Señor Wooly’s Blog

I finished creating a music video for my song, ¿Puedo ir al baño?. The song is about a boy who desperately needs to go to the bathroom, but can’t because of the short passing period. He asks his teacher for permission — through song, of course.

Watch the video, ¿Puedo ir al baño?

Ever since writing the song two years ago, I wanted to make a music video for it. However, I knew that finding the right person to play the student would be very difficult. I was a couple months too old to pull it off myself, and finding a student who could convincingly perform both the acting and lip-syncing would be challenging. Fortunately, Justin exceeded my expectations. I think you’ll agree that he puts in an excellent performance.

I hope you enjoy this video. This video is also the first completely new content to go on my brand new website: www.SeñorWooly.com

Puedo Ir al Baño Links:

• ¿Puedo ir al baño? Lyrics Page
• ¿Puedo ir al baño? Music Video
• ¿Puedo ir al baño? Karaoke Video

illy la Bufanda has always been my most well-known song. I find this popularity to be rather humorous, since it is far and away my most ridiculous song. It’s about a scarf that goes places and does things, despite the fact that being a scarf makes it impossible to do those things and go to those places. I imagine that many find this lack of logic to be annoying, but I personally find it to be rather endearing.

The Origin of Billy la Bufanda

Four years ago, I wrote an original story about Billy la Bufanda. My students and I were working on a chapter that included winter clothing vocabulary. Therefore, I crafted a short story about a scarf that hates all other clothing. One day he falls to the ground and meets a pair of boots. He immediately falls in love with them, and they with him. However, before they have a chance to get to know each other, Sr. Wooldridge picks the scarf back up, and Billy never sees the boots again.

For some reason, my students absolutely loved the story of Billy la Bufanda, and regularly begged me for more. Hence, the song.

Teaching tips

The song serves as a fun introduction to IR (to go) and PARA (in order to).

I recommend teaching Billy la Bufanda with its companion piece, the Ir - Preterite song.

Sometimes I let my students make up their own lyrics to the song. If you buy the CD, it contains alternate tracks of each song without vocals. Once in awhile, if I’m feeling adventurous, I make my students record those new lyrics. Listen to the following samples:

Billy Alternate 1
Billy Alternate 2

Billy la Bufanda Links:

• Billy la Bufanda Lyrics Page
• Billy la Bufanda Music Video
• Billy la Bufanda Karaoke Video