The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Old Mary Mack Mack
All dressed in black black
With silver buttons buttons
All down her back back
She asked her mother mother
For fifty cents cents
To see the elephant jump the fence fence
He jumped so high high
He touched the sky sky
He never came back back
To the Fourth of July lie lie.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): SONG

Date learned: 00001970S