Origins: Skinnamarink (Feist & Piantidosi, 1910)

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: RS
Date: 05 Sep 97 - 07:26 PM

Oops, my apologies, just found the answer to this question on the "Au Claire de la Lune - Lyr Add" thread.

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: RS
Date: 05 Sep 97 - 07:22 PM

To Peter T:

How did you make the line returns start a new line each time, without double spacing?

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: Earl
Date: 05 Sep 97 - 10:48 AM

Here's a cheer we did in Boy Scouts decades ago:

Troup 500, here we are, mahee maho mahi
With a rump-skinny-boomeranger-soapback-periwinkle-skinnamarinky-dinky-doodle-eye

Said as fast as possible, of course

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Sep 97 - 09:32 PM

Thanks, Peter. sound lie it's more suited for the Barney set, rather than for my sophisticated and urbane Cub Scouts :) - but it's an interesting little ditty nonetheless.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: Sheye
Date: 04 Sep 97 - 06:01 PM

There is a french version of this as well. Any parents know the words? Don't forget the spider; he is WAY cool, sez the 4-year-old.

Come clean Peter, we know you're a Elephant fan -- I'm sure I've seen your profile on the Frosted Flakes commercial.

Subject: LYR ADD: SKINNAMARINK
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Sep 97 - 05:22 PM

As requested:

SKINNAMARINK
(Sharon, Lois, & Bram)

Skinnamarinkydinkydink
Skinnamarinkydoo
I - Love - You!!

Skinnamarinkydinkydink
Skinnamarinkydoo
I - Love - You!!

I love you in the morning and in the afternoon
I love you in the evening, underneath the moon
Skinnamarinkydinkydink
Skinnamarinkydoo
I - Love - You!!

(final add. phrase:)
Skinnamarinkydoo, I - Love - You -- Too!!
(Boop, boop, ee-doo)

Chords (slash each line): G Gdim/G Gdim/ G Gdim D7/
Am7 D7 /Am7 D7/ Am7 D7 G/ (D7) G G7 C/A7 D D7/G Gdim/G E7/ A7 D7 G/ (final add. phrase:) G E7 A7 D7 G (D +7 G)

copyright 1985 by Grand Trunk Music: Sharon Hampson, Lois Lillienstein, and Bram Morrison.

The tune is a bit like a sliding vaudeville version of "Tea For Two", lots of rocking back and forth, canes out for the "I (beat, beat) Love (beat, beat) You". It is somewhat infectious (sort of like Barney vs. the Elephant (there is an Elephant on S, L, and Bram)). There are hand movements I have never learned, and I have never even seen the programme! I learned it at a campsing. I just know that when it is played, graduates of S,L, and B. light up and go to work. Vaudeville is not dead, it lives in the children's hour.
Yours, Peter