Clap hands, daddy come home ....

Clap hands Daddy comes
bring little(childs name) a cake and a bun
apples to eat and nuts to crack
a little bow wow and a pussy cat.
At the end you open your arms wide and say sooo big!

Clap hands, Daddy will come
Bring our baby a cake and a plum
A cake with a cherry and a plum with a stone
Clap hands Daddy will come!

Clap, clap handies
Clap, clap away
Clap, clap Handies
and we'll all go out to play

Clap, clap handies
Goin' away to Fife
Comin' back on Monday
wi' an auld Wife

Sometimes the last line was 'wi a new wife'.

Clap your hands til Daddy comes home
Daddy will bring you a cakey home
One for you and one for me
And one for all the family

Clappy clappy handies,
Daddy's coming home,
Sweeties in his pocket,
For baby alone!

How fascinating, I've never heard that one before in any of its varieties.

We know the 'This is the way the ladies ride' but our version has the gentlemen going 'gallop a trot' gallop a trot' (calls for some very vigourous leg work) and the farmers go 'hobbledy hoy, hobbledy hoy' before falling into the ditch. This version came via the father of a friend in Yorkshire.

Also from Yorkshire comes a rhyme a neighbour in Doncaster used to say to my DS. Sadly I can't remember it all but it starts:

Jane lost a button, a button from her shoe
She lost it in the forest when she was walking through
Jane met a cobbler......

and there the memory fails!

Has anyone else evr heard of this? I tried searching the web but no luck at all. I'd love to recall the rest of it.

A 21st century variant?

"Clap hands, Daddy comes
Will he pay the bills?
Doesn't pay the CSA
Adds to Mummy's ills"

LOL @ Alea

In the north east we sing

Clap hands for daddy
coming down the wagon way
with a pocket full of money
and a cart load of hay

Replying to MaizieD

For some random reason, I googled the "Jane lost her button" rhyme today and this was the only entry. We learned as little kids in Oxford in the mid 60s. Moved back to India at the age of 5 but the rhyme stuck because our father recorded us reciting this and many other things. I joined gransnet just to reply to this. Goes like this.

Jane lost a button
A button from her shoe
She lost it in a forest
As she was walking through
Jane met a cobbler
And to him she said
I'd like a button
And a needle and some thread
Sew sew button
See the button tight
There you are my lassie
Now your shoe's allright

Some typos and autocorrects from my phone, but you get the idea

Cherrytree59

I don't know that little rhyme will try it out with my little GC
Does any GNetters remember the scottish song
Ally bally
Ally bally be
Sitting on your granny's knee
Crying for a wee baubee
To buy some Coulter candy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uO9aeERILI

Clap hands
Clap hands
Till daddy comes home.
Daddy's got money and
Mummy's got none!

Cherrytree59

I don't know that little rhyme will try it out with my little GC
Does any GNetters remember the scottish song
Ally bally
Ally bally be
Sitting on your granny's knee
Crying for a wee baubee
To buy some Coulter candy

Puir wee Jeanie, was getting awfu' thin,
Just a rickle o' banes covered ower wi skin.
Now she's gettin' a wee double chin.
From eating Coulter's candy

Is this a northern rhyme I ve never heard it before

Gosh, this is an old thread. 2016.

I’ve very recently done This Little Piggy and Round and round the garden…. with a Gdd of just 2 - she invariably holds her hand or foot out and says, ‘More!’

I’ve often sung ‘Clap hands till daddy comes home…’ but never knew another line!

Another favourite was (with them facing you on your lap), ‘The lady went, a trot a trot a trot’. (light bounce)

‘The gentleman went, a canter a canter a canter’ - bigger bounce.

‘But the old farrmer! went, ‘A gallop a trot, a gallop a trot and dooown in the ditch!’ Biggest bounce, followed by dropping them down between your knees.
Such fun!

Another one I think from the NE -
Dance te tha Daddy sing te tha Mammy
Dance te tha Daddy to tha Mammy sing.
you shall have a fishy on a little dishy
you shall have a fishy when the boat comes in.
Another local favourite:
Where have you been all the day Billy Boy?
Though others claim it's from Ireland.

Oh ye canny shove yer granny aff the bus
Oh ye canny shove yer grann aff the bus
Oh ye canny shove yer granny
Fur she's yer mammy's mammy
Ye canny shove yer granny aff the bus

You can shove yer ither granny aff the bus
You can.................................aff the
bus
You can shove yer ither granny
Fur she's yer daddy's mammy
You can shove................
aff the bus

We know the 'This is the way the ladies ride' but our version has the gentlemen going 'gallop a trot' gallop a trot' (calls for some very vigourous leg work) and the farmers go 'hobbledy hoy, hobbledy hoy' before falling into the ditch

I remember that one but I'd never heard the clap hands, daddy one home one.

I heard the one about Baby Bunting a lot when I was small:

Cry Baby Bunting
Daddy's gone a-hunting
Gone to catch a rabbit skin
To wrap poor Baby Bunting in

Not that my father ever had a gun or went hunting.

Iam64

Clap hands daddy comes
With a pocket full of plums
All for xxx (name of little one)

We sing this, alternating mummy/daddy to our baby grandson, it was sung to me, my sisters and cousins and we sang it to our children who now sing to theirs

That’s the one I sang to my children!

We always sang:

Clap -a -handies
Daddy's coming down the wagonway
With a pocket full of money
And a wagon full of hay.
Pom tiddely om pom
POM POM! (very large claps!!)
My children and grandchildren all loved it.

Ally bally
Ally Bally Bee was adapted to fit one of my DGDs. Each child has their own song or nursery rhyme which I changed specially for them.

They all enjoyed ' This is the way the ladies ride clip clop, clip clop, clip clop etc and loved the pause at the end before 'down in the ditch' when they were dropped backwards over my knee! (holding on tightly of course!)

Sadly I have not had the same amount of time to play with my two youngest DGSs due to covid and other problems. Lots of grandmas won't have been able to share these wonderful old rhymes over the past 2 years I suppose.

And Grandads!

My Mum sang:

Clap handies, clap handies and Daddy will come
Bringing (x) a ball and a drum,
And a great big horse to ride upon
SO-O high!

That was for any of the three of us but I also got the Ally Bally Bee song - "greeting" for crying. For over 60 years I thought she'd made it up for me because of the Ally, only to discover at a Healthy Living singing group a few years ago that it had been an advertisement for Coulter's Candy. ?

I remember helping my little brother learn to recite this:

Jane lost a button
A button from her shoe
She lost it in the forest
As she was walking through
Jane met a cobbler
Cheerily he said
I've got a button
A needle and some thread
Stitch stitch needle
Sew the button tight
There you are my lassie
Now your shoe's alright

Fennel

Another one I think from the NE -
Dance te tha Daddy sing te tha Mammy
Dance te tha Daddy to tha Mammy sing.
you shall have a fishy on a little dishy
you shall have a fishy when the boat comes in.
Another local favourite:
Where have you been all the day Billy Boy?
Though others claim it's from Ireland.

We’re not from the NE, all southerners, but I def. remember,

Dance to your daddy
My little laddie
Dance to your daddy.
My little man.
You shall have a fishy
In a little dishy
You shall have a fishy
When the boat comes in.