Rahel: Music

These are the songs and rhymes of childhood; baby's first steps to language learning and gaining positive social skills. This collection of songs is used in Barbara Cass-Beggs' "Listen Like Learn/Your Baby Needs Music Program", and many songs have been included in Betsy Diamant-Cohen's "Mother Goose on the Loose" program. The "Listen Like Learn" program is divided into two parts: I - Your Baby Needs Music (0-24 mos.), II - Listen Like Learn (3 year program for ages 2-7yrs) Teachers are certified by the Listen Like Learn Association in Canada, Israel and by Rahel. Contact RAHEL for more details on the program and on how to become certified.

1) Hello everybody, yes indeed, yes indeed, yes indeed. Hello everybody yes indeed, yes indeed my darling (American)

2) Hello everybody toodala, toodala, toodala! Hello everybody toodala, toodala my lady! (American)

3) We'll hit the floor together (x3) because it's fun to do! (Smack our knees, clap our hands, wave our arms, wiggle our fingers, wiggle our toes, nod our heads, sway from side to side) * Music: Traditional, Words: Barbara Cass-Beggs

4) Two little eyes to look around. Two little ears to hear a sound. One little nose to smell what's sweet. One little mouth that likes to eat!

5) I'll touch my chin, my cheek, my chair. I'll touch my head, my heels, my hair. I'll touch my knees, my neck, my nose. Then I'll dip down and touch my toes

6) These are baby's fingers. These are baby's toes.
This is baby's tummy button. Round and round it goes

7) Round and round the garden went the Teddy Bear. One step, two step, tickly under there. (English)

8) Fingers like to [wiggle waggle] x3
Fingers like to wiggle waggle way up high!
(way down low / on my knee)

9) Open-shut them, open-shut them, give a little clap
Open-shut them, open-shut them, put them in your lap. Creep them, creep them creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin. Open up your little mouth, but do not let them in!

10) Clap, clap, clap your hands. Clap your hands together x2 (stomp feet, wave arms, nod head, sway, etc.)

11) See my fingers dance and play. Fingers dance for me today. See my ten toes dance and play. Ten toes dance for me today. (English)

12) Windshield wiper, windshield wiper, what do you do all day? Slip-slap, slip-slap. I wipe the rain away.
(Move your hands, then baby's hands from side to side)

13) The little train ran up the track. It went toot, toot and then it came back. (Hands run up one arm of baby then the other)

14) Two little dickybirds sitting on a cloud. One named soft AND THE OTHER NAMED LOUD! Fly away soft, FLY AWAY LOUD. Come back soft, COME BACK LOUD! (words adapted by Barbara Cass-Beggs)

15) Stretch up high, stretch down low. Stretch your arms in the middle so. Words & Music: Barbara Cass-Beggs

16) Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, bake me a cake as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with ?B?, and put in the oven for baby and me. (English Nursery Rhyme)
17) To market, to market to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggety ? jig! To market, to market to but a fat hog, home again, home again jiggety ? jog!
To market, to market to buy a currant bun, home again, home again market is done.
To market, to market to buy a pound of butter, home again, home again throw it in the gutter!

18) Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse. With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes.

19) One, two, three - baby's on my knee, cock she crows and UP she goes! (Down, off)
20) Trot, trot, trot to Boston, trot, trot, trot to Lynn. Look out everyone you are falling in!
Trot, trot, trot to London, trot, trot, trot to Dover. Look out everyone you are falling over!

21) This is the way the ladies ride - nim, nim, nim. This is the way the gentlemen ride - trim, trim, trim.
This is the way the farmers ride - trot, trot, trot. This is the way the huntsmen ride - gallop, a-gallop...

22) Mother and Father and Uncle John went to market one by one. Mother fell off! Father fell off! But Uncle John went on and on and on and on...

23) See the pony galloping, galloping down the country road [x2] See the pony coming home all tired out, all tired out.

24) Dancing up and dancing down, now we're really going to town. Dancing out and dancing in now our fun it will begin. (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

25) This is Bill Anderson. This is Tom Trim. Tom asked Bill to play with him. Bill over Tom - Tom over Bill...

26) Leg over leg as the dog went to Dover. When he came to a stile, JUMP he went over!

27) Pitty patty polt, shoe a wild colt. Here's a nail and here's a prod, pitty patty polt!
28) Shoe the little horse. Shoe the little mare. But let the little colt run bare, bare, bare!

29) Can you kick with two feet, two feet, two feet? Can you kick with two feet. Kick, kick, kick, kick...
(wave with two arms *nod with one head *kiss with two lips *sway from side to side)

30) This little piggie went to market, this little piggie stayed home. This little piggie had roast beef, this little piggie had none. And this little piggie cried, wee wee wee wee - all the way home!
31) See-saw Scaradown, this is the way to (Jerusalem) town. One knee up and the other knee down, this is the way to London town.

32) See-saw Marjorie Daw, Jenny shall have a new master. She shall have but a penny a day because she can't go any faster.
33) Row, row, row your boat - gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.

34) Here's a ball for baby big and soft and round. This is baby's hammer see how it can pound. This is baby's music clapping clapping so. These are baby's soldiers standing in a row. This is baby's trumpet toot-a-toot-a-too. This is how our baby plays at peek-a-boo. Here's a big umbrella to keep our baby dry. Now our baby's sleepy lulla ? lullaby. (Emile Poulson)

35) Good morning Mr. Perky-Bird, Perky-Bird, Perky-Bird. Good-morning Mr. Perky-Bird, where are you?
I'm flying in the air-the air, the air-the air, the air- the air. I'm flying in the air - the air and down to the ground.

36) See the aero plane up in the sky flying around and ever so high. Now it's circling round and round. Now it's coming down to the ground. Whrr. Whrr. Whrr. Whrr? (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

37) I went to visit a farm today. I saw a (cow) across the way. And what do you think the (cow) did say? (Moo, moo, moo) - suggest other animals and their sounds! (Anon.)

38) When the (cats) get up in the morning they always say (Meow) x2 (suggest other animals and their sounds)

39) I'm driving in my car (x2) Beep, beep, toot, toot - I'm driving in my car (Driving very fast, driving very slow) *Traditional, Words adapted by Barbara Cass-Beggs

40) The eency weency spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. So the eency-weency spider climbed up the spout again.
(The GREAT BIG spider?) 41) This is the way we [wash our face] x3 This is the way we wash our face so early in the morning. (Comb our hair, brush our teeth, dress ourselves etc.)

42) Peek-a-boo I see you, I see you hiding there. Peek-a-boo I see you, I see you hiding in there.

43) Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes we all fall down!
The cows are in the meadow, lying fast asleep. Along came a bee, buzz - they all jumped up!
The king has sent his daughter to fetch a pail of water. Ashes, ashes we all jump up!
The robin in the steeple is singing to the people. Ashes, ashes we all stand up!

44) Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon. Sally go round the chimney pots on Sunday afternoon, Oh!

44A) Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon. Sally go round the cholent pot on Shabbas afternoon, Oh! (suggested by Hadassah Mantinband)

45) Here we go upperty-up; here we go downerty-down. Here we go upperty-up, with the sweetest baby in town. Here we go in in in in, here we go out out out out. Here we go in in in in, and we turn ourselves about. (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

46) Handy spandy, sugary candy we all jump up (down - in ? out)

47) Who's that tapping at the window? Who's that knocking at the door? Mommy's tapping at the window. Daddy's knocking at the door. * an excellent song for introducing soft and loud. (American)

48) This is what I can do, see if you can do it too.
This is what I can do, now I?ll pass it on to you. (Traditional, J. Haines)

49) I hear thunder, I hear thunder. Hark don?t you, hark don?t you? Pitter patter raindrops, pitter patter raindrops. I?m wet through, I?m wet through. (Music: Frere Jacques, words adapted by Barbara Cass-Beggs)

50) Tiger creeping through the night. Tigers? eyes are very bright. Tiger creeping very slow. When he sees you he says, ?Roar!?

51) We'll ring our bells together. (x3) Because it's fun to do Ring them up high, ring them down low, and ring them in the middle. (Shake our rattles, play our instruments etc.)
52) Ring up high, ring down low, ring your bells in the middle so. (shake up high...*play up high...) (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

53) Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are? (Traditional)

54) Oh, do you know the ice-cream man, the ice-cream man, the ice-cream man? Do you know the ice-cream man who lives down on our street? His bell goes tingle, tingle (x3) As he goes down our street. (Traditional English, words adapted by Barbara Cass-Beggs)

55) Ring bell ring, sing bell sing, ding dong, ding, dong, ding ding, dong. (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

56) Ring your bells, ring your bells, you can ring your bells today. Ring your bells, ring your bells, ring your bells today. Ring them round and round and round, listen to the pretty sound. Ring your bells, ring your bells, ring your bells today!

57) Jack-in-the-box he sits so still. Will you come out? Yes, I will! (Idea suggested by Dorothy McKenzie and Estelle Brown)

58) We?ll shake our rattles together [x3) Because it?s fun to do!

59) Shake your rattles, shake your rattles like the leaves. That are growing, that are growing on the trees. Shake them high and shake them low. Round about and to and fro. Shake your rattles, shake your rattles like the leaves! (Barbara Cass-Beggs)

60) Shake your rattle, baby - shake it if you can. Shake it like a milkshake and drop it in the can!

61) The little train ran up the track. It went toot, toot and then it came back.

62) We'll tap our sticks together (x3) Because it's fun to do. // Tap, tap, tap (x4) Tap, tap. tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.

63) Hickory dickory dock - the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one - the mouse ran down Hickory dickory dock - tick tock! 64) The great big clock (grandfather's clock) says Tick - tock (slowly) The kitchen clock says tick- tock (medium tempo) The tiny watch says tick ? tock (quickly)

65) Rock-a-bye baby on the treetop. When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, and down will come baby cradle and all. (English/American)

66) Ho ho watanay (x3) Ki-yo ke-na (x2)
Sleep sleep little one (x3) Now go to sleep (x2)
(Iroquois Indian - English words by Alan Mills)

67) Hush-a-bye don't you cry, go to sleepy little baby. When you awake you shall have all the pretty little horses. Blacks and bays dapples and grays. Coach and six little horses. Hush-a-bye don't you cry, go to sleepy little baby (American)

68) Bye baby Bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting. To get a little rabbit skin to wrap a baby Bunting in. (English)

69) Sleep baby sleep (Schlaf Kindlein schlaf). Thy father tends his sheep. Thy mother shake s the dreamland tree. Down falls a little dream for thee. Sleep baby sleep. (Schlaf Kindlein schlaf: German - music by Johannes Brahms)

70) I?m so happy, I?m so happy, I?m so happy that everybody?s here!

Additional Songs and Rhymes
(not included on this CD)

71) Knock at the door (tap on the forehead)
Pull the bell (pull a lock of hair)
Lift up the latch (lightly pinch the nose)
Walk in (put your finger on the mouth)
Go way down the cellar and eat apples (tickle tummy)

72) Kumbaya, my L-rd, Kumbaya (x3) Oh L-rd, Kumbaya. (someone's sleeping *someone's praying etc.) (African)

73) Eye winker, Tom tinker
(touch each of baby's eyes)
Nose smeller, Mouth eater
(touch nose, then mouth)
Chin chopper, Guzzle whopper
(touch chin, tickle tummy)

74) I'll touch my chin, my cheek, my chair. I'll touch my head, my heels, my hair. I'll touch my knees, my neck, my nose. Then I'll dip down and touch my toes

75) Wee wiggie, Poke piggie, Tom whistle, John gristle, and old BIG GOBBLE, gobble gobble!

76) Head, shoulders, knees and toes - knees and toes (x2) Eyes and ears and mouth and nose. Head, shoulders, knees and toes - knees and toes.

77) Round about, round about went the wee mouse. Up a bit, up a bit to his wee house.

78) Five little kittens all black and white. Sleeping very soundly all through the night (the hands make a fist for this verse)
Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. It's time to get up now. (Raise a different finger for each "meow")

79) Where is Thumbkin? Where is Thumbkin? Here I am. Here I am. How are you today sir? Very well I thank you. Run away. Run away. (Pointer, Middle man, Ring man, Baby or Pinky)

80) Tommy Thumb, Tommy Thumb, where are you? Here I am. Here I am. How do you do? (Peter Pointer, Toby Tall, Ruby Ring, Baby Small, Fingers all - wave baby's hands)

81) Two little dickybirds sat upon a wall. One named Peter, the other named Paul. Fly away Peter, fly away Paul. Come back Peter, come back Paul!

82) Two little dickybirds sitting on a hill. One named Jack, the other named Jill. Fly away Jack, fly away Jill. Come back Jack, come back Jill

83) Here is baby's tousled head (closed fist)
She nods and nods (bend fist back and forth)
Let's put her to bed (bend other arm, tuck fist into bent elbow)

84) The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round all through the town. (wipers-swish, bell-ding, horn-beep, people-up & down, money-clink, mommies-shhh, mommies-say I love you, driver-says move on back etc.)

85) Throw up high, bounce down low. Catch your ball in the middle so.