RE: aqua

[David & Susan Esterman <estermans...>]

How it goes in NZ is
Qua ca della ora qua qua qua
A disi matrico chicka-chicka-chak
Velo velo velo velo velo
Echad shtayim shelosh arba

To play it you sit in a circle and your right hand is placed on top of your
neighbour's left hand,  ()and obviously your left hand is under their right
hand)
As the chant goes, so does a hand-slap pass around the circle and when you
get to the numbers, the person who is to be slapped on arba has to pull
their hand away BEFORE it gets slapped to stay in the game. If unsuccessful,
that person drops out and the game continues. If successful, the slapper has
to drop out.
When we get down to two, Kiwi tradition has the game won on the outcome of a
hand wrestling match!

Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Judith R Cohen
Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2001 4:20 a.m.
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: aqua

Hi, I've had a request for information about this kid's game-rhyme -
anyone know it?cheers, Judith

> Aqua qua, dela oma, qua, qua, qua, qua, qua
> esti matrico a ba shelha kofiko
> ima shelha hipopotam veata hamor katan
>


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