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Children'southward clapping game

"Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game played past children in English-speaking countries. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was nerveless in Westward 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 mutual hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world".^[1]

In the game, 2 children stand or sit down opposite to each other, and clap hands in time to a rhyming song.

The same vocal is also used equally a jumprope rhyme,^[2] although rarely so according to 1 source.^[3]

Rhyme [edit]

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

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack

All dressed in blackness, black, blackness

With silver buttons, buttons, buttons

All downwards her back, back, dorsum (or "Up and down her back, back, back")

She asked her mother, mother, female parent

For 50 cents, cents, cents

To see the elephants, elephants, elephants

Jump over the debate, contend, argue

They jumped so high, high, high

They reached the sky, sky, sky

And didn't (or never) come dorsum, back, back (or come up down, down, down)

Till the 4th of July ly ly

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

She could non read, read, read

She could not write, write, write

But she could smoke, fume, smoke

Her father's pipage, pipe, pipe

An alternating version, sung in the American South:

Mary Mack,

Dressed in black,

Silver buttons all down her dorsum.

She combed her hair

And bankrupt the comb

She'south gonna go a whoopin' when her Momma comes habitation

Gonna go a whoopin' when her Momma comes dwelling house

Clap [edit]

A common version of the accompanying clap is as follows:

• pat arms beyond chest: Artillery beyond breast
• pat thighs: Pat thighs
• clap hands: Clap hands
• clap right hands together: Clap right palms with partner
• clap left easily together: Clap left palms with partner
• handclapping both mitt together

Clap both palms with partner

Some other version:^[4]

• &: One palm up, i palm downwardly
• 4: Clap both partners hands
• &: Clap own hands
• i: Cross arms to chest
• 2: Slap thighs
• three: Clap own easily

Another Version:

• 4: Pat thighs
• &: Clap hands
• one: Clap partners right hand
• &: Clap hands
• &: Clap partners left paw
• &: Clap hands
• 2: Clap both partners hands
• &: Handclapping easily

Another Version:

• &: 1 palm upward, one palm down
• 1: Clap both partners easily
• &: Opposite hands
• 2: Clap both partners easily
• &: Clap own hands
• four: clap partners right manus
• &: clap hands
• v: clap partners left hand
• &: clap hands
• 6: clap partners correct mitt
• &: clap hands

repeat

Possible origins [edit]

The first poetry, the repetition, is also a riddle with the respond "bury".^[5]

Early mentions of the part virtually the elephant practice not include the office well-nigh Mary Mack.^{[six] [seven]}

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 argent rivets. This may advise that the get-go verse refers to the Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.^{[ commendation needed ]}

See also [edit]

• "Walking The Dog", a 1960s R&B song past Rufus Thomas with lyrics based on "Mary Mack".
• "Witchcraft (Book of Love song)", a vocal from the Pop group, Book of Honey, with a reference to "Mary Mack".
• "Tobacco Origin Story", a poem past Joy Harjo, refers to the song twice in a prominent way.
• "DemiRep", a song from the punk stone band, Bikini Kill, with "Mary Mack" included in the vocal

References [edit]

1. ^ Gaunt, Kyra Danielle. The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-hop. NYU Printing. p. 63. ISBN0-8147-3120-1 . Retrieved 2011-04-08 .
2. ^ Gaunt, Games Black Girls Play, p. 68
3. ^ Cole, Joanna (1989). Anna Assistant: 101 Jump-rope Rhymes. HarperCollins. p. 13. ISBN0-688-08809-0 . Retrieved 2011-04-08 .
4. ^ Bernstein, Sara (1994). Hand Clap!, p.88-nine. ISBN 1-55850-426-5. Rhythm not provided.
5. ^ Odum, Howard W. (1928). Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (2006 ed.). Indiana Academy Press. p. 33. ISBN0-253-21854-3 . Retrieved 2011-04-08 .
6. ^ Heath, Lilian 1000. (1902). 80 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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