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
Circle Around Tucker, Singing
“Go round and round old Tucker,
Go round and round old Tucker,