Handclap games
 

Does anyone remember doing this kind of thing as a child? For some reason I was thinking about this last night. I even began to remember some of the rhymes we said while clapping. Let's share the rhymes we remember.

Miss Lucy had a steamboat
The steamboat had a bell
Miss Lucy went to heaven
The steamboat went to...
Hell-o operator
Give me number 9
And if you disconnect me
I'll kick you from...
Be-hind the frigerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Lucy sat upon it
And broke her little...
As-k me no more questions
Tell me know more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Pulling up their...
Flies are in the city
Bees are in the park
Boys and girls are kissing in the
D-A-R-K D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dark!

We had one hauntingly similar to that but I can't recall it. It had the as...k me no questions, tell no lies bit in it.

There was one we used for skipping....can't recall more than the first couple of lines:

Not last night,
but the night before
23 robbers came
knocking at my door...

again? we recently covered this here:

http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=1...+came+knocking

Aw crap! How did I miss it. I guess there is no topic uncovered.

That one's all back & forth - my favourites were up & down and where you had to do actions in between too.
This is the closest I can find: