+Mary Mack

Miss Mary Mack – Child’s Handclapping Song

The lyrics to Miss Mary Mack vary by locale, time or even playground.  Here are the lyrics I grew up with in Western New York.

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 (fifteen) cents, cents, cents

To see the elephants, elephants, elephants

Jump (over) the fence, fence, fence

They jumped so high, high, high

They reached the sky, sky, sky

And never came back, back, back

Til the Fourth of July, (Ju)ly, (Ju)ly!