ext_104675 ([identity profile] ichur72.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] magid 2005-03-14 09:00 am (UTC)

>> I remember something about a girl dressed all in black black black, with her hair down her back back back, but I don't know that I ever knew that one completely.

That would be "Miss Mary Mack" -- though I must have learned a different variant. The one I knew went:

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 50 cents, cents, cents
to see the elephants, elephants, elephants
jump over 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 4th of July, lie, lie

Then there were some who continued it with:

July don't walk, walk, walk
July don't talk, talk, talk
July don't eat, eat, eat
with a fork and spoon, spoon, spoon

One of our friends here has a 9-yr-old daughter who occasionally coaxes me into playing the hand-slap games, and so far "Miss Mary Mack" is the only song we both know.

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