Lyrics
(Folk song)
Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dress 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 elephant, elephant, elephant
Jump over the fence, fence, fence
He jumped so high, high, high,
He reached the sky, sky, sky
And he never came back, back, back
‘Til the 4th of July, lie, lie.
Hand-Clapping
In partners, students alternate these motions:
- clap
- both hands folded over chest
- high five right hands with partner
- high five left hands with partner
- both hands together high five
See also
- Subjects: silly / elephants
- Activities: hand-clapping
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: G,A,B,C
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: tetratonic
- Tones: s,l,t,d
- Similar lyrics: Jack Can I Ride
- Printable Xylophone Visuals
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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I like the Miss Mary Mack song.