tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post4060979093200239166..comments2024-03-29T05:26:28.491-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Song Sources For Down By The Banks Of The Hanky PankyAzizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-28545171600244936252022-03-24T10:46:46.892-04:002022-03-24T10:46:46.892-04:00I just read this comment about an early example of...I just read this comment about an early example of the song/rhyme that became "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky":<br /><br /><a href="https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=105470&messages=6" rel="nofollow">https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=105470&messages=6</a><br /><br />"Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Way Down Yonder in the Yankety-yank<br />From: GUEST<br />Date: 18 Mar 22 - 09:44 PM<br /><br />Yonder on the banks of the Yankety-Yank<br />The bullfrog jumped from Bank To Bank<br />Because there wasn't anything else to do<br /><br />He stubbed his toe and in he fell<br />The neighbours said he went to . . . well<br />Because there wasn't anything else to do.<br /><br /><br />NOTE: we use to sing this song around the campfire at our family cabin in Utah. My grandmother use to sing it and that would have been in the early 50's so the song has been around for a while as my mom who was born in 1922 remembers as a kid singing it at the cabin."<br /><br />-snip-<br />This is an example of a profanity avoidance rhyme. The most well known example of those types of rhymes in the United States (since at least the 1960s) is "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat". Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-62086783950500748602018-10-25T07:14:00.174-04:002018-10-25T07:14:00.174-04:00Hello, eric howl.
I appreciate your compliment.
...Hello, eric howl. <br /><br />I appreciate your compliment.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing that you remember "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky in Philadelphia, PA.<br /><br />Boys weren't (and still aren't) usually "in to" doing hand clap routines, but in the case of competitive hand clap games like "Down By The Banks Of The Hanky Panky" and "Slap Billy- Ola*) , I've found that boys like those games just as much or almost as much as girls.<br /><br />In my experience as a convener of after school cultural programming that centered around teaching children old African American children's rhymes and in my experience as a substitute teacher in Pittsburgh public schools (both in mostly Black schools from 2004-2007) I found that boys didn't like to start these games, but would readily join in playing them.<br /><br />*"Slap Billy-Ola" is one name for a circle hand slap game also known as "Stella Ella Ola".Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-82794859826623599502018-10-24T13:34:58.495-04:002018-10-24T13:34:58.495-04:00Wow you did an incredible job of looking into the ...Wow you did an incredible job of looking into the origins of this song we sang in 6th grade in philly thank ueric howlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-29955571926731900032016-06-01T19:16:40.189-04:002016-06-01T19:16:40.189-04:00You're welcome, Tsione Anteneh.You're welcome, Tsione Anteneh.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-77541340817928094692016-06-01T18:30:49.516-04:002016-06-01T18:30:49.516-04:00thank you so muchthank you so muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com