This Old Man (I)

DESCRIPTION: "This old man, he played one, He played knick-knack on my thumb, With a knick-knack, paddy wack, Give the dog a bone, This old man went rolling home." Similarly, "This old man, he played two, he played knick-knack on my shoe," and on upward
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida)
KEYWORDS: nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE) Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Morris-FolksongsOfFlorida, #114, "Knick Knack" (1 text)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 390, "This Old Man" (1 text)
Peacock, p. 21, "Old Tommy Kendal" (1 text, 1 tune)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 385, 517, "This Old Man" (notes only)
SongsOfAllTime, p. 72, "This Old Man" (1 text, 1 tune)
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, pp. 56-57, "This Old Man" (1 text)
Abrahams-JumpRopeRhymes, #386, "My old man number one" (1 text)
DT, THOLDMAN*
Roud #3550
RECORDINGS:
Charlotte Decker, "Old Tommy Kendal" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
Pete Seeger, "This Old Man" (on PeteSeegeer3, PeteSeegerCD03)
SAME TUNE:
All Gaul ["Cognac, Armagnac, Burgundy and Beaune, This old man thinks he's Saint Joan"; Charles de Gaulle song] [by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann] [from "At the Drop of Another Hat"]
File: FSWB390C

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