ID: 158 Date: 1990s - 2006 Title: Down by the banks Gender: Female Classification: Clapping Rhyme: Down by the banks of the Hankie Pankie, Where the bull frogs jump from bank to bank, Singing oh ah oh ah. My name is high low jigalow, jigalow, high low. (Upper Hutt, 2004) -- Down by the river of the hankie bankie bank, Bull frogs jump from bank to bankie bank, A, B, C.. (finger wrestling game) (Ashburton, 2006) -- Down by the banks of the hanky panky, The bullfrogs jump from bank to bank. With a hip hop fraggle, waggle pop, With a hip hop fraggle, waggle pop. (Tauranga, 2000) -- Down by the banks of the hanky panky, The bullfrog jumped from bank to banky With a eep ip curly flop, With a eep ip curly flop, (Northland, 1990s) -- Down by the river with the hanky panky, Gonna flip flop slip slop haggy baggy. Gonna flip flop slip slop, Down by the river with a flip flop. (Whakatane, 2000) -- Down by the banks of the hanky panky, The bullfrogs jump from bank to bank. With a hip hop turtle flop, (crackle pop) With a hip hop turtle flop, (crackle pop) (NZ ex Australia, 1990s; Greytown, 2002) -- Down by the banks of the hanky panky, The bullfrogs jump from bank to bank. With a hip hip hop, a crackle and a pop! One day when I was walking, I saw my boyfriend talking to a little old lady with chocolate curls. And this is what she told him: I l. o. v. e. love you, I k. i. s. s. kiss you. I jumped in a lake and swallowed a snake, And ended up with a belly ache. (Auckland, 2000) -- Down by the banks of the hanky panky, Where bullfrogs leap from bank to banky, With a hip hip hie hoe, Catch a Mr Prizzie and say hello. Hip hop ca plop, Hip hop full stop. (NZ, 1990s) -- Down by the river, Hanky panky, Two fat frogs, Hanky panky, Who's in? Sue's in. Dow by the river, in the pond. (Auckland, 1990s) -- Down by the river of the Hanky Panky Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank, Singing A, E, I, O, U. (A, B, C) (Auckland, 1993; Christchurch, 2000; Christchurch, 2001; Christchurch, 2003) -- Down by the bushes of the Panky Wanky Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky, With a hip hop, turtle pop, With a hip hop, turtle pop, ya. (Whangaparaoa, 2000) -- Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky, Singing E, I, O, U. My mother stinks and so do you., Ping, pang, pong. (Wellington, 2003 x2) -- Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky, With an ee, ah, oo, pop, And a shoop-shoop, shimmy-shimmy, bee bop. (Christchurch, 2000) -- Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky Where the bullfrogs sway from side to side. With an a, e, i, o, u. (Christchurch, 2000) -- Background Info: Played as a group hand-clapping game with children forming a circle and the 'clap' being passed around the circle as the rhyme is sung. (Personal observation) == Bauer, 2002, Sect.70:15, recorded four versions of this rhyme from Auckland, Tauranga, Christchurch, Hamilton. Variations to endings include: With a hip hop and a paddle and a pop. ((Auckland) With a hip hop don't stop, with a hip hop full stop, (Tauranga) With a hip hop giggle pop, with a hip hop full stop. (Hamilton) Singing AEIOU. (Christchurch) and the accompanying description - you have to have one person with the palm of their hands facing upwards and the other person's facing downwards, so both hands can clap and sway. == Possible connections with May Irwin's "Frog Song", by Charles E. Trevathan, 1896, which began with the words: Away down a-yonder in Yankety Yank, A bullfrog jumped from bank to bank. 'Cause there wasn't nothin' else to do. He stubbed his toe an' in he fell, An' de neighbours all say dat he went to well, 'Cause he hadn't nothing else to do. From website www.mudcat.org (accessed 15 January, 2007) == Location: Various NZ Group size: 6 Incidence: 19