The Clapping Song

By Lincoln Chase

Recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1965

Three six nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
(And) they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap slap
Clap pat
Clap your hand, pat it on your partner’s hand
Right hand
Clap pat
Clap pat clap your hand, cross it with your left arm
Pat you partner’s left palm
Clap pat
Clap your hand, pat your partner’s right palm
With your right palm again
Clap slap
Clap your hand, slap your thighs
And sing a little song, go
My mother told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My aunty told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won’t buy me
A rubber dolly
Three six nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
(And) they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
Clap clap (clap your hands and prepare to pat)
Pat (take your right arm put your partner’s right palm with your right palm)
Clap (take your hand back and clap)
Pat (take your right arm, cross your right arm with your left arm
Pat your partner’s left palm with your left palm)
Clap (take your hand back and clap)
Pat (take your right arm, cross your left arm
Pat your partner’s right palm with your right palm)
Clap (now back, with a clap)
Slap (take the pats of your palms and slap your thighs
And watch the fun materialize
As you sing this little song)
My mother told me
If I was goody
That she would buy me
A rubber dolly
My aunty told her
I kissed a soldier
Now she won’t buy me
A rubber dolly
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap slap
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap pat
Clap slap

Clapping games

Handclapping: Chocolate

Chocolate
Choco, choco, la, la
Choco, choco, te, te
Choco, la, choco, te
Choco-choco-la-te

Gung Hay Fat Choy

A Season for Singing

by Nancy Stewart

I had a little puppy

I had a little puppy,
His name was Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim

He drank all the water,
He ate a bar of soap,
The next thing you know
It was halfway down his throat.

In jumps the doctor, (person jumps in)
In jumps the nurse,( person jumps in)
In jumps the lady
With the alligator purse (person jumps in)

Out jumps the doctor (person jumps out)
Out jumps the nurse (person jumps out)
Out jumps the lady
With the alligator purse (person jumps out)

Down down baby

Down down baby, down by the roller coaster
Sweet sweet baby, I’ll never let you go
Shimmy shimmy coca pop shimmy shimmy pow
Shimmy shimmy coco puff shimmy shimmy pow
Grandma grandma sick in bed, she called the doctor and the doctor said:
Let’s get the rhythm of the head, Ding Dong, get the rhythm of the head
Ding Dong
Let’s get the rhythm of the hands (clap twice), Let’s get the rhythm of the hands (clap twice)
Let’s get the rhythm of the feet (stomp twice), Let’s get the rhythm of the feet (stomp twice)
Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog (sway hips), Let’s get the rhythm of the hot dog (sway hips)
Put it all together and what do you get (repeat all in order)
Put it all backwards and what do you get (do all backwards)

Hot Dog

Miss Mary Mack

Audio: .ram, .wav

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
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 see the elephant, elephant, elephant
Jump the fence, fence fence

They jumped so high, high, high
They touched the sky, sky, sky
And didn’t come back, back, back
Till the fourth of July, July, July

America’s Story: Children’s Songs
Wikipedia: Possible Origins