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MISS MARY MACK

Picture from "Miss Mary Mack"

by Evan Polenghi, 1994 Scholastic Inc

Click on the banjo button to hear the music as you sing.

        Miss Mary Mack,         Mack, Mack

        All dressed in black,     black, black

        With silver buttons,     buttons, buttons

        all down her back,       back, back.

        She asked her Mother,     Mother, Mother

        For fifty cents,             cents, cents

        To see the elephants,     elephants, elephants

        Jump the fence,           fence, fence.

        The elephants jumped,     jumped, jumped

        So very high,                high, high

        They didn't come down,    down, down

        'Till the Fourth of July,    lie, lie

        They didn't come down,    down, down

        'Till the Fourth of July,   lie, lie

        ...repeat faster...

Picture from "Miss Mary Mac"

by Scott E. Hastings, Jr.

1990, August House

Here is a version made up by kids on the playground..

          Miss Mary Mack,         Mack, Mack

        All dressed in black,     black, black

        Gave her mother,        mother, mother

        A heart attack           yak, yak.

        She couldn't read,      read, read

        She couldn't write,     write, write

        But she would smoke,   choke, choke

        Grandfather's pipe,     yike, yike

        She huffed and puffed,  huff, puff

        Till she turned blue,     ewe, ewe

        Her face turned red,    red head

        And so would you,       pew, pew

        Her face turned red,   red head

        And so would you,       pee, ewe!

New words (C) 2002 Music Legacy