
The father, who has gotten no raise at work, is wanting to seek relief from the world, when all of a sudden, the "Junior" yells out to him to repeatedly tell him a story.
The "Junior" asks his father to tell him a story about a fish who was "Bigger than a Whale".
This drives the angry father to swat him 3 times on the buttocks, causing the "Junior" to yell "OW" and making him go to bed.