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Bring Back the Bat
This song can be used both for alliteration, with a chorus of /b/ b/ b/
b/'s, and for recognizing final sound changes (bat-bad, bat-back).
We wake up when the bat goes to bed,
Don't ban the bat, don't ban the bat, He sleeps with his feet up over his head. Oh, bring back the bat. CHORUS: Bring the bat back for the balance of nature, Bring the bat back to the banks of the stream, Bring the bat back, there's a bat in your future, Be batgirl or batboy on the bat's home team. He flies like a bird but he's more like a mouse, He can't build a nest so build him a houses The bird eats mosquitos and so does the bat, Mosquitos eat me and I don't like that. CHORUS Build the bat a box and she'll catch a batch of bugs Raise little bats and give them little bat hugs. CHORUS Bats aren't bad, they're bashful and sweet And they pollinate bananas for us to eat.*
*The bats that eat bugs and the bats that pollinate flowers are not the same kind.
The pollinating bats eat nectar. You can find instructions for making a bat house in Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats by Ann Earle, illustrated by Henry Cole (HarperCollins, 1995). Our favorite bat story is Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (Harcourt, 1993). This song is performed on on
Fran Avni's Tuning Into Nature.
Many thanks to Fran Avni and Nancy Schimmel for permission to publish these lyrics.
© Nancy Schimmel and Fran Avni 1996. All rights reserved.
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