The life-cycle and migration of “America’s favorite insect” are detailed here with joy and accuracy (they emerge from a chrysalis, NOT a cocoon, you know!). If you touch on butterflies at all in your lessons, this song is not to be missed! -- Lucas Miller
Before it gets cold
And it starts to snow
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go down to Mexico
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly / Fly, fly, fly
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly down to Mexico
When I was a caterpillar, just a little-bitty caterpillar
Chewing on a milkweed stem
You know I couldn't fly back then
But I began a metamorphosis
First I wrapped myself inside my chrysalis
I grew and I changed inside
Then I turned into a Monarch butterfly
Chorus
I turned into a butterfly
Late this summertime
I spent these nice, warm days
Way up in the north United States
Sticking out my long, long tongue
Tasting flowers in the sun
But winter is on the way
It's gonna get too cold to play
Chorus
So when you see this butterfly
You see this butterfly flutter by
Blow a little kiss and wave
Wish me luck along the way
Because I've got so far to go
All the way to the mountains of Mexico
Winter's not so cold down there
I'll be back when spring is in the air!
Chorus
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, yeah I'm gonna go
I'm gonna go, go, go, go down to Mexico!
This song is available on Lucas Miller's There's a Chicken on My Head!
