*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 fifteen cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants elephants, elephants,
Jump the fence, fence, fence.

They jumped so high, high, high,
They touched the sky, sky, sky,
And they never came back, back, back,
'Til the fourth of July, July, July.

And they never came back, back, back,
'Til the fourth of July, July July. *(this final repetitive phrase is
                                      said in a whisper,

**we clap on the 3 repetitve words at the end of each phrase.

Miss Mary Mack  version 2

Mary Mack
Dressed in black
Buttons all up and down her back.

Hi-oh, hi-oh, hi-oh hi-oh

She went to the river
Couldn't get across
Jumped on an alligator
Thought it was a horse.

Hi-oh, hi-oh, hi-oh, hi-oh.

Give me a nickel
Give me a dime
Be my honeybaby all the time!

hi-oh, hi-oh, hi-oh hi-oh!

*Miss, miss.
Little miss, miss.
When she misses,
She misses like this.                  (* Calls for fast turning *)
 
I know a woman
And her name is Miss
And all of a sudden
She goes like this.                    (* Calls for fast turning *)
 
I know a man
And his name is Mister.
He knows a lady
And her name is Miss.                  (* Calls for fast turning *)

*Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan.
Fry the pancake,
Toss the pancake,
Catch me if you can!                  (* Calls fast turning *)
 
*Momma's in the kitchen
Making tapioca.
Father's in the kitchen
Reading the newspaper.
Baby's in the crib
Eating red hot peppers!                (* Calls for fast turning *)
 
*Monday is my washing day.
Tuesday I am done.
Wednesday is my ironing day.
Thursday I am done.
 
Friday is my shopping day.
Saturday I am done.
Sunday is my writing day.
And Harry never comes.
 
*Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously.
For Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
As Moses supposes his toeses to be.
  
*Mother sent me to the store.
She said I could not stay.
I fell in love with a blue eyed boy.
I couldn't get away.
 
*Mother, mother, have you heard?
Poppa's going to buy me a mockingbird.
If that mockingbird don't sing
Poppa's going to buy me a diamond ring.
If that diamond ring don't shine
Poppa's going to buy me a bottle of wine.
If that bottle of wine gets broke
Poppa's going to buy me a billy goat.
If that billy goat runs away
Poppa's going to buy me a Chevrolet.
If that Chevrolet don't run
Poppa's going to buy me a BB gun.
If that BB gun don't shoot
Poppa's going to buy me a bathing suit.
If that bathing suit don't fit
Poppa's going to say,'The heck with it!'
Sugar on a doughnut, yum, yum.

*Motor boat, motor boat: go so slow.         (* Turn rope slow     *)
Motor boat, motor boat: go a little fast.   (* Turn rope normal   *)
Motor boat, motor boat: step on the gas!    (* Calls fast turning *)

*Mrs. Red
Went to bed
In the morning
She was dead.

*My boyfriend's name is Fatty.
He comes from Cincinnati.
With a pickle for a nose
And a great big mouth
And that's the way my story goes.
 
*My boyfriend's name is {name}           (* Name a boy *)
He is so silly silly.
He has forty nine toes
And a big red nose
And that's the way
The story goes.
 
*My mommy works.
My daddy cuts the meat.
I'm the little meanie
Who lives across the street.
How many miles do I go?
One, two, three, ...                   (* Continues count *)
 
*My mother and your mother
Hanging out the clothes.
My mother gave your mother
A punch in the nose.
 
My mother and your mother
Live across the way.
Every night
They have a fight
And this is what they say.
 
Icky bicky soda cracker
Icky bicky boo.
Icky bicky soda cracker
Out goes you.                          (* Jumper exits *)

*My mother is a butcher.
My father cuts the meat.
I'm a little hot dog
Running down the street.
 
*My mother gave me a nickel.
My father gave me a dime.
My sister gave me a lover boy
That kissed me all the time.
 
My mother took my nickel.
My father took my dime.
My sister took my lover boy
And gave me Frankenstein.
 
He made me wash the dishes.
He made me scrub the floor.
I didn't like that a single bit
So I kicked him out the door.

*My old granddad made a shoe.
How many nails did he put through?
One, two, three, ...                      (* Continue count *)
 
*My sister got a boyfriend.
Comes in every night.
They go into the corner.
Turns out all the lights.
 
Peek into the keyhole.
What do I see?
{name}, {name}, {name}                 (* Names a boy *)
Put your arms around me.
 
*My name is MacNamara.
I am the leader of the band.
My wife is Betty Grable.               (* Movie actress, circa 1940 *)
She is the fairest in the land.
 
Oh, she can dance and she can sing
And she can show a leg.
The only thing that she can't do,
She cannot boil an egg.

*Nine lives, nine lives.
That's what a cat has.
Do you?                                (* Calls fast turning *)
One, two, three, ... nine.             (* Counts to nine *)
 
*Nine o'clock is striking.              (* from Missouri circa 1943 *)
Mother may I go out?
All the boys are waiting
For to take me out.
 
Some will give me apples.
Some will give me pears.
Some will give me fifty cents
And kiss me on the stairs.
 
I don't want the apples.
I don't want the pears.
I don't want the fifty cents
To kiss me on the stairs.
 
I'd rather do the dishes.
I'd rather scrub the floor.
I'd rather kiss the iceman
Behind the kitchen door.

*No more pencils.
No more books.
No more teacher's
Crossed eyed looks.

*Not last night
But the night before
Twenty four robbers
Knocking at my door.
As I ran out,
They ran in.
I hit them over the head
With a rolling pin.

* Not last night, but the night before,
      Twenty-four robbers came knockin' at my door,
      as I ran out,they ran in (jumpers run out and in again)
      And this is what they told me:
      Little spanish dancer do the splits,
          Little spanish dancer do high kicks,
      Little spanish dancer ,touch the ground,
          Little spanish dancer get out of town (jumper runs out)

*Now you are married.
You must be good.
Make your husband
Chop the wood.

*Oh, I run in and around I go.              (* Jumper enters *)
Clap my hands and nod just so.             (* Jumper mimes actions *)
I lift mu knee and slap my toe.            (* Jumper mimes actions *)
When I go out, let {name} come in.         (* Names next jumper, exits *)
 
*Oh, {name}                              (* Name a boy *)
I'm ashamed of you.
For leaving {name}                     (* Name a girl *)
On the ocean blue.
 
Her heart is nearly broken.
She's dying for a kiss.
Oh {name}                              (* Name same boy *)
I'm ashamed of this.

*Old lady, old lady lived in a shoe.
Old lady, old lady what to do?
Old lady, old lady stubbed her toe.
Old lady, old lady out you go.
 
*Old man Daisy
He went crazy.
Up the ladder.
Down the ladder.
Zider, zider.
Billy goat rider.
 
*Old man lazy
Drives me crazy.
Up the ladder.                           (* Jumper moves toward an end    *)
Down the ladder.                         (* Jumper moves toward other end *)
H O T spells hot.                        (* Calls for fast turning *)
 

*Old Molly Rier
Jumped in the fire.
The fire was so hot
She jumped in the pot.
The pot was so black
She jumped in a crack.
The crack was so high
She jumped in the sky.
The sky was so blue
She jumped in the flue.
The flue was so deep
She jumped in the creek.
The creek was so shallow
She jumped in the tallow.
The tallow was so cold
She jumped on a pole.
The pole was so round
She jumped on the ground.
The ground was white
And there she spent the night.

*Old Mother Mason
Broke her basin
Traveling down
To the railroad station.
 
Old Mother Witch
Fell in a ditch.
Found an apple.
Thought she was rich.
 
Old Mother Kelly
Had pimple on her belly.
Doctor cut it off
Made it into jelly.
 
Old Mother Cole
Had no soul.
Tried to get to heaven
On a telephone pole.

*Oliver Twist
Can't do this.
So what's the use of trying?
 
Number 1:  touch your tongue.           (* Jumper mimes actions *)
Number 2:  touch your shoe.
Number 3:  bend your knee.
Number 4:  touch the floor.
Number 5:  wave goodbye.
Number 6:  do the splits.

*On the mountain stands a lady.
Who she is, I don't know.
All she wants is gold and silver.
All she wants is ice cream cones.
So jump in, my darling.
So jump out, my baby.

*Once upon a time
A goose drank wine
And a monkey chewed tobacco
On a trolley car line
 
The trolley car broke.
The monkey choked.
And they all went to heaven
On a billy goat.
 
*One bright morning
In the middle of the night
Two dead boys
Got up to fight.
 
Back to back
They faced each other
Drew their swords
And shot their mother.
 
Two deaf policemen
Heard the noise
Came and killed
Those two dead boys.
 
If you don't believe
All this is true,
Ask the blindman.
He saw it too.
 
*One day when I was walkin'
A walkin' to the fair,
I met a senorita
With a flower in her hair.
 
Oh shake it senorita.                 (* Shakes both hands *)
Shake it if you can.
Shake it like a milkshake
And shake it once again.
 
Oh she wowed them on the bottom.            (* Lower hands *)
She wowed them on the top.                  (* Raise hands *)
She turned around and turned around         (* Turn around *)
Until she make us stop.
 
Salome was a dancer.
She danced before the king.
And everytime she danced
She wiggled everything.
 
Stop said the king.
You can't do this in here.
Boloney said Salome
And she kicked the chandlier.
 
Oh she wowed them on the bottom.            (* Lower hands *)
She wowed them on the top.                  (* Raise hands *)
She turned around and turned around         (* Turn around *)
Until she make us S-T-O-P stop.