Make a fist with one hand, then pop out one finger at a time. Then spread your arms open wide and clap.
This singing game is usually done with older children with one child in the centre for the farmer. In the last verse she chooses a partner to swing with and then that child becomes the farmer. [We skip the kiss] With small children we all dance together and swing with our own child and give them a kiss.
2. First the farmer plants his seed.
And turns around to view his land.
3. Waiting for a partner, Waiting for a partner.
And kiss them 'fore we start again.