Down Down Baby

"Down Down Baby" is a clapping game played by children in English-speaking countries. In the game, two or more children stand in a circle, and clap hands in tune to a rhyming song. As with most hand-clapping games, there are many variations. Modified versions of the song have appeared in Little Anthony and the Imperials's "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop",^[1]^[2] Nelly's "Country Grammar",^[3]^[4] Simian Mobile Disco's "Hotdog", The Drums' "Let's Go Surfing", Usher's "OMG", and the film Big.

Lyrics

There are many variations of this clapping game from around the world.^[5] The actual lyrics that any given group of children use may vary based on region, era, and ethnicity.

Basic

The lyrics cited here are the essential lyrics of the rhyme, and are the lyrics that were featured in a 1980s segment of the US version of Sesame Street.^[6]

Down, down, baby

Down, down the roller coaster (accompanied by the hand making a horizontal wave motion)

Sweet, sweet, baby (accompanied by both arms crossing the chest)

I’ll never let you go

Shimmy, Shimmy cocoa pop

Shimmy, Shimmy pow

Shimmy, Shimmy cocoa pop

Shimmy, Shimmy pow

References

↑ Little Anthony And The Imperials "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop". "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop lyrics". Oldielyrics.com. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
↑ Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop video on YouTube
↑ "Country Grammar lyrics". Lyrics007.com. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
↑ Country Grammar video on YouTube
↑ The British Library. "Down Down Baby". Playtimes. The British Library. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
↑ Sesame Street clip on YouTube

External links

The British Library - Video recording of Down Down Baby, 2010

Nursery rhymes (list)

"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" "Hey Diddle Diddle" "Hickory Dickory Dock" "Hot Cross Buns" "Humpty Dumpty" "I'm a Little Teapot" "It's Raining, It's Pouring" "Jack and Jill" "Little Boy Blue" "Mary Had a Little Lamb" "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" "Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" "Poor Mary" "Pop Goes the Weasel" "Pretty Little Dutch Girl" "Roses are Red" "Sticks and Stones" "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" "Rub-a-dub-dub"

Clapping	"A Sailor Went to Sea" "Down Down Baby" "Mary Mack" "Miss Susie" "Miss Lucy" "Pat-a-cake" "Pease Porridge Hot"

Counting	"Duck, duck, goose" "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" "This Old Man" "Tinker, Tailor"

Finger- plays	"Five Little Monkeys" "Itsy Bitsy Spider" "Little Robin Redbreast" "Round and round the garden" "This Little Piggy"

Games	"London Bridge" "The Muffin Man" "Mulberry Bush" "Oranges and Lemons" "Ring a Ring o' Roses" "The Farmer in the Dell"

Lullabies	"Hush, Little Baby" "Rock-a-bye Baby"

Rounds	"Ding Dong Bell" "Frère Jacques" "Kookaburra" "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "Scotland's Burning" "Three Blind Mice"

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