The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap) – Shirley Ellis

Three six nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat

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 pat clap your hand. Cross it with your left arm
Pat you partner’s left palm
Clap pat, clap your hand, pat your partner’s right palm
With your right palm again
Clap slap, clap your hand, slap your thighs and sing a little song

My mother told me, if I was goody
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 chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat

Clap clap (clap your hands and prepare to pat)
Pat (take your right arm put your partner’s right palm with your right palm)

Clap (take your hand back and clap)

Pat (take your right arm, cross your right arm with your left arm)
Pat (your partner’s left palm with your left palm)

Clap (take your hand back and clap)
Pat (take your right arm, cross your left arm pat your partner’s right
Palm with your right palm)
Clap (now back, with a clap)
Slap (take the pats 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 goody
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 chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat