Miss Mary Mack

Song:  Miss Mary Mack

Source:  Childhood

Origin: unknown

Grade level: preK+

Rhythmic elements: major or minor key

Movement: clapping game (can be as complicated or not depending on grade/ability levels)

Connection to curriculum:  money/economics, patterns, "Miss Mary Mack" sing along story book

Words:

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 50 cents (cents cents)

To see the elephant (elephant elephant)

Jump the fence (fence fence)

They jumped so high (high high)

They touched the sky (sky sky)

And didn't come back (back back)

'Till the 4th of July (July July)