CLAP HANDS
Jamaican: trad

(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home. (Repeat)
(B) Mama bring cake for baby alone
(C) Baby eat all no gi' Mama none.
(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home.

(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home. (Repeat)
(B) Mama bring cake for baby alone
(C) Baby eat all no gi' Papa none.
(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home.

(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home. (Repeat)
(B) Mama bring cake for baby alone
(C) Papa get vex an' throw baby down.
(A) Clap hands, clap hands till Mama come home.


According to the notes accompanying this song:
"The children choose partners and stand in two long lines facing each other. At points marked 'clap'* they clap hand first by themselves, and then with their partners alternately.
* points marked 'clap' shown here underlined (verse 1)

The first line sings part (B), The second line sings part (C) and both lines sing part (A) together."


From:
"Brown gal in de Ring"
12 Jamaican Folk-Songs
Collected & arranged for schools by OLIVE LEWIN
Oxford University Press 1974
ISBN 0 19 330544 5

X: 1
T: Clap Hands
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
O: Jamaica
Z: NP 10/06/2011
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