![]() ![]() ![]() In this video, you can see more complex clapping pattern.Īnother famous clapping game is “Mary Mack.” The most common version goes: Sesame Street had a nice segment on teaching another child how to do the motions to “Down Down Baby,” another standard. Many also include near off-color jokes like this alternate version of “Miss Suzy” (one of many): In some versions, it’s conflated with “Miss Lucy,” (or Suzy, or other variant), to the same sing-song tune: In some versions, the boyfriend is seen kissing another girl, and the narrator ends the story with kicking the boyfriend down the stairs. In Israel, the boyfriend’s name is Chaim, which is made to rhyme with Jerusalem. An Australian version uses “Bush girl” instead of Dutch girl. It was popular all over the USA and England. In another, it’s a pimple instead of a pickle. With pickles for his toes and a cherry for his nose We used the same “Sailor” tune for “I Am a Pretty Little Dutch Girl”: I knew it was a play on the words see and sea, but mostly it was something to sing while we clapped. Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.Īt the time, I didn’t stop to think it was a song about a sailor drowning. When I was young, I liked to play clapping games like “A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea” and “I Am a Pretty Little Dutch Girl.” Here’s a simple version: ![]()
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