The Clapping Song

Three, six, nine, the goose drank wine

The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line

The line broke, the monkey got choked

They all went to heaven in a little row-boat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Slap

Clap-Pat: Clap your hand, pat it on your partner's hand (right hand)

Clap-Pat: Clap your hand, cross it with your left arm, pat your partner's left palm

Clap-Pat: Clap your hand, pat your partner's right palm with your right palm again

Clap-Slap: Clap your hands, slap your thighs, and sing a little song; go:

My mother told me

If I was good-ee

That she would buy me

A rubber dolly

My aunty told her

I kissed a soldier

Now she won't buy me

A rubber dolly

Three, six, nine, the goose drank wine

The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line

The line broke, the monkey got choked

They all went to heaven in a little row-boat

Clap-clap: Clap you hands and prepare to pat

Pat: Take your right arm pat your partner's right palm with your right palm

Clap: Take your hands back and clap

Pat: Take you right arm cross your right arm with your left arm pat your partner's left palm with your left palm

Clap: Take your hands back and clap

Pat: Take your right arm cros your left arm and pat your partner's right palm with your right palm

Clap: Now back, with a clap

Take the flats of your palms and slap your thighs and watch the fun materialize as you sing this little song:

My mother told me

If I was good-ee

That she would buy me

A rubber dolly

My aunty told her

I kissed a soldier

Now she won't buy me

A rubber dolly

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Slap

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Pat

Clap-Slap

• Artist:Shirley Ellis
• Album:The Clapping Song - Single