Since this thread was inspired by the current Mudcat thread McDonald's or Burger King, I'll start off with some McDonald's handclap rhymes:


Ronald McDonald
was ah Hamburger

Ronald McDonald
was ah hamburger

Ooh! Wishie Washie
Ah hamburger

Ooh! Wishie Washie
Ah hamburger

It tasted good, like
Ah hamburger

It tasted good, like
Ah hamburger

Ice cream soda
with a cherry on top.
Now shake it baby
Ah boom bang!
-Donetta Agbodzie, who said her younger sister taught it to her around 1976, 1977 in Pittsburgh, PA.

RONALD MCDONALD LOVES A HAMBURGER
Ronald McDonald
loves ah hamburger
Ooh she she wah wah
ah hamburger
I fell in love
With ah
Hamburger
Big Mac
Quarter Pouder
Icey coke
Milk shake
You deserve a beak today *
At McDonald's!
And the dish ran away with the spoon **
-T. Powell; 1980s; Pittsburgh, PA {my daughter, who is a school teacher, reports that [African American] elementary school age girls & boys still "do" this exact same "song" to handclaps, particulary during school bus rides to field trips}

* the first lines until "you deserve etc" are a recitation of the exact words of that McDonald's commercial; "You deserve a break today/so get up and get away/at McDonald's" is sung in the same tune and the same way as was done in that commercial"

** And the dish ran away with the spoon" is recited; the line is from a Mother Goose rhyme {which one??}