Old Dan Tucker.
By lot, or by old-fashioned counting out verses, let chance decide who is to be “It,” or Tucker, and let all the other males, big and little, select partners as they would for a dance, and form a ring around Tucker. At a signal from “It” each player must face his partner and sing
“Hipperty-Hop, Hipperty-Hop!
Joyfully now we sing,
As we hop to the right and hop to the left,
Around Dan Tucker’s ring!”
Keeping time with the music the players go, with a hipperty-hop step, to the right of the first and to the left of the second, weaving in and out until the partners meet; then right-about-face and back again in the same manner to their places. Next all join hands and