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Home Up Name Songs Repeat after Me Action Songs Silly Songs Slow Songs Movies & Patriotic

Action Songs

Bumble Bee

I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee (Cupping your hands)

Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?

I’m’ bringing home a baby bumble bee

Ouch it stung me..

 I’m grinding up a baby bumble bee (grinding hand together)

Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?

I’m grinding up a baby bumble bee

Yuck, it’s stuck on me

 I’m scraping off a baby bumble bee (wiping hands  together)

Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?

I’m scraping off a baby bumble bee

Gross, it’s all over me

 I’m wiping off a baby bumble bee (Wiping hands on pants)

Won’t my mommy be so proud of me?

I’m wiping off a baby bumble bee

Oh, why’d you wipe it on me?

 

Father Abraham

Father Abraham had 7 sons (7 sons)

7 sons had Father Abrham

And they never laughed (tee hee)

And they never cried (boo hoo)

All they did was go like this

With your___________

Left arm, right arm, left foot, right foot, etc….

 

Grand Old Duke of York

The grand old duke of York (marching feet)

He had ten thousand men

He marched them up the hil l(March up tall)

And then he marched them down again. (march bent over)

And when you're up you're up(Up Tall)

And when you're down you're down (Bend over)

And when you're only half way up (Slightly crouching)

You're neither up nor down.(Up them down

(Repeat several times, each time faster)

 

Down by the Banks

(sit in a circle right hands on top of the next person’s left hand)

Down by the banks of the hanky panky

Where the bullfrogs jump from bank to banky

With an eips ipes opps oupps

Off of the lily pad with a Kerplop

 

Ford Escort

A Ford Escort, (hands like on a steering wheel, driving)

A Ford Escort,

Mini, mini, mini, mini, (hands still driving, but smaller) Ford Escort

A Ford Escort,

A Ford Escort,

Mini, mini, mini, mini, Ford Escort

 

Ferrari, Ferrari, (hands over your head like wind through your hair)

Mini, mini, mini, mini, Ford Escort

Ferrari, Ferrari,

Mini, mini, mini, mini, Ford Escort

 

 

My Hat

My hat (point to head) it has three(3 fingers up) corners (point to elbow)

Three corners has my hat

And it had it not three corners

It would not be my hat

 

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 

(on every B either stand or sit)

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

My Bonnie lies over the sea

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

So bring back my Bonnie to me

Bring back

Bring back

Oh, Bring back my Bonnie to me

To me

Bring back

Bring back

Oh bring back my Bonnie to me.

 

Little Piece of Tin

I'm a little piece of tin,

Nobody knows what shape I'm in.

I've got four wheels and a running board,

I'm not Chevy, I'm not Ford.

 

Rattle Rattle Rattle (shake head)

Crash (hit forehead)

Beep Beep (tug ear)

Honk Honk

Rattle Rattle

Crash

Beep Beep

Honk Honk

 Baby Shark

Baby shark, do-do-do-do-do-do

Baby shark, do-do-do-do-do-do

Baby shark, do-do-do-do-do-do

Baby shark!

 

Verses:

I went swimming… Went swimming…Saw a shark…I swam faster…Swam faster…Shark attack…

Lost a leg…Lost an arm…Lost my head…Call 911…CPR…It's too late...Went to heaven...

Came back a baby shark

Baby shark…

 

Three Sharp Toothed Buzzards

3 sharp-tooth buzzards(make fangs with your fingers)

3 sharp-tooth buzzards

Sitting in a (clap) dead tree. (act like a tree)

Oh-no, one has flown a-way (throw up your hands)

What a shame (throw up your hands)

2 sharp-tooth buzzards…

1 sharp-tooth buzzard…

No sharp-tooth buzzards

No sharp-tooth buzzards

Sitting in a (clap) dead tree.(act like a tree)

Oh yes, one has re-turned (throw hands up)

Let us re-joice (Throw hands up)

1 sharp-tooth buzzard…

2 sharp-tooth buzzards…

3 sharp-tooth buzzards…


Peanut Butter

(Chorus)

Pea nut, peanut butter, jelly

Peanut, peanut butter, jelly

 

First you take the peanuts and you pick em (Pick at the ground)

You pick em; you pick em pick em pick em

And you smash em, and you smash um(Smash hands together)

And you smash un, smash um, smash um.

And then you spread it spread it spread it(spread on one hand)

(Chorus)

First you take the berries and you pick em (pick from the ground)

You pick em; you pick em pick em pick em

And you smash em, and you smash um (Smash hands together)

And you smash un, smash um, smash um.

And then you spread it spread it spread it. (Spread on other hand)

(Chorus)

Then you take the sandwich (Make a sandwich)

And you bite it, and you bite it (bite your sandwich)

And you bite it, bite it, bite it

And you chew it and you chew it (exaggerated chewing)

And you chew it, chew it, chew it

(Chorus garbled because of the peanut butter)

PEANUT BUTTER (shouted)

 

Ram Sam Sam

A ram sam sam(circle your hands)

A ram sam sam(circle your hands

Gooli gooli gooli gooli gooli (slide hands together) ram sam sam(circle you hands)

A ram sam sam(circle your hands)

A ram sam sam(circle your hands)

Gooli gooli gooli gooli gooli (slide hands together) ram sam sam (circle your hands)

A raffi a raffi(wave arms in the air)

Gooli gooli gooli gooli gooli (slide hands together) ram sam sam(circle your hands)

A raffi a raffi(wave arms in the air)

Gooli gooli gooli gooli gooli (slide hands together) ram sam sam(circle your hands)

 

Tarzan of the apes

I like bananas (make a banana with hands),

coconuts (make a big circle with hands)

and grapes (make little circles with hands)

I like bananas, coconuts and grapes

I like bananas, coconuts and grapes

That's why they call meTARZAN OF THE APES( Cup hands around mouth)

(start regular volume, then get softer except for end which is yelled)

 

 

Singin' in the Rain (A repeat song with a chorus)

(Chorus)

I'm singing in the rain,

Just singing in the rain,

What a glorious feeling,

I'm (clap) happy again.

Verses:  Everyone does each motion as they say it, and then they sing and dance for the last two lines, continuing the motion.

Thumbs up.

A tooty-tot, a tooty-tot, a tooty-tot-tot,

A tooty-tot, a tooty-tot, a tooty-tot-tot.

(Chorus)

(Add one at a time) Thumbs up, elbows back, knees together, butt out, head down, tongue out.

 

 

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