Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell

Subject: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,Frankie5Angels
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 01:51 PM

Hi

Looking for the lyrics and origin of a song I only remember 2 lines of..

"3 little monkeys in a peanut shell
one can sing one can dance one can make me a pair of pants.."

Something along those lines..

I remember it as a kid so it's probably a childrens song..

Thanks for any help..

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: open mike
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 11:50 AM

sounds like a jump rope rhyme
this thread has links

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,pbow
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 01:50 PM

The way I remember it from my youth was... whenever you found a peanut with three nuts in the shell, you needed to sing the little ditty for good luck. The song went:

"I know something I won't tell Three little peanuts in one shell One can sing and one can dance one can wear a pair of pants.

Shave and a hair cut... two bits."

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,Siochain
Date: 02 Mar 12 - 05:56 PM

I have words, though my version has rabbits, not monkeys. I know it as a spoken verse, not a song. I do not know the origin.

I know something I won't tell,
Three little rabbits in a peanut shell.
One can sing, one can dance,
One can sew a pair of pants.

I recite this rhythmically with/for young children using hand motions. i repeat, each time leaving off a line, mouthing the unspoken words and continuing the hand motions. After the whole verse has been done wordlessly, I repeat a final time with a louder voice.

Siochain

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,SONG PERSON
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 10:59 AM

Personaly i learned this in third grad my vesion goes



i know something i cant tell three little monkeys in a peanut shell on can sing onecan write and one can cook with a big stove pipe.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,#
Date: 29 Apr 15 - 04:58 PM

I Know Something

I know something,
But I won't tell.
Three little monkeys,
in a peanut shell.
One can read,
And one can dance,
And one has a hole,
in the seat of his pants!

from

http://www.buyjumpropes.net/resources/jump-rope-rhymes-songs-buyjumpropesnet/

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 03:07 PM

I remember a similar rhyme from a nursery school in the mid 1960's:
I've got a secret I can't tell
Three little peanuts in a peanut shell
I can't tell, I can't tell,
three little peanuts in a peanut shell.

There were two additional versus, I don't remember the second, but the last was:
Why does the witch fly on her broom
back and forth in front of the moon
I know why, I know why,
to sweep the cobwebs out of the sky

I've been looking for the entire song for more than 30 years and am starting to think that this nursery school outside of Portland, OR may have written this tune themselves for the children there.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Sep 18 - 12:37 AM

I know something I cant tell three little monkeys in a peanut shell one can read and one can write and one can smoke a corn cob pipe.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 20 - 08:18 PM

I remember it as
I know something I won’t tell,
3 monkeys in a peanut shell,
One can read,
One can write,
One can smoke a cracker pipe

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 02:06 PM

My son just learned in music class:
I know something I won’t tell
Three little monkeys in a peanut shell
One can read and one can write
And one can smoke a corncob pipe

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,cnd
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 03:06 PM

I believe I have slightly more information about this rhyme in Ethel Park Richardson's American Mountain Songs, but I'm currently not in possession of my copy. I'll see if it's actually there in a few weeks when I get my book back

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: cnd
Date: 21 Jan 21 - 09:22 PM

I was mistaken; that book doesn't have this rhyme in it

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,:)
Date: 20 Mar 25 - 06:48 AM

I’ve got a secret
I wont tell
Three little monkeys in a peanut shell
One can sing
And one can dance
One can mend a pair of pants

Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell my secret

Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell my secret

Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell
Dontcha tell my secret

Three little monkeys in a peanut shell

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Monkeys in a peanut shell
From: GUEST,:)
Date: 20 Mar 25 - 06:50 AM

At least that is how my mother sang it.