Follow-up to The Winkle Song from Casey’s Blog
I’ve got a fragment of a saying or a line of poetry stuck in my head.
Actually it’s two – one was a couplet which my Grandma used to chant to my sister:
Skinny Malinky Longlegs,
Big Banana feet
(Always prefixed by Anna-Karana)
The other is something that I’m sure my Mum used to say to me when I was little (I must ask her).
It went:
Something, something, something,
Not even a sailor’s friend.
and it referred to when I was scruffy or dishevelled.
I’ve tried googling the second one – but I just can’t find it…
Your post’s reminded me of a rhyme my granddad used to sing to me when I wouldn’t get up for school in the mornings as a child:
“Lazybones sleeping in the sun
How you going to get your day’s work done
Sleeping in the midday sun.”
I don’t know the rhymes you’re referring to though.
I
know the first one but I cannot remember either where from or anymmore
of it. Sorry, I can only confirm you’re not making it all up.
isn’t it: ‘no good to anyone, not even a sailor’s friend?’.
ask Mumrah Leaver.
Ah – Mumra has been in touch by email.
It is:
I’m currently interrogating her to find out why…
Hmm. I’ve heard the first one as ’skinny malink malonjin legs, big banana feet’. God, Ireland’s weird.
Actually – you are dead right – maa-loh-gin legs. Yes. I know that version too.
(Don’t laugh at my attempt to spell that phoenetically.)
skinny
ma linky long legs,big bannana feet,went to the doctors but couldnt get
a seat,something something something but nothing could be done all
because..something something something…thats all i can remember…now its
driving me nuts! lol..