If-ika You-ika

DESCRIPTION: "If-ika you-ika can-ika swim-ika Li-ika my-ika son-ika John-ika, I-ika will-ika give-ika you-ika Bob-ika" (or, perhaps, "give-ika you-ika a shilling")
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Brady-AllInAllIn)
KEYWORDS: wordplay money | swimming
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brady-AllInAllIn, pp. 172-173, "If-ika" (1 short text)
Roud #38131
NOTES [73 words]: A sort of a primitive code talk, obviously less effective than Pig Latin, but also easier. Of course, it's also more easily penetrated. A better trick would be to have more nonsense syllables -- e.g., in addition to "-ika," one might have "-awee," "-epa," "omeh," and "uda" (choose your consonants here), so that the song might begin "If-ika you-awee can-epa swim-omeh." That ought to give foreign spies something to think about.... - RBW
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