Here's the words to the Jamaican ring game 24 Boxes: There she* goes around the ring Around the ring Around the ring And if you see her way over yonder Tell her you love her And give her 24 boxes She can do the 24 boxes Up and down the 24 boxes *Change to he [him] when a boy is the middle person. -snip- This ring game is performed by a group of Jamaican girls and boys in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qklj8KPkEg which was published on YouTube by ochoriostube in 2009. The performance of 24 boxes is very similar to the performances of the contemporary American singing games "Little Sally Walker [was walking down the street] and "(Here we go) ride that Pony". For information about, examples of, and links to those singing games, visit that zumalala post & click the links that are provided in that post. Of course, in time, those two singing games will also be featured on zumalala.
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