by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
Someone’s Gonna Use It after You
1. When you stand at the sink did you ever think
About the water going down the drain?
That it used to be in the deep blue sea
And before that it was rain!
Then it turned to snow for an Eskimo
To use in a snowball fight!
Then it traveled south till it reached your mouth
To help you brush your teeth tonight!
Chorus:
Someone’s gonna use it after you
So leave it as you’d like it when you’re through.
Cause the water, land, and air.
These are things we’ve got to share.
Someone’s gonna use it after you!
2. When you sneeze like thunder
Did you ever wonder if the air you set in motion,
Might have helped to form a tropical storm
Way out in the western ocean.
Could have been blown out of a blue whale’s spout
As it dove beneath the sea!
And now that air is in your care till you finish with your sneeze
Chorus II: Someone needs to breathe it after you
3. Like a wheel the world is turning
Forest green and sky of blue
It will turn that way forever
As the old is born anew
Chorus
by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
The Green Shoes Walk
1. It’s a walk; it’s a certain kind of attitude!
Giving mother earth some gratitude,
For the lakes, the rivers, the trees, and the grass,
We’ve got to care about them if we want them all to last!
Pick it up, never throw it on the street,
Cause we’ve got our green shoes on our feet.
The water, the air, it’s important to us.
We’re gonna show the world that we’re serious!
Chorus:
We’re gonna walk that green shoes walk – don’t just talk about it,
Walk that walk . . . . Walk that walk!
2. See the children in the park having so much fun
We’ve got to clean it up, save it for the little ones!
In the city, in the country, all around the world,
We’ve got to build a beautiful future
For all the boys and girls!
Every day we hear the stories and it’s making us nervous
We’ve got to give the planet more than just lip service!
What’s the use of crying bout the ozone layer?
We’ve got to heal it now, don’t wait till later.
Chorus:
Walk that green shoes walk don’t just talk about it,
Walk that walk. Come on now walk, walk, walk, walk . . . . . . . walk that walk!
3. Grab your brother or your sister, don’t work alone
You can make a major difference starting here at home
Now’s the time to raise our voices.
Come on get on down and make some choices!
Recycle all your bottles and your soda cans
Don’t leave the water running when you wash your hands.
Get your friends together and plant some trees.
Bring your own bag for your groceries.
Don’t waste paper, turn down the heat.
And when it comes to driving everywhere, use your feet!
Check the package out before you pay the bill
Or most of what you buy will end up in a landfill!
Chorus:
Walk that green shoes walk; don’t just talk about it,
Walk that walk. … Walk that walk.
4. The animals and flowers and humanity
Make up the leaves and branches of our family tree
Walk that walk, walk that walk
So put some love in everything you say and do!
It’s gonna make a circle and come back to you!
Walk that walk . . . walk that walk
by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
Put on Your Green Shoes
Gather round children and you will hear,
The sound of a cricket callin in your ear.
That’s Mother Nature, she’s cryin’ out loud,
“This old world, it needs some lovin’ now,” so
(Chorus) Put on yyour green shoes, Put on your green shoes,
Mother Nature sh’e callin’ to you
Just put on your green shoes.
Put on your green shoes and walk with me,
We’ll go around back and plant a tree.
Help it grow and you will see
The way the world was meant to be.
(Chorus)
I wonder how the world would be,
Without the shade of the redwood tree,
Without all the fish, the birds and the bees,
Springtime would be lonely.
(chorus)
Mother Nature she’s callin’ to you to put on your green shoes
(Chorus)
Mother Nature she’s countin’ on you
To put on your green shoes
by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
We Love Trees
Chorus: Trees (kids echo) Trees
(4 times) Trees Trees
We Love Trees
We love chestnut, linden, apple, olive, and the aspen tree
Oak, elm, cedar, walnut and the hickory
There’s the cherry, redwood, cottonwood
And the dogwood tree
And what’s the biggest tree of all?
That’s the sequoia tree!
(Chorus)
There’s the birch, fir, coconut, and the mulberry,
We get that tasty syrup from the sugar maple tree.
There’s the eucalyptus, blue spruce, and the rubber tree,
And we love that ponderosa pine,
And our palmetto tree!
(Chorus)
Trees are good for animals and people, birds, and bugs.
Trees are good for other trees,
And plants and air and slugs.
Trees are like our brothers and our sisters to the end
So . . .plant a tree, hug a tree, make a new friend . . .
(Chorus)
by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
An Apple Chant
Apples in the attic,
Apples in the hall,
Apples in the summer,
Apples in the fall.
Apples make you healthy,
Apples make you tall.
I will eat some apples,
I will eat them all!
THE TRAIN is a chant that begins very very slowly and builds to very fast. Sit in a circle. All children move item at same time from right to left (or left to right) It can be a bean bags or little blocks make a little clack. Pick up right – put down left. The 1-2 rhythm of the pass movement helps a child feel chant plus it’s kind of fun when the train “eventually” gets going real fast and you have a pile up of cars!
Lines are simple. Start very slowly and build to fast repeating verses.
The Train
The train is running along the track . . .
The train is running along the track . . .
Clickety Clack,
Clickety Clack
The train is running along the track
The train is running along the track
Clickety Clack
Clickety Clack
We,ve got to get back
We’ve got to get back
Clickety Clack
Clickety Clack
Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
To help kids learn each other’s names it is “Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar.” I think I might substitute sneaked for stole and have children whisper it to start. Children sit in circle. Start with a patch, clap, snap rhythm. The point is to call the name of another child in the circle. Set the rhythmic tempo then add words. The choric speech goes like this:
First child says: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Other children Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
First child says Jean stole the cookie from the cookie jar!
Jean says Who me?
Everyone says Yes you!
Jean says Couldn’t be.
Everyone: Then who?
Jean says John stole the cookie from the cookie jar
John says Who me?
Everyone says Yes you!
John says I stole the cookie from the cookie jar! ( He holds up the cookie and walking behind the children(eyes closed) gives it to someone else – if you use a cookie)
My Little Sports Car (Pretend to steer car and add extra sounds !)
In my little sports car riding,
Riding down the street,
Hit a big bump XX (clap) Oh no
Tires goine flat XX Won’t go!
In my little sports car riding,
Riding down the street,
Slowed right down XX Oh no,
All out of gas XX Won’t go!
In my sports car riding,
Riding down the street,
Hit a big splash XX Oh no,
Motors all wet XX Won’t go!
Music Everywhere
There’s music in walking and talking in rhyme.
There’s music in singing and moving in time.
There’s music in playing an instrument sweet.
In skipping and laughing and tapping our feet.
There’s music in raindrops and a tiny little seed.
There’s music to make, to hear, and to read.
by Susan Dean | Feb 7, 2018 | Music
GREEN SHOES BLUES
Verse1:
Let me tell you about my new pair of extra special magical green shoes.
Don’t need gassing or recharging,
And we make no pollution when we cruise.
So I took a walk this morning
In my green shoes to spread the news.
Verse2:
We were skipping down the sidewalk in the neighborhood,
Just smiling in the sun,
When my green shoes got caught
In a wad of yucky gooey bubble gum.
And I slipped and fell into a bogus pile of trash,
And that’s no fun.
I saw those two green faces.
My shoes looked so depressed.
Teardrops on their laces,
They said oooooo what a mess!
Chorus:
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Yeah get real. Don’t be a heel.
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Verse 3:
I went down to the seashore to take my green shoes strolling in the sand,
Instead of seashells what we found was more bottles, paper, Styrofoam, and cans.
And I wondered how I could make my little green sneakers understand.
And those little soles looked up at me and said,
What Mother nature gives us is really very cool,
So if you dig pollution, you’re nothing but a fool.
Chorus:
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
If you use a can, recycle it man.
I mean don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Verse 4:
Well my green shoes were happy like when I put them on this morning,
They sounded like this *! !** *! **
And when I stepped in that mess
They sounded more like this: / / /
Chorus
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
Show the earth what she’s really worth.
Don’t give my green shoes the blues.
The Green Shoes Walk
