Viral Video: You must have heard the poem ‘Johnny Johny Yes Papa’ in your childhood, but had you ever heard anyone singing it in a classical style? If you haven’t heard, a wonderful video is going viral on social media, which is being liked and posted by many social media users.
‘Johnny Johny Yes Papa’ is a poem which has been taught to children in schools for many decades. This four line poem is also easy to remember. And there’s a lesson in this about getting caught lying. You must have seen children reciting this poem many times. But some people can be seen singing this poem on social media, and the way they are reciting it with the Jugalbandi of Tabla-Harmonium, the netizens have gone crazy about it.
This video is a classical music version of the poem ‘Johnny Johny’. It can be seen in the video that a person is sitting in the middle, who is taking notes and alap while singing a poem. A person sitting on one side of it is playing the harmonium, while the person sitting on the other side is playing the tabla. Two people are seen sitting behind him, who are supporting him in the song and singing the chorus.
Style is different
This video has been shared on microblogging site ‘X’ with the handle ‘Ashok Kumar Pandey’. This six-minute long video has been captioned, “Aaj Tak Aapne Isse Andaz Me Johnny Johnny Yes Papa Nahi Suna Mustafa”. People are liking the combination of tune and rhythm in this children’s poem. Netizens say that if they had got this video in their childhood, they would not have had to put so much effort in memorizing the poem.
Users made funny comments
Within a few hours of the video being shared, it has been viewed more than 42 thousand times. People are not able to stop themselves from reacting to the new version of the poem. One user wrote, ‘Oh wow, what a creativity, it was fun listening to it’. Another user wrote, ‘By the time this song ended, Johnny had successfully eaten 10 chocolate bars’. The third wrote, ‘After a long time, a great video, entertaining as well as humorous as well as creative.’ One person commented, ‘Within a few days this will also be included in the category of bhajan’.
