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Thread #27634 Message #4176168
Posted By: GUEST,Hannah
06-Jul-23 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: a song called alla balla (children's rhyme?)
Subject: RE: a song called alla balla (children's rhyme?)
Picking up on this old thread. My grandmother (English but born 1917 in Hong Kong) taught me this version:
Alla balla tingle, old John Calabar
Alla balla, walla balla, ooh yah yah!
Cha-weeee, cha-weeee
Cha woppa dicca woppa laaa!
Alla balla, walla balla, ooh yah yah!
So wish I had thought to ask her the origin before she got dementia and passed away. If anyone has any info I would love to know.