A lively, instructional ring game.
A lively, instructional ring game. Children form a circle while singing a call-and-response song about sending a child named Nicky to school. The person in the center must perform specific, synchronized dance moves---such as the classic Jamaican "wainin" (whining) waistline movement---on command, before tagging the next dancer.
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