And apparently it also spun off a lullaby and child's play verse.

"Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes" by Iona and Peter Opie:

Hokey, pokey, whisky, thum,
How d'you like potatoes done?
Boiled in whisky, boiled in rum,
Says the King of the Cannibal Islands.

Heard sung as a lullaby in 1947, and also known as a school song and counting-out rhyme, the lines are evidently a somewhat rationalised memory of the chorus of a popular comic song "The King of the Cannibal Islands" written about 1830 by A. W. Humphreys and 'Sung by him with great applause at the London Concerts':

Oh, have you heard the news of late,
About a mighty King so great?
If you have not, 'tis in my pate––
The King of the cannibal islands.

He was so tall––near six feet six,
He had a head like Mister Nick's,
His palace was like Dirty Dick's,
'Twas built of mud for want of bricks,
And his name was poonoo winkewang,
Flibeedee-flobeedee-buskeebang;
And a lot of the Indians swore they'd hang,
The King of the cannibal islands.

(Chorus)

Hokee pokee wonkee fum,
Puttee po pee kaihula cum,
Tongaree, wongaree, ching ring wum,
The King of the Cannibal Islands

And again another version (just for fun):

Hoky poky, winky wum,
How do you like your 'taters done?
Snip snap snorum, High popolorum.
Kate go scratch it, You are out!.

(from http://fracman.home.mchsi.com/works/lion/LION.89_28-36.90_01-33.part1.doc.)

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