I Wear My Pink Pajamas

DESCRIPTION: "I wear my pink pajamas in the summer when it's hot, I wear my woolen nightie in the winter when it's not, And sometimes in the springtime, and sometimes in the fall, I slip between the covers with nothing on at all. Glory, glory, what's it to ya?..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1913 (Cleveland [Ohio] Plain Dealer, May 23, 1913, according to Johathan Lighter)
KEYWORDS: clothes humorous derivative campsong
FOUND IN: US(MW) Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 72, "I Wear My pink pyjamas in the summertime" (1 text)
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 34, "My Pink Pajamas" (2 texts, tune referenced)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 101, 167, 289, "I Wear My Pink Pajamas" (notes only)
BoyScoutSongbook1997, p. 40, "Pink Pajamas" (1 text, tune referenced)
DT, PINKPAJ
Roud #10311
RECORDINGS:
Judy Cook, "Pink Pajamas" (Piotr-Archive #377, recorded 12/07/2022)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "John Brown's Body" (tune) and references there
cf. "Oh, Sir Jasper" (lyrics)
cf. "The Merry Widow" (tune of Alice Kane's version)
NOTES [109 words]: Roud lumps this with "Oh, Sir Jasper." I don't.
Jonathan Lighter found three different pre-World War II versions in newspapers, the earliest being from 1913. This hints at oral transmission at quite an early date. The list so far:
Cleveland [Ohio] Plain Dealer, May 23, 1913, p. 14. (Essentially the same as the version in the description except that it's a "flannel nightie" in line two and the singer "creep(s)" between the covers in line four.)
[Little Rock] Arkansas Democrat, May 15, 1913, p. 6. The singer "dive(s)" between the covers.
Wilkes-Barre [Pennsylvania] Times-Leader, December 3, 1932, p. 20. A reference with only a partial text. - RBW
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