A Scots clapping rhyme welcoming Daddy home, sung while clapping baby's hands together. The dialect words, 'wee, wee ain' and 'hame', give it a lovely lilt that babies respond to well before they understand them.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Clap, clap handies,
Mammie's wee, wee ain;
Clap, clap handies,
Daddie's comin' hame,
Hame till his bonny wee bit laddie;
Clap, clap handies,
My wee, wee ain.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition