# What Piano Ditty Uses Knuckles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390 "2009-05-14T05:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/21 "2009-05-16T06:06:46Z")
Rather than wake my husband up in the dead of night with these chords on the piano, I will try them out first thing tomorrow. I think that is similar to what I use with “Chopsticks,” incorporating “The Knuckles Song.” There is a version of part of the main “Chopsticks” tune used on **A Charlie Brown Christmas** I thnk. Or maybe it’s not unique to that particular **PEANUTS** episode. The timing is slightly different. Think I will work it out with a the right bass to go with it. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/22 "2009-05-16T19:11:49Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > F# (A# C# F#) C# (A# C# F#) F# (A# C# F#) > C# D D# (G# C F#) G# (G# C F#) D# (G# C F#) > G# A# C# (B C# F) F (B C# F) C# (B C# F) F > C# D D# F F# F# F# So, did anybody try playing this? I’m sure if you did, you already knew it or had at least heard it, but still don’t know the name of the piece. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/23 "2009-05-20T00:32:12Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Wouldn’t D D# E F F# F# F# at the end would make more sense? It wouldn’t be the right tune, the way I learned it… ---
**Author:** ![news52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@news52](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/news52)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/24 "2011-07-30T23:54:20Z")
the song (knuckle song) is actually a song by the Dixie Belles called Down at Papa Joe’s ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/25 "2011-07-31T00:20:04Z")
We used to play it with an orange, rather than our knuckles. Just roll the orange down the black keys. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/26 "2011-07-31T00:40:52Z")
We used to just call it The Knuckle Song, same as almost everyone else who has posted. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/27 "2011-07-31T02:26:13Z")
> [@news52](#): > > the song (knuckle song) is actually a song by the Dixie Belles called Down at Papa Joe’s Just didn’t bother reading post #7, did we? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/28 "2011-07-31T03:31:09Z")
Yeah, it’s not a part of chopsticks. The part most people don’t know is just the following repeated twice (top and bottom notes at the same time): ```auto e|d,c|B,A|G,G|GAG|F,F|FGF|E c|B,A|G,F|E,E|EFE|D,D|DED|C ``` There’s a left hand part, that alternates between playing C and G7, in the form note-chord-chord note-chord-chord. Of course, none of that’s in the original, as it’s just a warm up excercise. But there’s no way switching from all white to all black keys would sound like the same piece (well, without some sort of transition.) I also learned a fuller version of the knuckle song, but I’m guessing I won’t have time to put it in an edit, so I’ll make a second post. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390/29 "2011-07-31T05:15:01Z")
Is this the extended version? [The Knuckle Song - piano duet Own-arrangement sheet music link - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlBDqlwg-go&feature=youtube_gdata_player) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-piano-ditty-uses-knuckles/496390.md?page=1)