| 词条 | Mary Mack |
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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,[2] although rarely so according to one source.[3] RhymeVarious 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. (or "Up and down her back back back") She asked her mother, mother, mother for fifty (or 15) cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants (or hippos or cows) Jump the fence, fence, fence. They jumped so high, high, high they reached the sky, sky, sky And didn't (or never) come back, back, back Till the 4th of July ly ly. She asked her mother, mother, mother For 5 cents more, more, more To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump 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. An alternate version, sung in Canada, includes the words: She could not read, read, read She could not write, write, write But she could smoke, smoke, smoke Her father’s pipe, pipe, pipe. ClapA common version of the accompanying clap is as follows:
Another version:[4]
Another Version:
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repeat Possible originsThe first verse, the repetition, is also a riddle with the answer "coffin".[5] Early mentions of the part about the elephant do not include the part about Mary Mack.[6][7] MerrimackThe origin of the name Mary Mack is obscure, and various theories have been proposed. According to one theory, Mary Mack originally referred to the USS Merrimack, a United States warship of the mid-1800s named after the Merrimack River, that would have been black, with silvery rivets. This may suggest that the first verse refers to the Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} See also
References1. ^{{cite book | last = Gaunt | first = Kyra Danielle | title = The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-hop | publisher = NYU Press | page = 63 | isbn = 0-8147-3120-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=N45OBoLx-mYC&pg=PA63 | accessdate = 2011-04-08}} 2. ^Gaunt, Games Black Girls Play, p. 68 3. ^{{cite book | last = Cole | first = Joanna | authorlink = Joanna Cole (author)| year = 1989 | title = Anna Banana: 101 Jump-rope Rhymes | publisher = HarperCollins | page = 13 | isbn = 0-688-08809-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GkWMP7SbnLIC&pg=PA13&dq=%22Mary+Mack%22 | accessdate = 2011-04-08}} 4. ^Bernstein, Sara (1994). Hand Clap!, p.88-9. {{ISBN|1-55850-426-5}}. Rhythm not provided. 5. ^{{cite book | last = Odum | first = Howard W. | authorlink = Howard W. Odum | year = 1928 | edition = 2006 | title = Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses | publisher = Indiana University Press | page = 33 | isbn = 0-253-21854-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tIvR3vDw3B8C&pg=PA33&dq=Mary+Mack#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Mack&f=false | accessdate = 2011-04-08}} 6. ^{{cite book | last = Heath | first = Lilian M. | year = 1902 | title = Eighty Good Times Out of Doors | publisher = Fleming H. Revell Co | page = 186 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mkcCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA186&dq=%22elephant+jump+the+fence%22 | accessdate = 2011-04-08}} 7. ^{{cite book | last = Day | first = Holman F. | authorlink = Holman Day | year = 1905 | title = Squire Phin: A Novel | publisher = A. L. Burt Co | page = 21 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zzo3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21 | accessdate = 2011-04-08}} 2 : Clapping games|Skipping rhymes |
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