Elizabeth, this is a big one, I mean a doozie Doogie, Howser, cause see, I’m like Bowser Kickin it with the sha-na-na-na, the t-shirt And the trousers, how’s the Family Ties? I’m left with the gift, open it up, SURPRISE! Big Mac, filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, french fries Icy Coke, milkshake, sundaes and apple pies And a cup? I got a Big Mac, let's make french fries I'm high as a plane, pop a pill, disappear like David Blaine Come back on the track with Gucci Mane I got ten pills, ten hoes, I'ma run a choo-choo train All through Atlanta, my new nickname is Coochie Game I don't let 'em swallow, I show 'em how to use it, man Wah-da-tay, my damie, make 'em sell they. We also very often did the McDonald's commercial ('Big Mac, filet o fish, quater-pounder, french fries, icy coke, thick shake, sundaes, and apple pies. You deserve a break today at McDonald's! And the cup ran away with the spoon, boo hoo!' ), which I seem to remember having very complicated hand movements to go with it.

Edited by Azizi Powell
This post focuses examples of two playground rhymes that have their source in Mcdonalds advertisement jingles. Those rhymes are 'McDonalds Is Your Kind Of Place' [source ad 1967) and 'Welcome To McDonalds' (also known as 'Big Mac', 'Mcdonalds Handclap Rhyme' and other titles)
The content of this post is presented for historical, folkloric, recreational, and aesthetic purposes.
The copyrights remain with their owners.
My thanks to all those persons whose examples I quoted. My thanks also to the unknown and known composers of the music, to all those responsible for the featured videos, and to the uploaders of these videos.
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GENERAL COMMENTS
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. According to its wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's that restaurant chain started in 1948 in the United States and 'serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries'.
PLAYGROUND RHYMES SOURCE MATERIALS & TUNES
Advertisement jingles often use tunes from previously composed songs, rhymes, and chants. For example, the tune for the 'McDonalds Is Your Kind Of Place' jingle is based on the African American Gospel song 'Down By The Riverside' (Aint Gonna Study War No More). Using familiar tunes means that those chanting can concentrate on remembering the words and doing the handclap routines without worrying about how the tune goes.*
Advertisement jingles aren't the only source for words to playground rhymes. Playground rhymes also include verses and references from popular songs, television programs, movies, Mother Goose rhymes, and other playground rhymes. Lines from other songs & rhymes are called 'floating verses or traveling verses'.
Each of the versions of 'Welcome to McDonald's' ('Big Mac') that are showcased in this post contains an example of a 'floating verse' or 'floating line' from another rhyme or song.
Version #1 of 'Welcome To McDonalds' ends with the line 'And the dish ran away with the spoon'. That line comes from the Mother Goose rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle'. For some reason, that end line appears to be used a lot for this rhyme (my daughter also used it in the 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). I'm not sure why that line is combined with that McDonalds jingle. My daughter said she did it because 'it fit'. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some television comedian recited that parody that way and kids picked it up from that segment. But that's just a guess.
Also notice that the 'you deserve a break today' line in that video uses the same tune as those lines in the 1980s Mcdonalds 'source jingle'.
Version #2 of 'Welcome To McDonalds' includes the words & actions to the rhyme 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. And there are verses from other playground rhymes that are combined with the 'core' words for 'Welcome To McDonalds' ('Big Mac').
Version #3 of 'Welcome To McDonalds' has only the first two 'standard' lines of that rhyme followed by a version of the playground rhyme 'See My Pinky'.
*Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2012/01/childrens-cheers-or-rhymes-inspired-by.html for examples of children's rhymes or cheers that are based on R&B songs.
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MCDONALDS IS OUR [YOUR] KIND OF PLACE
Here's the source ad & jingle for 'McDonalds Is Your Kind Of Place':
McDonalds is our kind of place [clap clap]*
It’s such a happy place [clap clap]
Hap hap hap happy place [clap clap]
Ah clean and snappy place [clap clap]
McDonalds is our kind of place [clap clap]
It’s such a happy place [clap clap]
McDonalds is our kind of place!
Your kind of place!
*These words indicate that two claps are done immediately following those lyrics.
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Here's the source ad for those rhymes:
McDonald's Commercial 1967
Uploaded by pepsiforever on Dec 6, 2007
A McDonald's Commercial from 1967.

Big Mac Filet-o-fish Hand Game Lyrics Chords

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That ad has spawned a number of 'McDonalds Is Your Kinda Place' parodies. Here are three examples of this rhyme:
McDonald's Is Your Kind Of Place (Example #1)
McDonald's is your kind of place.
They serve you rattlesnakes,
French fries between your toes,
Hamburgers up your nose.
The last time that I was there
They served me underwear.
McDonald's is your kind of place.
-NightWing; http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=87050 Lyr Req: Kid's Parodies; 10/11/2004
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McDonalds Is Yur Kinda Place (Example #2)
McDonalds is your kind of place!
Hamburgers in your face!
French Fries up your nose!
Pickles between your toes!
And don't forget those lousy shakes!
They're made from polluted lakes!
McDonalds is your kind of place!
Direct from the source ;)
-TheOffensiveuser,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEkfipbI3Q&feature=related ; April 2012
[Hereafter known as 'Parody Of McDonalds Video #1']
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McDonalds Is Yur Kinda Place (Example #3)
McDonalds is your kinda place.
Hamburgers in your face.
French fries between your toes.
Dill pickles up your nose.
The last time I went there
They burned my underwear.
McDonalds is your kinda place
-MuscleMikal 'Parody Of McDonalds Video #1', May 2012
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WELCOME TO MCDONALDS
Here are text examples of the source ad & jingle 'Welcome To Mcdonalds':
Version #1:
Big Mac
filet of fish
quarter pounder
french fries
icy coke
thick shakes
sundaes and apple pie
If you're hungry then for goodness sake
Give yourself a tasty break
With Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, French Fries

Big Mac Filet-o-fish Hand Game Lyrics Youtube

Icy Coke, Thick Shakes, Sundaes, Apple Pie
At McDonald's.
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Version #2:
big mac, filet-o-fish, quarter pounder, french fry,
icy cold thick shake, sundaes and apple pie!
you deserve a break today, at mcdonalds
where the dish ran away with the spoon!
Ahhh..
:)
-Barbym1991, href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLNpgWmx1PM
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Version #3:
The one i know is
welcome to mcdonalds
may i take your order
see my pinky
see my thumb
see my fist
you better run
-sarahwentloco ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eMkpiLjKWU8 Welcome To McDonalds Game; October 2011
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Version #4:
Welcome To McDonalds
Go!
Welcome to McDonalds
May I take your order?
Big Mac
Special snacks
French Fries
Apple Pies
Rock
Paper
Scissors
Shoot!
[Hmm, lets see]
I win
You lose
Now you got the tickle shoes.
-datura2323 ; Welcome To McDonalds http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=eMkpiLjKWU8 ; Jul 31, 2008
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FEATURED VIDEOS 'WELCOME TO MCDONALDS'
Video #1: DoubleDutch - Old McDonalds Ad
tracy80sgirl, Uploaded on Jul 29, 2009
Sadly, I can only skip a single rope. But what a feelgood McDonald's commercial!
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Video #2: Welcome To McDonald's game
Uploaded by datura2323 on Jul 31, 2008
Kids playin with their Mom! Very cute.
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Video #3: Mcdonalds hand game
Uploaded by Barbym1991 on May 15, 2009
old hand game my mom and aunt taught us!! Enjoy!
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RELATED VIDEO
Here's a McDonalds commercial that includes handclapping and body patting (pattin juba)*

Big Mac Filet-o-fish Hand Game Lyrics Karaoke

1980s McDonald's Commercial
Uploaded by AnnainCA on May 19, 2010
'McDonald's handwarmin' is fun to do!'
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'Pattin Juba' is now most often associated with the rhyme 'Hambone'. However, that body patting technique was also done for other rhymes & songs.
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UPDATE:
Here's an example of how American children's rhymes become known in other nations - Americans visiting or working in those nations teach the rhyme's words & movements.
Big Mac hand clap
Uploaded by julieannclark on Dec 21, 2010
Emilie's work in the Peace Corps is complete, now that these African children know all the words to this hand-clapping game.

Big Mac Filet-o-fish Hand Game Lyrics Song

Louga, Senegal, West Africa
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RELATED LINK
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/pattin-juba-hambone-and-bo-diddley-beat.html for more information about & examples of body patting (pattin juba).
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Glossophilia is taking a trip down memory lane with a series of posts on childhood songs and rhymes: when we skipped in the school playground, bounced on our parents’ knees, twisted our tongues around gob-stopping riffs, learned our lessons with nifty mnemonics, and recited — delighted — silly nonsense.

Remember the days of the old schoolyard? If you’re a grown-up boy, you probably just remember the footie and the fisticuffs more than anything else. But we girls will never forget our hours and hours of hand-clapping and skipping-rope sessions, the longer the better, with no-one ever tripping the rope or missing a beat, breathlessly counting, and chanting the rhymes and songs — often pretty rude — that gave it all reason, shape and momentum …

Rhyme- and song-based schoolyard games are found in every country and culture — basically anywhere that has a spoken language where children are allowed to play freely. Dating back several centuries, rhyming games serve several purposes — linguistic, social and physical — for the nurturing of young, growing minds: to explore and develop language, to allow and experience an acceptable form of criticism and rejection, to develop physical coordination, and to teach the social behaviors of turn-taking, rule-setting, cooperation, and playful competition. Rhyming games take several forms, falling roughly into these overlapping categories: circle dances (eg. Ring-a-ring o’ roses/rosie); clapping games (A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea); arch or catching or “dipping” games (Oranges and Lemons); selection or counting out games (Ice-cream soda Delaware Punch); and skipping or jump-rope rhymes (Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around). Childhood rhymes and rhyming games can be traced back to as early as the 17th century in the English language, and like most songs and poetry passed down orally through the generations — especially those enjoyed by children — the rhymes can be found and remembered in many different national, regional and cultural variations.

Here is a selection of rhymes and games that I remember from my childhood (which was spent variously in England, America, Australia, and the Soviet Union) …

Circle games:

Ring-a-ring o’ roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down (British)

Ring-a-round a rosie, A pocket full of posies, Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down (American)

Selection and counting games (many of these double up as skipping or jump-rope rhymes):

Eenie meenie macaraca – Rare raa dominaca – Knickerbocka lollypoppa – Om pom push

Eenie meenie miney moe – Catch a tigger by the toe – If he hollers let him go – Eenie meenie miney moe

One potato, two potato ,three potato, four; five potato, six potato, seven potato, more

Ingle angle silver bangle, ingle angle oooh; ingle angle silver bangle, out goes you

Ip dip sky blue, I’m it not you

Racing car, number nine, losing petrol all the time; how many gallons did he lose? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

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Big Mac Filet O Fish Hand Game Lyrics

Rich man, poor man, beggar man thief; doctor, lawyer, Indian chief

Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out; turn a dirty dishcloth inside out; once if it’s dirty, twice if it’s clean; ibble obble black bobble, you are out

Bluebells, cockle shells, eevy ivy over! My mother sent me to the store, and this is what she sent me for: Salt, vinegar, peppers. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.

Cinderella dressed in yella, went upstairs to see her fella, made a mistake and kissed a snake, how many doctors did it take? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

Teddy bear teddy bear turn around; teddy bear teddy bear touch the ground; teddy bear teddy bear tie your shoe, teddy bear teddy bear how old are you? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

Ice cream soda, Delaware Punch, Tell me the name of my honey-bunch. A, B, C, etc.

Arch or catching songs:

Oranges and lemons,
say the bells of St. Clement’s;
You owe me five farthings,
say the bells of St. Martin’s;
When will you pay me?
say the bells of Old Bailey;
When I grow rich,
say the bells of Shoreditch;
When will that be?
say the bells of Stepney;
I do not know,
says the great bell of Bow;
Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
and here comes a chopper to chop off your head: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

(An alternative – and longer – version begins with the verse: “Gay go up and gay go down, To ring the bells of London town”.)

Who has stole my watch and chain,
watch and chain, watch and chain;
who has stole my watch and chain,
My fair lady?
Off to prison you must go,
you must go, you must go;
off to prison you must go,
My fair lady

Clapping rhymes:

Under the bram bush
under the tree (boom boom boom)
True love for you my darling
True love for me
And when we’re married, we’ll raise a family
With a girl for you and a boy for me
How’s your father? Sexy!

I went to a Chinese restaurant, to buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread
he wrapped it up in a five pound note and this is what he said, said, said:
My Name is L-I-L-I chickle-li chickle-li,
Pompom beauty, extra cutie

alt:
Elvis Presley, girls are sexy,
Sitting on the back seat drinking Pepsi

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To see what he could see see see
But all that he could see see see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man;
Bake me a cake as fast as you can;
Roll it and pat it and mark it with B,
and put it in the oven for Baby and me

Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old

Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco
on the telephone line
The line broke
The goose got choked
And they all went to heaven
in a little rowboat

One two three together
up together
down together
back side knees together
Boom!

Ms Mary Mack Mack Mack
all dressed in black black black
with silver buttons buttons buttons
all down her back back back
she asked her mother mother mother
for fifteen cents cents cents
to see the elephants elephants elephants
jump over the fence fence fence
they jumped so high high high
they reached the sky sky sky
and didn’t come back back back
til the forth of july ly ly
july dont walk walk walk
july dont talk talk talk
july dont eat eat eat
down by my feet feet feet.

Stella Ella Ola – the version from Staten Island, NY:

Quack a dilly oso quack quack quack
Senorita your momma smells like pizza
Dalor, dalor, I’ll kick you out the door
Dalor 1 2 3 4

Miss Susie had a tugboat
The tugboat had a bell
Miss Susie went to heaven
The tugboat went to…
Hello operator
Please Give me number nine
And if you disconnect me
I’ll kick you in the…
Behind the ‘frigerator
There was a piece of glass
Miss Susie fell upon it
And broke her big fat…
Ask me no more questions
Tell me no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
Zipping up their…
Flies are the meadow
The bees are in the park
The boys and girls are kissing
Way past after dar-ar-ar-ar-ark!

Charlie Chaplin went to France
To teach the ladies how to dance.
First the heel, then the toe,
Then the splits, and around you go!
Salute to the Captain,Bow to the Queen,
And turn your back on the Nazi submarine!

Have you ever, ever, ever in your short legged life seen a short legged sailor with a short legged wife?
No I’ve never, never, never in my short legged life seen a short legged sailor with a short legged wife.
Have you ever, ever, ever in your long legged life seen a long legged sailor with a long legged wife?
No I’ve never, never, never, in my long legged life seen a long legged sailor with a long legged wife.
Have you ever, ever, ever, in your knock-kneed life seen a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife?
No I’ve never, never, never in my knock-kneed life seen a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife
Have you ever, ever, ever in your short legged life seen a long legged sailor with a knock-kneed wife?
No I’ve never, never, never in my short legged life seen a long legged sailor with a knock-kneed wife.