# anyone know this poem? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322 "2003-11-14T22:03:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hawkeyejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/1 "2003-11-14T22:03:07Z")
I had this poem in my seventh grade english book, but i have never found it anywhere since. I remember bits and pieces, and couldn’t find anything on the net. Anyone ever read this poem and remember all of it? - Okee Pokee Chinga ma ring 18th wife of the mighty king loved her Lord above everything and so she dressed him out for the party satins and silks the queen did lack but she had some red paint that looked well on black so she painted her lord and masters back and dressed him out for the party . . . Oka Poka crack me crown King of the island Gulp-em-down . . \* something like that ---
**Author:** ![adirondack\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@adirondack\_mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adirondack_mike)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/2 "2003-11-14T23:06:30Z")
WAG - Walt Kelly creator of the Pogo comic strip. ---
**Author:** ![daniel801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@daniel801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daniel801)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/3 "2003-11-15T00:04:06Z")
This article mentions it; maybe a starting point for further research. [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/20/stories/2003052000290200.htm](http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/20/stories/2003052000290200.htm) ---
**Author:** ![RussYetna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@RussYetna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussYetna)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/4 "2017-01-11T03:38:20Z")
i thought she was Hoopla Hoopla Hoopla Ring? …then you’re on to it- …satins and silks the queen did lack but she had some red paint that looked well on black. So painted up til he looked his best with pipe in mouth and feather in crest Hokey Pokey(?) walked out with neither coat not vest yet in full dress for the party …something like that!? (I’m a 1951 vintage so that’s from early days at school also, but would like to recall it all somehow, out of curiosity…) Cheers… Russ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/5 "2017-01-11T04:05:47Z")
[Here it is.](http://peeves-poems.blogspot.com/2011/06/okee-pokee.html) Said to be an anonymous work, apparently known mostly or wholly from school anthologies. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/6 "2017-01-11T13:00:45Z")
I have never in my life heard this poem, or heard of it, or had any inkling of its existence. Another odd bit of Americana\* I never encountered. Where was this told? Is it a regionalism? \*I assume. For all I know, it’s international. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-this-poem/213322/7 "2017-01-11T21:09:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I have never in my life heard this poem, or heard of it, or had any inkling of its existence. Another odd bit of Americana\* I never encountered. > […] > > \*I assume. For all I know, it’s international. Most of the references I’ve seen to it appear to attribute it to English-medium schoolbooks in India. I certainly never came across it in any US educational context (not that my personal experience is definitive, of course).