Miss Lucy
Schoolyard hand game
Miss Lucy is a children's clapping game and its accompanying rhyme, performed by pairs who chant verses while executing synchronized hand patterns.
The song has many regional variations, often featuring a lady named Lucy, a baby, and darkly comic scenarios involving alligators or doctors.
Like many playground rhymes, the verses can be surprisingly morbid beneath their singsong delivery: Miss Lucy had a baby, she named him Tiny Tim.
- sing-songRhythmically repetitive tone
- lullabySoothing song for babies
- hand clappingStriking palms together repeatedly
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
- folk rhymeTraditional oral verse
clapping game · children's game · allegory · archetype · schoolyard · oral tradition · passed down · caricature · emblem · cultural icon · metaphor · playground · motif · personification · representation · educator · parable · governess
Miss Lucynursery rhymes
Traditional poems for toddlers
Mary Had a Little Lamb · lullabies · Sunday school songs · educational songs
Miss Lucytag
Identifier or classifier
hide and seek · dodgeball · Red Rover · kickball · capture the flag