Strangely, in 1971, Jonico Music filed for a copyright for the song under the name Joe Raposo, who was a songwriter for Sesame Street. He received credit for the song, though he did not originally write it. In fact, many music scholars have thought its origins trace back outside of the U.S. to countries like Spain, Latin America, or even Latvia.
A few lines here or there are our own original lyrics, but most of the content here is a compilation of songs written by other people. The chords you see when you click on a "Show chords" button are the same ones we use, and my differ somewhat from whatever the original authors intended.
Whilst clapping hands to amuse DGS today, I was reminded of the old rhyme we used to sing to my lads when they were babies. I got as far as:
Clap hands, daddy come home
Bring baby a cake and a bun
Can't remember what comes next. Can anyone help?
Yes we used to sing this and clap up to the last word when hands were flung up in the air to show there was no silver in them. All the little ones loved this and it caused great anticipation of daddy coming home. Happy memories!
The clapping song I know is;
'Clap-a clap-a handies
Mummy's at the well
Daddy's gone to market
To buy baby a bell'
'Coulter's Candy' is still a well known song - I know further verses if anyone wants them
Clap hand clap hands till Daddy comes home
Daddy's got money and Mammys got none.
That's the version I remember and I used to speed up the clapping at the end and say the last words louder and DGD would laugh and laugh and say "again" so we'd do it lots of times.
My first career was as a nursery nurse before I retrained as a therapist in my forties and I taught the grandchildren all the singing rhymes I taught the nursery children, they learnt loads and loved learning them. It's great to keep the old songs/ action/ nursery rhymes going
I used a version of the above rhymes with my DCs. But with DGS1 and 2 I had to change the clap hands one from 'Daddy has money and Mummy has none' to 'Grandad has money and Granny has none'. Then aborted it! Both Daddies had gone, and neither produced a penny of financial support. Singing that song made me too upset at the time.
Both fathers still do not pay DD any maintenance
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