SONGS

Animal Fair
San Gabriel Valley Council
Tune can be found at
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/animalfair.htm

I went to the Animal Fair
The birdsand the beasts were there
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair

You should have seen the monk
He sat on the elephant's trunk
The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees
And that was the end of the monk

The monk, the monk, the monk,
Said a flea to a fly in a flue
Said the flea "Oh what shall we do?"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"; said the flea, "Let us fly!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue

I went to the Animal Fair
The birds and the beasts were there
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair

You should have seen the monk
He sat on the elephant's trunk
The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees
And that was the end of the monk
The monk, the monk, the monk,
The monk, the monk, the monk?

Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
San Gabriel Valley Council
tune at: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bekindto.htm

Be kind to your web-footed friends
For a duck may be somebody's mother,
Be kind to your friends in the swamp [Alternate line:
Where the weather is always damp.

You may think that this is the end,
Well it is, but to prove we're all liars,
We're going to sing it again,
Only this time we'll sing a little higher.

[Repeat the song but sing it a bit higher. The last verse is:]

You may think that this is the end, well it is. . . .

 

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
tune at: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/hippo.htm
Words and Music by John Rox
San Gabriel Valley Council

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
That’s the easy thing to do
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian.

(Short Music Interlude)

There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too

Kookaburra
San Gabriel Valley Council
tune at: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bekindto.htm
Written By: Marion Sinclair Copyright Unknown

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh , Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra! Kookaburra!
Gay your life must be

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Counting all the monkeys he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop,
That’s not a monkey that’s me

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Eating all the gum drops he can see
Stop, Kookaburra! Stop! Kookaburra!
Leave some there for me!

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail
Gets a boo-boo in his tail
Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, Kookaburra
Oh how life can be!

A Kookaburra is an Australian bird. The “gum drops” that the kookaburra eats in the song are beads of sap that form on the gum tree (also call a Eucalyptus tree). Their call is often used in movies as monkey/jungle sounds, even thought they don’t live in the jungle.