"The Wheels on the Bus" is an American folk song written by Verna Hills (1898–1990).
The earliest known publishing of the lyrics is the December 1937 issue of American Childhood,[1] originally called "The Bus", with the lyrics being "The wheels of the bus", with each verse ending in lines relevant to what the verse spoke of, as opposed to the current standard "all through the town" (or "all day long" in some versions).
It is based on the traditional British song "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush".
The song is also sometimes sung to the tune of "Buffalo Gals", as in the version done by Raffi and The Wiggles.
Modern versions of the song change the lyrics in the seventh verse to say the daddies on the bus go "I love you".
Note that this version does not make any reference to the melody that is commonly attached to the song.
[4] The song also has lyrics in Swedish, Hjulen på bussen ("The Wheels on the Bus"), and among the artists who have recorded it are Pernilla Wahlgren in 1996.