This song is available on Hap Palmer's Two Little Sounds: Fun with Phonics And Numbers.
Subjects:
• Rhyming Words
• Word families: uba, et, um, one, ute,
in, al, ello, orn, oe, et, arp, oon, ace
• Instruments of the orchestra
Vocabulary:
Orchestra, tuba, trumpet, drum,
trombone, flute, violin, cymbal, cello, French
horn, oboe, clarinet, harp, viola, bassoon, bass
Activity:
Sing along with this call-andresponse
favorite and pantomime playing the
instruments as they are named.
Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow
Back to this place I dare not go
For if I do, my mother will say
Did you ever see a tuba swimming off to Cuba?
Down by the bay
Repeat Verse 1 with:
Did you ever see a trumpet
munching on a crumpet?
Did you ever see a drum chewing bubble-gum?
Did you ever see a trombone
gnawing on a dog’s bone?
Did you ever see a flute shake a parachute?
Did you see a violin kiss a monkey on the chin?
Repeat Verse 1 with:
Did you ever see a cymbal
sipping from a thimble?
Did you ever see a cello eat a bowl of Jello?
Did you ever see a French horn
munch a bag of pop corn?
Did you ever see an oboe dancing with a hobo?
Did you see a clarinet take a kitten to the vet?
Did you ever see a harp
playing checkers with a carp?
Did you see a viola eating some granola?
Did you see a bassoon talking to the moon?
Did you ever see a bass race a rocket into space?
Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow
Back to this place I dare not go
For if I do my mother will say
Let the orchestra play ‘til the break of day
Down by the bay
(Whole orchestra plays)
Follow-up:
Listen to the instrumental version
of this song (#20) and call out the name of
instruments you can recognize by sound. Can
you think of instruments that were not featured
in this song? Examples: saxophone, piano,
piccolo, harmonica, tambourine.
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