Children’s Songs Table of Contents
1. Songs every child should know:
I have my thoughts. Please tell me yours.
Contact me at hope4you (at) centurytel.net.
2. Oral hygiene songs
(Just my thoughts—
talk to your dentist for reliable information).
3. Questions for Older Students
4. “What Happened to You?”
Songs Every Child Should Know
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star/
The ABC Song
Jesus Loves Me
Amazing Grace
Itsy Bitsy Spider
America/My Country ‘Tis of Thee
Big Rock Candy Mountain (“jellybean trees”)
BINGO
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
Do You Know the Muffin Man
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
The Farmer in the Dell
Home on the Range
Old Macdonald Had a Farm
Go Tell It on the Mountain
God Bless America
Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
This Land Is Your Land
Hot Cross Buns
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
If You’re Happy and You Know It
I’m a Little Teapot
The Hokey Pokey
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
School Days
Skip to My Lou
The Sound of Music
Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Beautiful Wisconsin
Do, Re, Mi
Edelweiss
The Little Brown Church in the Vale
Sweet Adeline
Bill Grogan’s Goat
Lavender’s Green
This Is My Father’s World
This Little Light of Mine
This Old Man
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When the Saints Go Marching In
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Yankee Doodle
You Are My Sunshine
You’re a Grand Old Flag
The Stars and Stripes Forever
The Star Spangled Banner
Happy Birthday
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Down the River
God Bless the USA
Yankee DoodleOral Hygiene Songs
(Lyrics by Dan Eumurian; original songs in italics)
Flossie the Floss Girl (Frosty the Snowman)
My Teeth Got Run Over by a Toothbrush
(Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer):
”My teeth got run over by a toothbrush
Right after a party Christmas night.
People say that Rudolph’s nose was shiny;
They should see my teeth all shiny white!”
Questions for Older Students
I don’t have any biological children, but I’ve taught thousands of kids as a music teacher or as a sub in other subjects. When my high school students have a bit of free time, I’ll ask them four questions: Do you have a favorite school subject? A sport? A hobby? A career goal? Based on their response, I try to help them expand their thinking or encourage them to do a creative activity.
Questions About Disabilities
Younger children often ask about my crutches. I tell them that we have two kinds of nerves: sensory nerves that send messages to the brain, and motor nerves that send messages to the muscles. I act out a skit in which my leg muscles don’t get the message because the polio virus has burned out the battery in that cell phone, so my brain calls my arm muscles and asks them to pick up my crutches and help me get around. Here’s a poem that was a favorite of my friend Jean Feraca, who used to host a call-in show on Wisconsin Public Radio:
What Happened to You?
Dan Eumurian
Folks are always asking me,
”Did you fall out of a tree?
Did you slip and hurt your leg?
Can you work, or do you beg?”
People don't know what to say--
Offer help or turn away.
If it's not too great a task,
Won't you please feel free to ask?
Children, innocent and true, say,
"What happened, sir, to you?"
I take time my tale to lend;
Oftentimes I make a friend.
Used to be that we were slapped
With a tag called "handicapped."
If you think I must be labeled,
You may say, "Partially disabled."
Part of my motion has been tabled;
My demise, though, is just fabled.
Fault may be mine or lie with none.
Fight the causes, find the fun!
"Crippled," from Old English "creep,"
No more is a term we keep.
You may say it; I won't slam it.
I may do it, not I am it.
I say, "Take me as I am.
Every fruit gets in a jam.
Lass and lad each has a lack.
Watch the way
I happen
Back.
Then I tell the kids I’m going to see if one disability means I’m unable to do anything, or if my fingers might possibly work. I go to the piano, play a bit of the second section of “Overture to William Tell” by Rossini (the section I call “The Alarm Clock Song”), and then rip into the presto section—the famous “Lone Ranger” theme.