Favourite nursery rhymes and songs

[mamasanace]

Tess LOVES us singing the old Cab Calloway song Minnie the Moocher (from the Blues Brothers movie)

Now folks let me tell you the story about MInnie (Tessie) the moocher
She was a lowdown hoochie-coocher
She was the roughest, toughes frail
But Minnie (Tessie) had a heart as big as a whale

Hidey Hidey Hidey Hi (Hidey Hidey Hidey Hi)
Hodey Hodey Hodey Ho (Hodey Hodey Hodey Ho)
Heedey Heedey Heedey He (Heedey Heedey Heedey He)

etc etc.

I think we must look funny singing the Hidey Hi's as she always cracks up and laughs and laughs at us which eggs us on.

It's on You Tube if you need the music!

[ellen21]

hmmm.......my favourite is
please open your umbrella.

please open your umbrella,
please open your umbrella,
please open your umbrella,
and shield me from the rain

The shower is nearly over,
The shower is nearly over,
The shower is nearly over,
so shut it up again.

its very easy for small ones to remember

[flx89]

great songs. to bad i don't have a good voice,my baby starts crying when i sing.

[MagicSeahorse]

Here are 2 that I wrote myself. We sing in the bath and I keep running out of songs before the bath is over.

The Little Mer-man

Deep beneath the ocean
Far beneath the sea
lives a little merman
who's much like you and me
He has ten little fingers
and a little button nose,
but down where his feet should be
there's fins instead of toes

oh funny little merman
swimming in the sea
funny little merman
he's just like you and me
he has a bright red mouth to kiss
and little shell like ears
and a mummy and a daddy
to take away his fears

oh funny little merman
swimming in the sea
funny little merman
he's much like you and me
he has two bright blue eyes to see
and light brown wavey hair
he has two arms to hold you tight
and lots of love to share

funny little merman
swimming in the sea
funny little merman
he's much like you and me
he has ten little fingers
and a little button nose
but down where his feet should be
there's fins instead of toes.




Little Black penguin

Little back penguin
sitting on a rock
little black penguin
started to hop
he hop hopped left
he hop hopped right
he hopped all day
and he hopped all night