Archive for February 5th, 2010
Arlington got a furious little snowstorm on Tuesday night. Despite the weather, we had a full gathering of friends to sing these books at Aladdin’s Lamp on Wednesday morning:
- A-You’re Adorable (Words and music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise and Sidney Lippman, Illustrated by Martha Alexander)
- All Things Bright and Beautiful (Words by Cecil Francis Alexander, Traditional tune, Illustrated by Ashley Bryan)
- All God’s Critters (Words and music by Bill Staines, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
- Farmer in the Dell (Traditional words and tune, Illustrated by Ilse Plume) (We sang this song with music box accompaniment from the Fisher Price wind up musical TV/Radio)
- Marvelous Toy (Words and music by Tom Paxton, Illustrated by Steve Cox)
- Catalina Magdelena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name (Words adapted by Tedd Arnold, Traditional tune, Illustrated by Tedd Arnold)
- God Bless America (Words and Music by Irving Berlin, Illustrated by Lynn Munsinger)
- I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon (Words and Music by Jeff Moss, Illustrated by me!)
- Selections From: A Children’s Treasury of Songs, Illustrated by Linda Bleck), we sang:
“Itsy Bitsy Spider” (Traditional Words and Tune with additional/second verse of “Eensy Weensy Spider” by Raffi
“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Do You Know the Muffin Man” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Pop Goes the Weasel” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“Yankee Doodle” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” (Traditional Words and Tune) - Wheels on the Racecar (Traditional tune, Words by Alexander Zane, Illustrated by James Warhola)
