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Thread #8164   Message #1360913
Posted By: Celtaddict
19-Dec-04 - 12:08 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tondaleo....Tangaleo...??? (Tingalayo)
Subject: RE: Tondaleo....Tangaleo...??? (Tingalayo -Tinga Layo)
This was common at Girl Scout camps in Oklahoma in the late fifties into early sixties, and was sung as "Tingalayo" but with the refrain "Come, little donkey, come" as in the 1943 Patterson-Belasco translated version posted by Q, not "run" as Joe Offer uses. We did not have as many verses as Joe Offer, but did sing "My donkey walk, my donkey talk, my donkey eat with a knife and fork" which we made rhyme (odd in Oklahoma dialect) and "My donkey sleep, my donkey eat, my donkey kick with his two hind feet."