Edited by Azizi Powell Show Latest Update - September 19, 2021 This pancocojams post showcases nine examples of songs or rhymes that influenced the development of the playground rhyme "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" or versions of that rhyme. I don't mean to indicate or imply that the featured songs in this post are the only songs or the only creative works that influenced the development of the huge family of playground rhymes known as "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" (or similar first lines/titles). Significantly, this post only includes two "frog in the well" songs, although many more of these very very old songs are important to the development of the playground rhyme "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky". The content of this post is presented for historical, educational, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes. The copyrights remain with their owners. My thanks to the composers and performers of this music. My thanks also to the videographers and uploaders of these featured videos, and thanks to Joseph Scott for the information given bekow in the Feb 11, 2014 update to this post. **** Short Form: down by the river of the hanky banky -snip- **** Note that there are earlier examples of songs that influenced "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" rhymes. One of those songs is May Irwin's "Foolish Frog", 1907. [corrected date: 9/19/2021] Added September 19, 2021 AUTHOR: Credited to Charles E. Trevathan Composer, Lyricist: Charles E. Trevathan ℗ 1976 Nonesuch Records Unlike this cover, version the lyrics that May Irwin sung wee in so-called "Negro" dialect. Click
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=76856 ; Jim Dixon, 01 Jan 05 - 03:49 PM) for the lyrics to May Irwin's rendition of "The Foolish Frog" misterbamboostick, Published on Jul 23, 2012 Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O (from Harry Smith's 'Anthology of American Folk Music : Ballads'). Support your favourite artists : buy vinyl, cd's or legal downloads. I don't own the rights to this song, I just want to share good music. **** Fats Waller - Topic Published on Aug 23, 2015 Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Eep, Ipe, Wanna Piece of Pie · Fats Waller Historical Jazz Recordings: 1938-1940 [Update: October 30, 2020] The sound file that was originally embedded in this post is no longer available. Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcv1NJeP-SU&ab_channel=OnlyJazzHQ **** Uploaded by folkgrassboy on Jul 30, 2008 Featured on VOLUME 2 of his Art Records releases. Calypso from the Bahamas. Featured on VOLUME 2 of his Art Records releases. Calypso from the Bahamas. Here are the lyrics with slight variation: Away down yonder in Yankety Yank A bullfrog jumped from bank to bank Cause there wasn't nothin' else to do; He stubbed his to and in he fell An' de neighbors all say that he went to...well, 'Cause he hadn't nothin' else to do. cho: An' jus' lots of folks is like dis foolish frog of mine, A-runnin' into trouble jus' to pass de time. An' de devil's allus loafin' 'round jus' to grab de kind That never hasn't nothin' else to do. When dey buried dat frog, de preacher said, "De reason why dis young frog is dead, "'Cause there wasn't nothin 'else to do." An' all you frogs jus' a listen to me, Yo' bettah stay at home wid yo' family, When you hav'nt nothin' else to do. Some frogs I know is pow'ful fond Of spendin' dey time in' nother frog's pond, 'Cause dey hasn't nothin'else to do. But dis consolation, de Good Book brings, De frog of dem habits won't wear no wings, 'Cause he hasn't nothin' else to do. Now all of yo' people dat heah dis song, Yo' knows why dis po' frog went wrong, 'Cause he hadn't nothin' else to do. You'd bettah keep busy on any kind of pay, Till de big horn blow on de judgement day, Den you will hab somethin' else to do. -snip- [Added September 19, 2021: From https://archive.org/stream/frankcbrowncolle03fran/frankcbrowncolle03fran_djvu.txt The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore; the folklore of North Carolina, collected by Dr. Frank C. Brown during the years 1912 to 1943, in collaboration with the North Carolina Folklore Society" [page] 189 "Way Down Yonder in Pasquotank; For divers rhymes about die bullfrog, see White's note, ANFS 244. Our particular rhyme he says be has known from boyhood. Forms of it showing the rhyme with "bank" (though not the proper noun Pascjuotank ) have been reported from Virginia (FSV 151 ), Tennessee (JAFL .xxvi 135), Soudi Carolina (JAFL xliv 425. Negroes), Alabama (ANFS 244), and Mississippi (JAFL xxvi 135)- 'Pasquotank.' Contributed, probably in 191 3, by the Reverend L. D. Haynian of Elizabeth City, Pasquotank county. ... Way down ycmder in Pasquotank. Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank, They jump so high they break their shank. The old grey goose went "yankety yank.'" **** oldtimer874, Uploaded on Oct 20, 2011 **** ladythatsmyskull, Uploaded on Jan 22, 2007 Originally performed by Howard Morris. Jetsons music video featuring 'Jet Screamer' from 60's TV show. **** Uploaded by TheLimePopsicle on Aug 15, 2009 Charted at #76 on Billboard Hot 100 in September 1963. Vocal by Joe and the "eefin" is performed by Jimmie Riddle. This was Joe's only Hot 100 entry. "Eefing (also written eeephing, eephing, eeefing, eefin, or eefn' and doubtless other ways) is an Appalachian (United States) vocal technique similar to beatboxing, but nearly a century older. Jennifer Sharpe describes it as "a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago.""... ****
videosMLR, Uploaded on Jul 6, 2011 **** Steve Johnson, Published on Apr 12, 2013 Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little and Big) - 1998 *There are a number of examples of the long form "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky rhyme" in the comment threads of YouTube videos of the short form of that rhyme. However, to date, I've not come across any video of the long form of that rhyme, and I've never heard it chanted in person. Therefore, I'm not sure what tune it uses. **** Uploaded by michaeljacksonVEVO on Oct 2, 2009 Music video by Michael Jackson performing Billie Jean. © 1982 MJJ Productions Inc. **** Published on Mar 21, 2012 by Nadia Smalling **** Subject: RE: Folklore: Do kids still do clapping rhymes? "Down by the banks of the Hanky-Panky _Norfolk, The Marine Metropolis Of Virginia_ by G. Nowitsky, 1888, includes _With The Guns In South Africa_ 1901 includes An article "'Coon' Tales From The Bahamas" in _The English Illustrated Magazine_ in 1905 included E.C. Perrow recalled hearing this in Tennessee in 1905: Newman White
(1892-1948) wrote in the 1920s: "From childhood I have known...: **** **** Visitor comments are welcome. Where did down by the banks originate?Probably of Irish origin.
How do you play down by the banks of the hanky panky?Someone sings the song, and while it's being sung, kids pass a slap around by clapping their palm-up top hand into the next person's palm-up hand. When the song starts to end, people start to get stressed because you don't want the song to end when you have the clap.
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank game?Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky, Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky, With a hip, hop, hippity, hop, Leap off a lily pad and go KERPLOP!
Who originally sang Hanky Panky?Hanky Panky (Tommy James and the Shondells song). |