Clapping game
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A clapping game is type of usually cooperative (ie non-competitive) game which is generally played by two players and involves clapping.
The template of a standard clapping game is for the participants to strike each other's hand(s), as well as perform other actitivies such as thigh slapping, in a rhythmic fashion while reciting a rhyme. The clapping pattern is often improvised. The rhyme is very similar to a jump-rope rhyme.
The clapping games
There are a variety of distinct clapping games, each of which is performed or played in various versions found in different areas and times and often according to ethnicity. For example Hello, Operator may be called Missy Susie or Lucy and may contain, omit, or vary verses or specific lines
Hello, Operator/Miss Lucy
"Miss Lucy" is "a provocative game that includes all kinds of sexual innuendos about boys and having babies" and features "the linguistic play of double entendres and elisions created when certain syllables and words are just about to mean something sexual or scatological and then they suddenly shift into some benign reference," making "'Miss Lucy' (the game and idea of a woman) fun and sexy to play with" (Gaunt 2006, p.23):
- Mi-ss...
- Lu-cy had a ba-by (clap clap)
- She named it Tiny Tim (clap clap)
- She put him in the bath-tub (clap clap)
- To see if he could swim (clap clap)...
- :(ibid, p.23)
- Be-hind the elevator (clap clap)
- There was a piece of glass (clap clap)
- Miss Lu-cy fell upon it and it went straight up her
- Ask me no more questions (clap clap)
- I'll tell you no more lies (clap clap)
- The boys are in the bathroom (clap clap) pulling up their
- Fly me to the O-cean (clap clap)...
- :(ibid, p.23-24)
- Miss Molly had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell (Ding, Ding), Miss Molly went to Heaven, the steamboat went to Hell-o operator please give me number nine, And if you disconnect me, I'll kick you from Behind the 'fridgerator there was a piece of glass, Miss Molly sat upon it and broke her big fat ass-k me no more questions, tell me no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom room zipping up their Flies are in the city, the bees are in the park, Miss Molly and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K D-A-R-K, DARK, DARK, DARK, Dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a TV show, and that is all I know!
- Miss Susy had a steamboat...D-A-R-K D-A-R-K DARK, DARK, DARK! Darker than the ocean, darker than the sea, darker than the underwear my mother puts on me!
- Miss Susie had a steamboat...D-A-R-K D-A-R-K, dark, dark, dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a TV show, and that is all I know I know my ma, I know I know my pa, I know I know my sister with the 40 acre bra! My mom (mother) is godzilla, my dad (father) is king kong, my brother is the stupid one who made up this dumb song! A song is like a rhythm, a rhythm's like a beat, a beet is like a vegetable that no one likes to eat!
- Miss Susie had a steamboat...D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K, dark, dark, dark is like a movie, a movie's like a show, a show is like a TV show and that is all I know, I know my ma, I know i know my pa, I know I know my sister with the eighty dollar bra! My ma gave me a nickel, my pa gave me a dime, my sister gave me a boyfriend, whose name was frankenstein! He made me do the dishes, he made me mop the floor, he made me do his underwear, so I kicked him out the door. I kicked him over London, I kicked him over France, I kicked him to Hawaii where he learned the hula dance!
Cici, My Playmate/Hey Hey Little Playmate
Variants include:
- Cici my playmate, I can not play with you, my sisters got the flu, and german measles too. Come down my rainbow, into my lollyshop, and we'll have jolly fun, forever more, more, more! Sitting in the sun, sun, sun chewing on gum, gum, gum, sucking your thumb!
- Cici, my playmate come out and play with me, and bring your dollies please, into my apple tree. Slide down my rainbow, into my pot of gold, and we'll be jolly friends forever more, more, shut the door.
- Cici, my playmate come out and play with me, and bring your dollies three, climb up my apple tree. Slide down my rain barrel into my cellar door. And we'll be jolly friends for ever more, more, more, more, more.
- Cici, my playmate, Can't come and play with you, My dolly's got the flu, Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, Can't slide down your rainbarrel, Into your cellar door, But we'll be jolly friends, Forever more, more, more, more.
- Cici my play mate come out and play with me and bring ur dollies please slid down my rainbow into my celer door and will be jolly friends forevermore 1,2,3,4
- Cici, My Playmate, I can't come out today, because of yesterday, 3 boys came around my way, they paid me 50cents, to lay upon the fence, they said it wouldn't hurt, they stuck it up my skirt. My mother was surprised, to see my belly rise, my father was disgusted to know my cherry busted, my sister sounded mean, when she heard me scream, my brother jumped for joy, to see a baby boy!
- First person:
- :Hey hey little playmate, Come out and play with me, And bring your dollies three, Climb up my apple tree, Slide down my rainbow, Into my cellar door, And we'll be playmates, Forever more, 1, 2, 3, 4!
- Second person:
- :Hey hey little playmate, Can't come out and play with you, My dollies got the flu, Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, Can't climb up your apple tree, Or slide down your rainbow, Into your cellar door, But we'll be playmates, Forever more, 1, 2, 3, 4!
My mother your mother...
''My mother your mother live down the street 18, 19 marlball St., every time they have a fight this what they'd say all night: boys are rotten, made out of cotton; girls are handy, made out of candy; boys go to jupiter to get more stupider; girls go to college to get more knowledge; boys drink whiskey and get more frisky; girls drink sperm and get more bitchy...icky-bicky soda popper -- icky-bicky boo; icky-bicky soda popper -- i choose you!
Oh Mella...
oh Mella (CLAP 3 TIMES) kiss a fella (CLAP 3 TIMES) lazy boys (CLAP 3 TIMES) ping pong (CLAP 3 TIMES (FASTER NOW) oh mella kiss a fella lazy boys ping pong turn around touch the ground freeze
Boys are...
Boys are cheats and liars they're such a big disgrace they will tell you anything to get to second base--ball, baseball he thinks he's gonna score if you let him go all the way, then you are a hor--ticulturist studies flowers, geologist studies rocks the only thing he wants from you is a place to put his cock--roaches, beetles, butterflies and bugs nothing makes him happier than a giant pair of jug--glers and acrobats and a dancing bear named chuck all guys really want to do is--forget it, no such luck.
Apple on a stick...
- ''Apple on a stick; makes me sick; makes my heart go 246; not because you're dirty; and not because you're clean; not because you kiss a boy behind a magazine; boys boys having fun; along came a teacher with a big fat bum; she can wiggle; she can wobble; and do the splits I bet ya; I bet ya she can't do this; close your eyes and count to ten; if you mess it up you're a big fat hen; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; you're a big fat hen!'
- apples on a stick just make me sick
- they make my heart beat 2,4,6
- not because im dirty, not because im clean
- just because i kissed a boy behind a magazine
- hey girls lets have some fun
- here comes johnny with his pants undone
- he can wobble he can spit
- he can even do a split
- but i betcha ten dollars he can't do this
- close your eyes and count to ten
- and if you mess up start all over again!
- 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10... (keep going until you mess up)
Games with articles of their own
Source
- Gaunt, Kyra D. (2006). The Games Black Girls Play. ISBN 0814731201.
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