Answer:
What has 3 feet but cannot walk?
Come up and let us go. Go down and here we stay
What goes up when the rain comes down?
Take one out and scratch my head I am now black but once was red.
My first is a body of water. My second is me. My third came before. My fourth before all three. My fifth sounds like my first. My sixth is in a lake. Put all six together to make an animal that will keep you awake.
What covers its face with its hands, speaks no language, yet most known what it's saying?