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[DONNE]

HALLO I LOOKING FOR SONGS ABOUT ANIMALS TO PLAY FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN ON MY EC
THANKS ANYWAY
DONNE

[JimLucas]

HALLO I LOOKING FOR SONGS ABOUT ANIMALS TO PLAY FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN ON MY EC

In English, Flemish, or French?

Or some other language?

I'm pretty much limited to English-language suggestions. Here are a few:

• Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm (all sorts of animals)
• The Barnyard Song (another all sorts)
• Go Tell Aunt Rhody (the old grey goose is dead)
• The Old Grey Mare (ain't what she used to be)
• You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out (by Malvina Reynolds)
• How Much Is That Doggie in the Window (old pop song)
• Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow (another old pop song)
• The Cat Came Back
• The Body In the Bag (about a cat)
• Froggie Went A-Courting
• ...... and many more

But I would suggest you look into the song database at Mudcat Cafe. Search on the name of any animal, and you'd be surprised what you might find. A search on "goat" got me so many songs that I didn't bother counting them, but I'd guess about 50. You're bound to find something suitable for kids.

Edited to add: And if you would also be interested tunes with animal names though without words, try:

• The Kid On the Mountain
• The One-Horned Sheep
• The Cat In the Hopper
• The Eel In the Sink
• Langstrom's Pony
• Saddle the Pony
• ...... and many more

Edited by JimLucas, 12 February 2012 - 05:44 PM.

[DONNE]

THANKS LUCAS

[David Barnert]

If you want something a little more challenging (but rewarding), how about Bill Staines' "A Place in the Choir" (All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir).

[Rod]

HALLO I LOOKING FOR SONGS ABOUT ANIMALS TO PLAY FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN ON MY EC
THANKS ANYWAY
DONNE

'THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY' 7 different creatures in one set of lyrics. How's that for value !

[davidcorner]

There's always the Flanders & Swann song book, including

The Hippopotamus Song
(Mud, mud glorious mud!)

The Gnu Song
(I heard that the word gnu was pronounced with a silent G until they got their G-nashers into it)

any many more.

[John Wild]

Nelly the elephant?