Yo Ho, Yo Ho, The Frisky Plank

DESCRIPTION: "Yo ho, you ho, the frisky plank, You walks along it so, Till it goes down and you go down To Davy Jones below."
AUTHOR: presumably J. M. Barrie
EARLIEST DATE: 1983 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: pirate death
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 165, "Yoho, yoho, the frisky plank" (1 text)
Roud #25404
NOTES [34 words]: Obviously not a real pirate song; it's from "Peter Pan." The version of the book that I've seen puts it in Chapter 15, "Hook Or Me This Time"; in at least one version of the play, it's in Act V, Scene 1.- RBW
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