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K-K-K-KATY
KEEMO KIMO
KICKING MULE
K-K-K-KATY
K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy
You're the only g-g-g-girl that I adore,
When the m-moon shines over the cowshed,
I will meet you at the k-k-k-kitchen door.
KEEMO KIMO
Q1. From Peggy: Hi, I'm trying to find this silly song but I don't know
all of it or the title. Could you help This is all I know:
There was a little frog that lived by a spring,
keemo-kimo-nee-wah-wah
hi and a ho and a rumple-humple-stumple diddle
loop cat-scoop cat... johnny got a boot jack"
Q2 From Judy S. I saw the words to some kemo-kimo folk songs on your
web-site. My father (born Maine, lived NYC), used to sing a kemo-kimo song
that our extended family still sings to the children and grandchildren to
this day. It goes like this:
There was a frog who could not sing
Sing song kitty, won't you ki-me-oh
He had such a cold that he could not sing
Sing song kitty, won't you ki-me-oh
Chorus:
Kemo, Kimo, pat-a-mick-a-murphy
Dinny O'Fanagan a rock-a-doyle
Rumma jigga hum-strum
Hit em on the hat band
Swat nyes Ebanezer ram-za-lo
The words are as I remember them. Do you have the words in your files?
(See below) Do you have the music? (try and follow the path)
Thanks, in advance.
A This is yet one more varient. Any more out there? PR
A. Here are just few Keemo-Kimo variants, and a couple of references to
more:
1. In Carolina folks all go,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
That's where the white folks plant the tow,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Cover the ground all over with smoke,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Then their heads around they'll poke,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
CHORUS: Kemo kimo, There, oh where,
With my Hi, my Ho, and in come Sally singin'
Sometimes penny whistle, ling tum nip cat
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
What'cha gonna do when the rain don't fall,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Crops grow short instead of tall,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Sometimes everthing turns out wrong,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Cotton grows short instead of long,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh. CHORUS:
There was a frog lived in a pool,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
Sure he was the biggest fool,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
The frog could dance and the frog could sing,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
He made the woods all 'round him ring,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh. CHORUS:
There was a frog lived in a well,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
He liked to fight and give them hell,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
The see-sesh to the Devil, Hades,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh.
But mind your manners with the ladies,
Sing song kitty can't you ki-me-oh. CHORUS:
2. Kemo Kimo
There was a frog, lived in a pool
Sing song Kitty won't you Ki-me-o
He sure was the biggest fool.
Sing song Kitty won't you Ki-me-o
He could dance and he could sing.
Sing song Kitty won't you Ki-me-o
He could make the woods all ring.
Sing song Kitty won't you Ki-me-o
Chorus: Kemo-kimo dear ah, oh.
Ma hi ma hon Willie Billie Wink-dum
Rumpa-dumpa doo-dah
Milk-bag suck it
Sing song Kitty won't you Ki-me-o
Milk in the dairy, nine days old.
Sing song, etc.
Frogs and skeeters getting mighty bold
Sing song, etc.
Frogs and skeeters getting mighty bold
Sing song, etc.
Their legs hung out for the chickens to roost
Sing song, etc.
3. Sing Song Kitty (Won't You Ki-Me-O) Frog/Froggie Went A-Courting,
Anthology of American Folk Music, Oak, Sof (1973), p 32
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O, Traditional Music in America,
Folklore Associates, Bk (1940/1965), p106b
(THE) KICKING MULE
Q: from A.C . Trying to find the words to a humorous song called "The
Kicking Mule." I found a recording in the Lomax collection, but the quality
was too poor to get it all. Could you help find these words
A: Here it is, from "The Folksongs of North America," by Alan Lomax,
1960, p441
The Kickin' Mule
As I went down to the huckleberry picnic
Dinner all over the ground
Skippers in the meat was nine foot deep
And the green flies walking all around.
The biscuits in the oven was a-baking,
Beefsteak frying in the pan,
Pretty gal sitting in the parlour,
Lord God A'mighty, what a hand I stand!
Chorus: Whoa there, mule, I tell you,
Miss Liza, you keep cool,
I ain't got time to kiss you now,
I'm busy with this mule.
✴My uncle had an old mule,
His name was Simon Slick,
'Bove anything I ever did see
Was how that mule could kick. [*see note below]
Went to feed that mule one morning
And he met me at the door with a smile,
He backed one ear and he winked one eye
And he kicked me half a mile. (CHO.)
The mule he am a kicker,
He's got an iron back,
He headed off a Texas railroad train
And kicked it off the track.
He kicked the feathers off a goose,
He pulverized a hog,
He kicked up three dead chinese mans
And swatted him a yellow dog. (CHO.)
When I seen Miss Dinah the other day,
She was bent all over her tub,
And the more I'd ask her to marry me,
Well, the harder she would rub,
Chorus: Well, whoa there, mule, I tell you,
Whoa there, mule, I say,
Just keep your seat, Miss Liza Jane,
And hold on to that sleigh.
[Ed Note:Can't remember where I learned my version of this verse, but it
goes like this:]
✴My uncle had an old mule,
His name was Simon Slick,
'The only thing I ever did see
Was how that mule could kick.
How that mule could kick,
Well, with his dyin' breath,
He shoved his hind legs down his throat,
And kicked himself to death!
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