page_title: Mary Mack
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Mack
caption_attribution_description: English: Melody to "Miss Mary Mack".
context_page_description: "Mary Mack" is a clapping game played by children in English-speaking countries. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton, whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is well known in various parts of the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and in New Zealand and has been called "the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world".
  In the game, two children stand or sit opposite to each other, and clap hands in time to a rhyming song.
  The same song is also used as a jumprope rhyme, although rarely so according to one source.
context_section_description: "Mary Mack" ("Miss Mary Mack") is a clapping game played by children in English-speaking countries.  It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is well known in various parts of the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and in New Zealand and has been called "the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world".
  In the game, two children stand or sit opposite to each other, and clap hands in time to a rhyming song.
  The same song is also used as a jumprope rhyme, although rarely so according to one source.
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