Edited by Azizi Powell
Latest update - November 2, 2025
This is Part Ii of a three part pancocojams series on the English language children's recreational rhyme "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" (also known as There's A Party Up The Hill" Will you please Come?"
This post presents examples of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" (and similar titles) of the "Please Bring bubble gum...and blowing kisses" version of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner".
I've included the names of countries where this version of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner".... is identified by the commenter or by the title of the online discussion thread or video. So far in this compilation, the countries that were identified this way identified are Australia, South Africa. and the United States.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/10/theres-party-round-corner-would-you.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post presents information about this rhyme including its history and its accompanying play activities. In addition, this post presents some examples of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" (also known as "There's A Party On The Hill" and similar titles.).
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/10/some-more-australian-examples-of-theres.html for Part III of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" recreational rhymes. That post presents more examples of Australian versions of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" (also known as "There's A Party Up The Hill" Would You Please Come?" and similar titles
The content of this post is presented for folkloric, historical, socio-cultural, and recreational purposes.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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DISCLAIMER
This pancocojams post doesn't mean to imply that these are the only countries where children (usually girls) have chanted or still chant this version or other versions of 'There's A Party 'Round The Corner...".
Please add to the folkloric record by sharing in the comment section below geographic information (city & nation o city, state if inside the United States as well as the year/decade you first chanted or know people who chanted this rhyme. Thanks in advance!
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Online examples of There's A Party 'Round The Corner..." document that its large number of variants, many of whom were (are) probably the result of accidental folk processing (i.e. the words being changed because of misremembering and/or mishearing and then substituting what you thought was said for similar sounding words or sounds.
Folk processing explains the three common titles for this children's recreational rhyme: "There's A Party 'Round The Corner", "There's A Party Up The Hill" and "There's A Party On The Hill".
Evidence of folk processing in these rhymes is even more apparent in the evolution of the lines "Bring your own cup and saucer and a cream bun. Who is your best chum?" in early examples of this rhyme. Those lines have changed to "bring your own cappacino and your own bubblegum", or "bring your own toilet paper and a bottle of rum" or "Bring your own smelly feet and your own dirty bum", and numerous other variants. Most of these variant forms of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" can be traced to mishearing or misremembering the word "chum" which means "friend".
(Also, for my fellow United Staters, the word "bum" in the phrase "dirty bum" means "butt"/"behind").
As an American community foIklorist, I'm not familiar with "There's A Party 'Round The Corner", except as lines that are occasionally found in long form versions of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky". I wonder if this rhyme was in the past or still is chanted by itself in the United States as a jump rope (skipping) rhyme, or as a counting out rhyme, or as a partner hand clap rhyme, or group hand slapping (elimination) rhyme as appears to have been the case (or is still the case) in Great Britain, Australia, and some other English speaking countries and with some other English speaking populations.
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EXAMPLES OF THIS VERSION OF "THERE'S A PARTY 'ROUND THE CORNER RHYMES
These versions of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" ("There's A Party On The Hill" ) rhymes include the "'bubblegum/"chewing gum and boyfriend blowing kisses line from variant forms of that recreational rhyme.
This pancocojams compilation also includes examples of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" that include a variant form of the "cup and saucer/bubblegum" line from "There's A Party 'Round The Corner" ("There's A Party On The Hill".)
Click Part III of this pancocojams series for other versions of "There's A Party 'Round The Corner..." that don't have the "bubblegum"/"chewing gum" and "blowing kisses" words.
These sources are given in no particular order and are numbered for referencing purposes only.
Source #1 [These commenters didn't identify the name of their country.]
From https://allieslifeinwords.blogspot.com/2012/07/theres-party-around-corner-will-you.html
1 "theres a party around the corner will you please please come
bring your own cappuccino and your own chewing gum. what is your lovers name?
josh. Josh will be there blowing kisses in the air saying i love allie yiata
yiata yiata i love allie yiata yiata yiata. o-u-t- spells you are out"
-. Musicaluver, July 31, 2012
--snip-
In her profile, musicaluver's nickname (or name) is "Allie".
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2. "I know that hand game 😎😎"
- Unknown, November 27, 2015
3. "
-Raquel Deo, January 31, 2016
4."
Theres party round the corner would u like to come bring urn
own cups of sauces and ur own bubblegum by the way whats ur boyfriends name (
name here) (name here) will be there blowing kisses in the air saying i love u
i love u kings queens brussel sprouts u are out"
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5. "I know it as
theres a party round the corner would you please please come
bring your own cup and saucer and your own chewing gum so what is your
boyfriend or girlfriends name (Insert name ) ** will be there blowing kisses in
the air saying i love (Insert Other name) I said I said I love **, How many
kisses do you want? count number of kisses and then OUT spells you go out"
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6. "
-Unknown, January 8, 2017
7."
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8."
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9.
"There's a party round the corner owuld you please
please come. Bring your own cups of soda and your own bubble gum. Now what's
your boyfriend slash girlfriends name?______. _______ Will be there blowing
kisses in the air saying I love ______ I love _____ now you are in and you are
out."
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10." i know it as
there's a party round the corner will you please please come bring your own cappacino and your own chewing gum what is your boyfreind's name? (name). (name) will be there blowin kisses in the air sayin i love (name) (name) (name) (name) i love (name) (name) (name) (name) o-u-t spells you are out."
-Unknown, March 14, 2019
11. "
-Unknown, March 28, 2019
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12."I know it as
Theres a party around the corner will you please please come bring your own smokes and your own bubble gum, what is your boyfriend name. Ben. Ben will be there blowing kisses in the air saying I love (your name) I love (your name) o-u-t spells out"
-Unknown, June 13, 2019
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13. "I know it as:
There's a party on the hill, would you like to come? Bring your own cup of soda and your own bubblegum. What is your boyfriend's name? Jimmy. Jimmy will be there, blowing kisses in the air, singing oola la _____ oola la _____. You are not in"
-Unknown, June 29, 2019
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14."at my school it was “there’s a party going on so please
please come, bring your own sausages and your own bubblegum, shout out your
boyfriends name. (Name) will be there blowing kisses in the air saying I love
(your name), I love (your name), o-u-t spells out so out you go"
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15. "
There's a party around the corner would you like to come,
bring your own cups an saucers and your own bubblegum. By the way, what's your
boyfriends name? (name here)
(name here) would be there blowing kisses in the air, saying
I love you, I love you!
[Whoever the 'you!' goes on is out).
-Unknown, April 26, 2021
16."
-Unknown, July 8, 2021
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Source #2
From https://bpsrhymes.appspot.com/rhymes/party.html "Botany public School Rhymes"
"Party 'round the corner [title]
There's a party 'round the corner
If you wish to come
Bring your own cup of soda
And your own bubblegum
By the way
What is your best friend's name?
**** will be there blowing kisses in the air
Saying ooh la la ____
Ooh la la ____
By the way you are out!"
-snip-
Here's information about "Botany Bay" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany,_New_South_Wales
"Botany is a suburb in the south of the Eastern Suburbs of
Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Botany is 11 kilometres
south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Bayside
Council...
Botany sits on the northern shore of Botany Bay, east of Sydney Airport"
-snip-
This is the way that example is written on that website. The asterisks represent the best friend's name and the "___" represents the chanter's name.
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Source #3
from https://www.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/1n4zql4/anyone_remember_this_clapping_game/ South African Comments: Anyone Remembers This Clapping Game?
"Anyone remember this clapping game?
Growing up me and my friends would play this clapping game
but I can’t for the life of me remember it or how it went.
We would all sit in a circle with our hands on our knees and clap the persons hand next to us and they would do the same to the person next to them. It started with something I can’t remember (maybe it was bubblegum bubblegum?) and then in the middle of the song you would pick a name. So whoever the song ended on would have to pick a name. Then you go (name chosen) will be there blowing kisses in the air saying I love you, saying, saying I love you. How many kisses will he blow in three days time. Then again song ends and whoever was last clapped on the hands picks a number.
That’s all I can remember. Anyone else play this game?
Otherwise maybe it’s just a game we made up"
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Reply
2.PheeaA, 2025
"There's a party down the hill, will you please come come.
Bring your own cup and saucer, and your own bubblegum. What is your boyfriend's
name?....or something like that."
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Reply
3. lexxy7 (OP), 2025
"OMG yes yes that’s it. For a second I thought i made this up
cause no one knew🙈"
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4. tumblingmoose, 2025
"Conscientiotiously... and the best of my ability
We always said “there’s a party round the corner” but there
may be slight differences based on where you’re from/who taught you the game"
-snip-
Pancocojams Editor- This description reminds me of how group hand slapping games like "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" are played.
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{Pancocojams Editor's Note regarding Source #3 & Source #4:
The lines from "There's A Party Round The Corner" in versions of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" are given in italics for referencing purposes only.
Source #4
From: GUEST,mooseormeece?, 21 May 08, https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94034&messages=476&page=4 "Origins:
Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky"
"I learned this and forgot most of it (not complete! but it
goes sort of like this....
Down by the bay in beverly hills
where the bull frog jumps from bank to banky
and the heeps hops, coffee shops,
we all drink mochas and we wear flip flops
(faster)
I pledge allegence to the flag
Michal jackson makes me gag
coca cola has cafeine and now we're talking billy jean
billy jean when out of style now lets sit and talk a while
diddy diddy donkey
daddy had a donkey
donkey died, daddy cried
diddy diddy donkey!
theres a party round the corner wont you please please
come
bring your own cappuchinos and your own chewing gum
what is your boy friends name?______ (whoever the clap
lands on has to come up with a name)
_______ will be there blowing kisses in the air saying I
love ______ (who ever came up with the name) saying I love_____ saying O U T
spells you are out!
OR
______will be there blowing kissed in the air singin'
I... Love...Ma..Ma...Mia, singin' I love ma...ma...mia singin' O U T spells you
are out!"
-snip-
I believe that this example is probably from the United States because its a longform version of "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" and the "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" rhyme originated in that country and I believe that long from versions of that rhyme are more widely chanted in the USA known in the USA than anywhere else.
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Source #5
From https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/pme8mi/down_by_the_banks_of_the_hanky_panky/ Nostalgia comments: "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky"
1. "Denver colorado:, 2024
"saying heeps hops over the tops and he
lands on a lily pad with a kerplop. i pledge allegiance to the flag that justin
beaber makes me gag, coca cola has caffeine and now we’re talking billy jean,
billy jean went out of style now let’s sit and talk a while. there’s a party
round the corner won’t you please please come bring your own Frappuccino and
your own chewy gum, what is your boyfriends name?
-snip-
I'm including this example even though it doesn't have the "blowing kisses" line.
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2. DragonDragon27, 2024
"Then it went “I pledge allegiance to the flag, Michael
Jackson makes me gag, Coca Cola has caffeine, now we’re talking Billie Jean,
Billie jeans went out of style, now let’s sit and talk a while, there’s a party
round the corner won’t you please please come, bring your own cappuccino and
your own chewing gum” and then either “what is your boyfriend’s name” or
something about winning (From Colorado)"
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Source #6
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X91BT6X7iSs "Down by the Banks (Girl Scout Game)" by Girl Scout Troop 7579. Nov 7, 2021
1. @kkachi560, 2023 [comment]
"I've never heard this version before! The one I know goes
like:
Down by the banks of the hanky panky
Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky
With a hips, hops, over the tops
Lands on a lilypad with a ker-plop
Plus an optional long version that very few people I played
with knew:
[above]
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Justin Bieber makes me gag*
Coca Cola has caffeine
Now we're talking Billie Jean
Billie Jean went out of style
Let's go sit and talk a while
There's a party at the corner
Will you please please come
Bring your own Frappuccino
And your own chewing gum
What is your boyfriend's name?**
BF will be there
Blowing kisses in the air
Saying "I love GF, yadda yadda yadda"
"I love GF, yadda yadda yadda"
O - U - T spells you are out!
* Alternate line is "Michael Jackson is my dad"
which I guess makes a bit more sense with the Billie Jean line
** The game stops for a moment, the player it landed on will
say what their boyfriend's name is and then the song continues. My friends and
I (elementary schoolers) would change this to "What is your best friend's
name?" and just say someone from the circle, it was never very serious.
"I love [name]" would be changed to "I like [name]"
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