I learned "Stodola Pumpa" at Girl Scout Camp in Oklahoma around 1960ish. We sang the version Joe Offer posted, exactly, except that we sang "beside my sweetheart gay." I seem to recall being told it was a work song of some description, spinning I believe, in which the wildly different tempos of verse and chorus as described by Mark Cohen were related to two different moves involved in the task. Does anyone know anything about that aspect?