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"Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game played by children in English-speaking countries. It is known in various parts of the United States and in New Zealand and has been called "the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world". In the game, two children stand or sit opposite to each other, and clap hands in time to a rhyming song. The same song is also used as a jumprope rhyme,〔Gaunt, ''Games Black Girls Play'', p. 68〕 although rarely so according to one source. ==Rhyme== Various versions of the song exist; a common version goes: :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 cents, cents, cents :To see the elephants, elephants, elephants (or hippos) :Jump the fence, fence, fence. :They jumped so high, high, high :they reached the sky, sky, sky :And didn't come back, back, back :Till the 4th of July, ly, ly! :(July can't walk, walk, walk :July can't talk, talk, talk :July can't eat, eat, eat :With a knife and fork, fork, fork). :She asked her mother, mother, mother :For 5 cents more, more, more :To see the elephants, elephants, elephants :Jump over the door, door, door. :They jumped so low, low, low :They stubbed their toe, toe, toe :And that was the end, end, end, :Of the elephant show, show, show! In some variations, Mary Mack asks her mother for fifteen cents rather than fifty. These variations may represent an earlier version of the song. It changed because of the speed of the rhyme and the similarity of the spoken words "fifteen" and "fifty", and because there were few things one could buy with fifteen cents in the later part of the 20th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Mack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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