On 8/13/07 7:06 PM, Malvary J Cole wrote:
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For 50 cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
Mom used to sing
Oh, ASK your mother for fifty cents
to see the elephant climb the fence
the higher he
Joy Malvary,
This is getting really intriguing. For while I have never heard of
either of your rhymes, the Australian version is obviously somehow a
derivation. Ours went:-
Ask your mother for sixpence
To see the big giraffe
With pimples on his whiskers,
And pimples on his sK
: Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:08 PM
Subject: [lace-chat] MORE Childhood Rhymes Chants
Hello all,
No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This
was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their
hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse
Hello all,
No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late 60's). This
was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and clapped their hands
together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack,
Had silver buttons all down her
back, back,
A clapping song that I remember; taught to me by my mother who knew it
from her childhood, 1930s.
My mother said,
I never should,
Play with the gypsies
In the woods.
If I did,
She would say
Naughty bad girl
To disobey.
Brenda
On 12 Aug 2007, at 18:08, H. Muth wrote:
No one has mentioned one
Heather,
No one has mentioned one I remember from my childhood (late
60's). This was a 'clapping' song - two girls faced one another and
clapped their hands together, crossing arms etc in a pattern. The verse was:
Miss Mary Mack, Mack Mack,
Had silver buttons all down her
back, back,
