There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

DESCRIPTION: "There's a hole in the bottom of the sea, There's a hole (x2), There's a hole in the bottom of the sea." "There's a rock in the bottom of the sea... There's a rock in that hole in the bottom of the sea." "There's a frog in the bottom of the sea."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Brown)
KEYWORDS: nonballad cumulative campsong
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 135, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" (1 text)
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5 135, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" (1 tune plus a text excerpt)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Gloria Dickens, "Childhood Songs from North Carolina" Vol. XXI, No. 1 (Apr 1973), p. 8, "(There's a hole in the bottom of the sea)" (1 text)
LibraryThingCampSongsThread, post 71, "(There's a hole in the bottom of the sea)" (1 excerpt, from user Tess_W, posted September 1, 2021)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 392, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" (notes only)
Roud #15766
RECORDINGS:
Sue Armstrong, "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" (Piotr-Archive #682, recorded 09/19/2023)
Logan Boyd Carithers, "Frog at the Bottom of the Lake" (Piotr-Archive #552, recorded 04/05/2023)
File: Br3135

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