"Stella Ella Ola" (Stella Stella Ola), also known as "Quack Dilly Oso", is a clapping game where players stand or sit in a circle placing one hand over their neighbour's closer hand and sing the song. On every beat, a person claps their higher hand onto the touching person's palm. The cycle continues until the song ends at which point if the person's hand is slapped, they are considered "out" and must stand or sit in the center of the circle, or leave the circle and watch this from the edges.
Lyrics
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Singing es, chico, chico
Chico, chico, clap, clap
Es chico, chico
Bologna, bologna
Cheese and macaroni
So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
Another common version is:
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Singing es, chico, chico
Chico, chico, clap, clap
Say es chico, chico
Aloha, Aloha
The toilet's overflowing
Say a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!
Yet another common version is:
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Taiga yes, taiga no, taiga taiga taiga!
Baloney, baloney
Cheesy macaroni
Fire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
A common variant of Stella Ella Ola, Quack Dilly Oso,[1] follows the same game rules:
Quack a dilly oso
Quack quack qua-ack
Señorita
Your mama smells like pizza
Fellow, fellow
I’ll kick you out the door, fellow
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...10!
With potentially some variations. The most common of these include substituting “Rita Rita Rita” for “Your mama smells like pizza”, replacing “fellow” with “galore” or “flora” or nonsense words such as “galora” and “delora”, and rendering the name and first line as any of a number of similar variations (“Quack Diddly Oso”, “Quack A Dilly Oh My”, “Quack A Dilly Omer”, etc.). The facts of the song’s obscure lyrics in any form and of its being mainly spread by children makes it highly susceptible to variance, so finding versions that are in any sense “definitive” is impossible—the versions listed on this page are merely intended to be representative.
Canadian regional versions
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Stella Ella Ola
Clap, clap, clap
Singin' S tiga, tiga
Tiga, tiga, chat, chat (shat, shat)
S tiga, tiga
Belowa, belowa
The toilet's overflowing
1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Singing es, Chico, Chico
Chico, Chico, chum
Say yes, Chico, Chico
Blow, blow,
Blow your dirty nose
Say 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Say' es, Chico, Chico
Chico, Chico, chap, chap
Es, Chico, Chico
Blow, blow
Blow your nose with cheerios!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10!
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Say yes, chico, chico
Chico, chico, chaw
Say yes, chico chico,
My love, my love, my love my love my love!
Say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
Stella Ella Ola
Clap, clap, clap
Say yes Chico Chico
Chico, Chico, Chop,
Say yes Chico Chico
Malo-o, Malo-o,
malo, malo malo
Say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!
American regional versions
Stella Ella ola
Flapjack flapjack
Es chiga chiga
Chiga chiga flapjack
Go slow go slow go slow
1, 2, 3, 4…
Stella Ella ola
Clap clap clap
Saying death to the old ones
Tiga tiga shack shack
Death to the old ones
Valo valo valo valo valo va
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Stella Ella ola
Clap clap clap
Saying es tiga tiga
Tiga tiga shack shack
Es tiga tiga
Valo valo valo valo valo va
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Slap dilly oh so,
Slap slap slap
San sandorica
Rica rica rica,
Delores, delor's delor lor lor lor
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ....
Croc a dilly oh my,
Croc Croc Croc
Say cinco cinco
Cinco Cinco Sacka Lacka
Fall-ow Fall-ow
Stick your head in jello
Your face is turning yellow
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, …
Pass it to my old man
Pass pass pass
I said it to my chica
Chica chica cha
Melon melon melon melon melon
5,4,3,2,1
Quack a dilly oh my,
Quack Quack Quack,
Dancing Katrina,
Trickle trickle track,
Fellow fellow,
Stick your head in jello,
J-E-L-L-O
Stella Ella Ola,
Clap, clap, clap
Es, chica, chica
Chica, chica, flapjack
Go! Slow!
Go slow, go slow
1, 2, 3, 4!
Variations
Two players
Players slap both hands up and down. In some variations, they continue to alternate until the final count, where the person whose hands are on the bottom is out.
Players grab each other's right hand just by the fingers and then hold their left hands out to the side. They move their linked right hands from side to side, hitting a left hand on each count. If that child swings her or his hand away on the last count, the other loses.
Players hold hands and on the last count, they try to pull the other person over a line.
Players hold hands, with one players arms crossed, and swing their hands side to side so that the player with crossed arms changes. Whoever ends with their arms crossed (or doesn't, depending on where you are) wins. Sometimes you are allowed to pull each other's arms crossed at the end to see who wins.
Three players
In one three-player version, one player will turn around and the other two players will hold hands and alternate positions. At the end, the person who is turned around will say either top or bottom. The hand who is in that position is champ.
In another, which can be played with as many people as players wish, but has a minimum of three players, all participants sit in a circle. Their right hand rests on top of the left hand of the player on their right. One person starts, by lifting their right hand, and slapping the right hand of the player on their left. At the end, the person who has the last slap will either slap the hand of the person beside them, or that person will yank their hand away, causing the slapper to hit their own hand. The player that is hit is then out. If no one is hit, the player who was slapping is out.
Appearances in other media
The lyrics sung in the game make an appearance in track 10 of Børns' album Blue Madonna "Supernatural".
The game also makes an appearance in season 6 episode 3 of the CBC show Mr. D.
A variant was sung on Sesame Street to demonstrate the letter Q.
