Many different versions abound and can be found online! Here’s a cute one I learned (and adapted a little to make a counting song) from my daughter’s Brownie Troop: *  Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky (Counting Song or Circle Game) Traditional Words and Tune To view or print this song sheet, click here: down by the banks of the hanky panky If you need help with the tune, sing with Emily’s Scratch Guide: * Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky Participation Cards for SBWE Traditional Words and Tune Cards Coordinated by ELEG for SBWE To view or print these cards, click here: down by the banks participation cards for SBWE If you need help with the tune, sing with Emily’s Scratch Guide: For audience participation, ask for five or six volunteers (depending on if you want a child to represent zero, or if you’d rather have no kids standing to represent zero). Give each of the numbered cards to one of the volunteers. You can line up the children in number order, or they can stand in a random order (which would make it funnier when they sit down). You sing the version of the song with the numbers (going from 5 to zero). The child who has the number of the verse you are singing sits down on the word “KERPLOP.” The children will think this is funny. You keep singing until there are no kids left standing. ********************** DOWN BY THE
BANKS OF THE HANKY PANKY Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky ********************** This song is sung (and game played) by the Brownies of Troop 2740 by sitting in a circle and hands extended round in the circle. Each girl sits with right palm resting under the hand of the girl to her right and left hand resting on top of the hand to her left. When the song begins, one girl is designated to begin and on the first beat of the song she gently slaps the hand of the girl to her right with her left hand. Then, in turn, one at a time going around the circle (this would be counter-clockwise) when a girl’s left hand is gently slapped, she uses her left hand to gently slap the upturned palm of the girl to her right. The girl whose hand is slapped on the word “kerplop” is out and the game/song begins again and is played until the last girl/frog goes “kerplop.” ********************** To make this a counting song, replace “Where the” with 5 (or number for however many times you’re willing to sing the song), and in each subsequent verse, reduce the number by 1. When the group reaches zero, sing “No bullfrogs jump” and “Not one fell in and went kerplops.” It would go like this: DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE HANKY PANKY (COUNTING SONG) Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky Down by the banks of the Hanky Panky Etc… Last
verse: ********************** * * * * * ********************** I just got a request from a teacher to sing this at the school. So I finally created some cards for audience participation. * Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky Participation Cards for SBWE Traditional Words and Tune Cards Coordinated by ELEG for SBWE To view or print these cards, click here: down by the banks participation cards for SBWE If you need help with the tune, sing with Emily’s Scratch Guide: ********************** I’ve decided to fully embrace this little song and made a little guide vocal. My voice naturally wants to sing this in the key of A. I begin on the A below middle C. If you need help with the tune, sing with Emily’s Scratch Guide: ********************** ********************** * The info in this link makes a strong suggestion for the relationship between DOWN BY THE BANKS OF THE HANKY PANKY and FROGGIE WENT A COURTIN. ********************** * * * * * * * How do you play down by the Bank with 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.
How do you play down by the banks with two people?You start the song, and one person hits the right hand of the person on their left, and that person does the same to the next and so on until the song is over. The last person to have their hand hit is out, and the game goes on.
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