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A Ram Sam Sam

"A Ram Sam Sam (A rum sum sum)"
Song
Written Morocco
Songwriter(s) Traditional

"A Ram Sam Sam (A rum sum sum)" is a popular children's song and game which originated in Morocco.About this sound Play . In certain later recordings, other variants were used like "Aram" instead of "A Ram" and "Zam Zam" instead of "Sam Sam".

The song's lyrics are usually:

When not played as a game, this song can also be (and very frequently is) sung as a round.

The game is played by a group of children. The song is sung by the group leader and the participants should perform several actions during certain lyrics, usually:

A version of the song by Liverpool folk group The Spinners, who claimed to have learned the song from an Israeli singer and that the words were in Aramaic, had the following lyrics:

The translation they gave was "Get up on your horse and gallop away". When they performed the song, the group would make it an audience-participation song, splitting the audience into two halves and encouraging them to sing it as a round.


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