"Go down to the river where the water is nice. Put your head under three times and pull it out twice."

Question

Who said this?

Answer 1

It's an old, unattributed verse, very similar in meaning to 'go soak your head", "go jump in the lake" or "go and take a long walk on a short pier".

It was also used as a poem that was often written in the autograph books that  kids collected in the 1950's.