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"Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game of unknown origin. 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.
Mary Mack's mother's making Mary Mack marry me, My mother's making me marry Mary Mack. I'm gonna marry Mary so my Mary will take care O' me, We'll all be feeling merry when I marry Mary Mack. Now there's a nice wee lass and her name is Mary Mack, Make no mistake she's the girl I gonna take, And a lot of other fella's would get upon her track,
A clapping game (or hand game) is a type of usually cooperative (i.e., non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping as a rhythmic accompaniment to a singing game or reciting of a rhyme, often nursery rhymes. Clapping games are found throughout the world and similar games may be known throughout large ...
This allows for a possibly complex sequence of clapping that must be coordinated between the two. If told by a parent to a child, the "B" and "baby" in the last two lines are sometimes replaced by the child's first initial and first name. [2] The "pat-a-cake" song and clapping game was used by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in their series of "Road ...
Mushi-ken, a Japanese hand game (1809) Hand games are games played using only the hands of the players. [1] Hand games exist in a variety of cultures internationally, and are of interest to academic studies in ethnomusicology and music education. [1] [2] Hand games are used to teach music literacy skills and socio-emotional learning in ...
The 2007 release of In the Schoolyard features all the same familiar songs, clapping rhymes, playground games and schoolyard jokes from the original 1981 release plus a bonus coloring page. [2] 1981 (Elephant/A&M Records) (CANADA/USA) Available on Record & Cassette 2007/2008 (Casablanca Kids Inc.) (CANADA) Available on CD
The sound of Paul McCartney and Wings' “One Hand Clapping” used to only be heard on bootlegs, or in snippets available on archival releases over the years. As aging rockers empty their vaults ...
The rhyme is arranged in quatrains, with an ABCB rhyme scheme. The rhyme is organized by its meter, a sprung rhythm in trimeter. [13] Accentual verse (including sprung rhythm) is a common form in English folk verse, including nursery rhymes and jump-rope rhymes. The rhyme approaches taboo words, only to cut them off and modify them with an ...