Come and sing the simple song of Freedom

And he keeps it

Splash splash, I was takin’ a bath

Splish splash, I was taking a bath

If I were A carpenter, and you were a lady?
Would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?

I had been a reader of the 'Peanuts' comic strip for years by the time I first heard this song on the radio. I know Darin wasn't singing about the Peanuts characters (and I understand his version was a particularly liberal translation), and the very idea of Lucy marrying Charlie Brown... Good Grief!

Well, thank you captain obvious.

This song came out in 1933, and has been done by various artists, notably including Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole. I've cited the Bobby Darin version (which came out in 1966) because the submission form is still not set up to cite a proper decade for performances before the 1950s or after 2009. I know what a honky-tonk is, and I know what a parade is. But mix the two, and I draw a blank on what the term might mean. I've looked up "honky-tonk parade" and most of the hits are for this line in this song. So this song seems to be the origin of the term and offers no explanation therein as to what a honky-tonk parade might be. The principal exception I found to those hits is a song named "Honky Tonk Parade", written and recorded by Billy Gilman. Billy Gilman wasn't born until 1988. So however clever his song may be, it is at best an attempted explanation after the fact when it comes to trying to explain a baffling phrase in a song that first came out in 1933. In fact, Gilman's song makes several references to things all predated by any 1933 song, including Disneyland, Spiderman, and Snoopy.

Lotte Lenya was an Eastern European actress. She appeared in one of the early James Bond films.

"Lollipop" by the Chordettes; "Peggy Sue" by Buddy Holly; and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" by Little Richard

Holy Crackers! The song is about a serial killer! And to think that i used to dance to this song! ( eek! )

It's a swingin' Vegas lounge-style song about a serial killer; it ended up becoming a Number One hit for Darin.

The song is about a 9-year-old girl whose parents die an untimely death, leaving their daughter to fend for herself making artificial flowers for a living. This has a Vegas lounge-style swing sound similar to "Mack the Knife."

"Splish" and "splash" imitate the sound of water being used when taking a bath.

There's a bug tote, huh, huh, down by the river dontcha know.

A very early reference to "American Bandstand."