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  1. Easy Directions for basic hand clapping game: Sit across from your clapping partner. Begin by clapping your hands together at the same time, then reach out with your right hand to clap your partner's right hand. Next, clap your hands again. Now reach out with your left hand and clap your partner's left hand.
  2. Easy Directions for basic hand clapping game: Sit across from your clapping partner. Begin by clapping your hands together at the same time, then reach out with your right hand to clap your partner's right hand. Next, clap your hands again. Now reach out with your left hand and clap your partner's left hand. Miss Mary Mack Miss Mary Mack.
  3. Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack All dressed in black black black With silver button button buttons All down her back back back She asked her mother mother mother For fifty cent cent cents To see the elephant elephant elephants Jump the fence fence fence They jum.
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'Mary Mack' ('Miss Mary Mack') is a clapping game played by children in English-speakingcountries. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is well known in various parts of the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and in New Zealand and has been called 'the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world'.[1]

In the game, two children stand or sit opposite to each other, and claphands in time to a rhymingsong.

The same song is also used as a jumproperhyme,[2] although rarely so according to one source.[3]

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Miss Mary Mack and 42 Other Hand Clapping Games for Kids book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Aug 04, 2006  Miss Mary Mac Mac Mac. All dressed in black black black. With silver buttons buttons buttons. All down her back back back. She asked her mother mother mother. For fifty cents cents cents. To watch the elephants elephants elephants. Jump over the fence fence fence. They jumped so high high high. They touched the sky sky sky. Not sure of the. Children from around the world love hand clapping games!! How about a classic like Miss Mary Mack with a funny twist, as with so many clapping games the words often make no sense – perhaps that’s what makes them so fun. Another great one to try is the cup game.

Rhyme[edit]

Various versions of the song exist; a common version goes;

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back. (or 'Up and down her back back back')
She asked her mother, mother, mother
for fifty (or 15) cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants (or hippos or cows)
Jump the fence, fence, fence.
They jumped so high, high, high
they reached the sky, sky, sky
And didn't (or never) come back, back, back
Till the 4th of July ly ly.
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 5 cents more, more, more
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump the door, door, door.

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They jumped to the flow flow flow
they stubbed their toe toe toe
and that was the end end end
of the elephant show show show.

An alternate version, sung in Canada, includes the words:

She could not read, read, read
She could not write, write, write
But she could smoke, smoke, smoke
Her father’s pipe, pipe, pipe.

An alternate version, sung in the American South:

Mary Mack,
dressed in black,
silver buttons all down her back.
She combed her hair
and broke the comb
She's gonna get a whoopin' when her Momma comes home
Gonna get a whoopin' when her Momma comes home

Clap[edit]

Mac os download. A common version of the accompanying clap is as follows:

  • &: Arms across chest
  • 4: Pat thighs
  • &: Clap hands
  • 1: Clap right palms with partner
  • &: Clap left palms with partner
  • 2: Clap both palms with partner

Another version:[4]

  • &: One palm up, one palm down
  • 4: Clap both partners hands
  • &: Clap own hands
  • 1: Cross arms to chest
  • 2: Slap thighs
  • 3: Clap own hands

Another Version:

  • 4: Pat thighs
  • &: Clap hands
  • 1: Clap partners right hand
  • &: Clap hands
  • &: Clap partners left hand
  • &: Clap hands
  • 2: Clap both partners hands
  • &: Clap hands

Another Version:

  • &: One palm up, one palm down
  • 1: Clap both partners hands
  • &: Reverse hands
  • 2: Clap both partners hands
  • &: Clap own hands
  • 4: clap partners right hand
  • &: clap hands
  • 5: clap partners left hand
  • &: clap hands
  • 6: clap partners right hand
  • &: clap hands

repeat

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Possible origins[edit]

The first verse, the repetition, is also a riddle with the answer 'coffin'.[5]

Early mentions of the part about the elephant do not include the part about Mary Mack.[6][7]

Merrimack[edit]

The origin of the name Mary Mack is obscure, and various theories have been proposed. According to one theory, Mary Mack originally referred to the USS Merrimack, a United States warship of the mid-1800s named after the Merrimack River, that would have been black, with silvery rivets. This may suggest that the first verse refers to the Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.[citation needed]

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See also[edit]

  • 'Walking The Dog', a 1960s R&B song by Rufus Thomas with lyrics based on 'Mary Mack'.
  • 'Witchcraft (Book of Love song)', a song from the Pop group, Book of Love, with a reference to 'Mary Mack'.
  • 'Tobacco Origin Story', a poem by Joy Harjo, refers to the song twice in a prominent way.

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References[edit]

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  1. ^Gaunt, Kyra Danielle. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-hop. NYU Press. p. 63. ISBN0-8147-3120-1. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  2. ^Gaunt, Games Black Girls Play, p. 68
  3. ^Cole, Joanna (1989). Anna Banana: 101 Jump-rope Rhymes. HarperCollins. p. 13. ISBN0-688-08809-0. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  4. ^Bernstein, Sara (1994). Hand Clap!, p.88-9. ISBN1-55850-426-5. Rhythm not provided.
  5. ^Odum, Howard W. (1928). Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (2006 ed.). Indiana University Press. p. 33. ISBN0-253-21854-3. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
  6. ^Heath, Lilian M. (1902). Eighty Good Times Out of Doors. Fleming H. Revell Co. p. 186. Retrieved 2011-04-08. elephant jump the fence.
  7. ^Day, Holman F. (1905). Squire Phin: A Novel. A. L. Burt Co. p. 21. Retrieved 2011-04-08.

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