This song is available on Hap Palmers's Count, Add, Subtract!
Chorus:
Five ate thirteen tangerines
Five ate thirteen fresh sardines
Whenever you see 5 + 8
Think: Five ate thirteen
When you hear the problem
You'll know the answer
5 + 8 is (bell)... 13
Turn around the addends
You'll know the answer
8 + 5 is (bell)... 13
Repeat Chorus
You can do subtraction
You'll know the answer
13 - 5 is (bell)... 8
Make the 8 the subtrahend
You'll know the answer
13 - 8 is (bell)... 5
Repeat Chorus
Whenever you see 5 + 8
Think: Five ate thirteen, yum, yum,
Five ate thirteen!
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