My heart goes bop bop together
I like the weather
Bring back my love to me
My heart goes criss cross
Tomato sauce
Ear to ear
Three musketeers
Eye to Eye
Three apple pies
Hip to Hip
Potato Chip
Bop Bop Tomato
Bop Bop Tomato
Bop Bop Tomato
FREEZE!
Danyelle, our Girl Griot in Brazil saw some other girl griots playing hand games!!! The Handgame Society is global! Look familiar? :)
Soooo much fun!!!!
“I Don’t Wanna Go To Mexico No More More More”: Black Girls & Handgames by Jade Foster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Yw6xsffaU
This is a handgame based on slide. My cousin and I sat around one summer and were playing hand games and got bored with the traditional back hand touch part of slide and decided to add more hand gestures, probably hand movements from other hand games. Nevertheless we came up with this combination. This video was taken my junior year in college, during finals week. Procrastination at its best. It shows my friend and I playing the version of slide my cousin and I had made up years earlier.
Mailman Mailman do your duty, here comes a lady with a African booty, she can do the pom pom, she can do the twist. Most off all she can kiss kiss kiss. K-I-S-S (Repeat over & over while seeing who can stay low the longest.
Down down baby
Down by the roller coaster
Sweet sweet baby I’ll never let you go
Chimie chimie cocoa pop
chimie chimie pow
chimie chimie pow
chimie chimie cocoa pop
chimie chimie pow
I’m glad i found this site! I’ve been trying to collect hand games for the past two weeks for little girls at the local Y. Here’s one of my favs (it can also be used as a rope song):
Take a peach take a plum take a pocket full of gum
No no don’t take it
Take it up
Take it down
Take it all the way around
Popcorn maybe chicken and gravy
Here comes the lady with the bald-headed baby
She can wiggle she can wobble
She can do the splits
Betcha 5 dollars she can’t do this:
Said spin all the way arrrrouunnd
Jump all the way arroounnd
(Girl Griots, New Orleans)
“Four person games are always better!” - Z, 9 years old.
