(written in ‘2008’)
(recorded latest version in ‘fall 2011’)
(i knicked this off a ‘nursery rhyme’)
(so sue me ‘mother goose’)
(skiddamarinky dinky dink)
(skiddamarinky doo)
(i…love…you…)
(a video cheryl used to play for me when i was 4 years old)
(“skidamarink” or skinnamarink is a popular preschool song)
(originally titled “Skid-dy-mer-rink-adink-aboomp” or “Skiddy-Mer-Rink-A-Doo“, the initial version of the song was written by ‘felix f. feist’ (lyrics) and ‘al piantadosi’ (music) for the 1910 ‘charles dillingham’ broadway production “the echo”)
(since the title is ‘gibberish’, it has had various spellings over the years.
(the song began appearing on many song collections for children’s shows in the ‘1980s’)
(the most popular versions were by the australian show bananas in pyjamas, and the canadian show ‘the elephant show’)
(several years after the conclusions of ‘the elephant show, in the ‘late 1990s’, the original performers on that show, ‘sharon’, ‘lois’ & ‘bram’, briefly had their own show, titled ‘skinnamarink TV’)
(it now appears in the advertisement of ‘bose’ music systems’)
(“skidamarink” appears in an advertisement for the ‘chevrolet cruze’ in the ‘united states’)
(otto brandenburg’s danish christmas song ‘søren banjomus’, is based on “Skidamarink”, with accompanying “danglified” versions of the gibberish)
lyrics
skidamarink a-dink, a-dink,
skidamarink a-doo,
I love you… (2x)
I love you in the morning,
And in the afternoon;
I love you in the evening,
And underneath the moon.
Oh, skidamarink a-dink, a-dink,
Skidamarink a-doo,
I love you.
Another version goes like this:
Skinnymarink e-dink e-dink,
Skinnymarink e-do,
I love you. (x2)
I love you in the morning,
And I love you in the night,
I love you in the evening,
When the stars are shining bright
Oh, Skinnymarink e-dink e-dink,
Skinnymarink e-do,
i…love…you…
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