I remember seeing girls doing so many of those. That was a big one. There was another one where, it worked into the clapping game choreography, every line ended with “Bisquick” and at that point you’d reach up and brush your shoulders.
Basically from birth until adulthood when your life ends and your job begins, the girls around me were constantly sharing stuff like that between them. Over a couple decades it smoothly transitioned from pattycake to line dances to club dances. Double Dutch was in there, somewhere.
Ok so I couldn’t get this out of my head and looked it up and it turns out the ‘official’ rhyme has it’s own wikipedia page, but it’s nothing like how I remember it? The official version is full of hippos and elephants and shit and she’s a kid, it’s really weird.
In the version I did at school, Mary Mac was an old lady and she lived in an old house, and I think it was her mother she pushed down the stairs?
This little snippet came back to me while I was doing the dishes- ‘down the stairs, stairs stairs’ and then something something ‘crack, crack, crack, she broke her back, back, back’.
Man I wish I could remember it all, this would have been a fascinating addition to the folklore to record somewhere.
This one was a clapping game rhyme.
Miss Mary Mac Mac Mac
All dressed in black black black
With silver buttons buttons buttons
All down her back back back
There was more, something about her house and pushing someone down stairs I think but I can’t remember.
I remember seeing girls doing so many of those. That was a big one. There was another one where, it worked into the clapping game choreography, every line ended with “Bisquick” and at that point you’d reach up and brush your shoulders.
Basically from birth until adulthood when your life ends and your job begins, the girls around me were constantly sharing stuff like that between them. Over a couple decades it smoothly transitioned from pattycake to line dances to club dances. Double Dutch was in there, somewhere.
Hello operator, give me number 9,
And if you disconnect me, I think I’ll lose my…
Ok so I couldn’t get this out of my head and looked it up and it turns out the ‘official’ rhyme has it’s own wikipedia page, but it’s nothing like how I remember it? The official version is full of hippos and elephants and shit and she’s a kid, it’s really weird.
In the version I did at school, Mary Mac was an old lady and she lived in an old house, and I think it was her mother she pushed down the stairs?
This little snippet came back to me while I was doing the dishes- ‘down the stairs, stairs stairs’ and then something something ‘crack, crack, crack, she broke her back, back, back’.
Man I wish I could remember it all, this would have been a fascinating addition to the folklore to record somewhere.