This song is available on Jack Grunsky's Jack in the Box 2.
Create some actions to go along with the different 'street beats' in this song. For the 'tin-can kids' you can bang safe child-proof materials together that make a percussive sound. Copy the rhythms of the different 'street beats'. Do you know any new ones that you can share?
No matter where you look
The whole world around
Different kind of kids
Make different kind of sounds
Some use their hands
Some use their feet
To make a little rhythm
To make a little beat
Street beat, street beat
Everybody knows a street beat
Down in Cape Town
Kids have fun
The 'tin-can kids'
They're number one
They have a little game
You shouldn't miss
With two tin-cans
They go like this....(x x)
In the playground
After school
Here's a beat
That's really cool
When everybody does it
It comes alive
So come on join in
Do the 'hand-jive'....(x x)
Doin' the school yard 'hand-jive'
And tin-can kids....(x x)
Street beat, street beat
Everybody knows a street beat
It's made in Austria
They say
A beat that's bound
To come this way
Slap your hands
On your knees and shoe
I'll show the "Schuhplattler" to you
Here's a hand-game
Two can play
Face your partner
Hold your hands this way
It takes some practice
Takes some time
To keep the beat
You can say this rhyme:
'Miss Meow' from Alabama
Knitting a pajama
Sitting on a rocker
Watching the clock go
Tick tock, tick tock
Chiwala wala, tick tock'
And here's a sound
It's out of sight
The strangest thing
It's dynamite!
Your face is a drum
So to speak
Cause you take your hands
And you tap your cheek...(x x)
And back we go....(Miss Meow...)
Schuhplattler....(x x)
Doin' the school yard hand-jive.(x x)
And tin-can kids....(x x)
Street beat, street beat
Everybody knows a street beat
Well by now you know
What I'm talking about
Street beats are hot
And there's no doubt
A catchy rhythm
A catchy sound
Will travel the
Whole wide world around
This song is available on Jack Grunsky's Jack in the Box 2.
