Linstead Market

October 30, 2019, 11:00 pm

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This song is in the Jamaican mento genre (not Calypso) (source).

This is about a woman going to market trying to sell her fruit, but having no success. I omitted the verses about the woman’s children going hungry.

Lyrics

Carry me ackee* go a Linstead Market,
Not a quattie** would sell.
Carry me ackee go a Linstead Market,
Not a quattie would sell.

Refrain
Oh no! Not a mite, not a bite,
What a Saturday night!
Oh no! Not a mite, not a bite,
What a Saturday night!

Make me call it louder,
“Ackee, ackee!”
Red and pretty dam tan.
Lady, come buy your Sunday morning breakfast,
Rice and ackee nyam gran’. Refrain

*ackee – fruit – link (source)

**quattie – worth one and a half penny during colonial rule (source)

dem tan = they are

nyam gran’ = taste good (source)

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Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum

December 29, 2019, 11:00 pm

≫ Next: Leak Kanseng

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Lyrics

Oh we can play on the big bass drum,
And this is the music to it
Boom boom boom goes the big bass drum,
And that is how we do it.

[Classroom instruments]
Ting ting ting goes the triangle
Chink chink chink goes the tambourine
Ticka, ticka, tock go the castanets
Jingle jingle jingle go the jingle bells

Fiddle diddle dee goes the violin
Zoom zoom zoom goes the double bass
Doo doo doo goes the clarinet
Tootle tootle toot goes the silver flute
Bah bah bah goes the loud trumpet
Oom pa pa goes the big tuba
Wa wa wa goes the long trombone
Ching ching ching goes the xylophone
Dong dong dong goes the piano
Strum strum strum goes the new guitar
Twang twang twang goes the old banjo

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Leak Kanseng

December 31, 2019, 11:00 pm

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This song and game is used in New Year celebrations.

Lyrics – Transliteration

Leak Kanseng!
Chhma khaaim keng!
Oh long oh long

Cambodian / Khmer

លាក់កន្សែង
ឆ្មាខាំកែង
អូសលោង! អូសលោង!

Translation

Hide the towel,
Cats bite,
Drag! Drag! (source)

Game

Formation: Students sit in a circle on the floor.

One person (Person “A”) holds a “Kanseng” (towel) in his hands and walks around the outside of the circle and sings. “A” secretly puts the “Kanseng” behind one of the students on the floor (Person “B”). “B” jumps up, grabbing the towel, along with the person to his/her right (Person “C”). Both “B” and “C” run around the circle, with “B” chasing “C” until “C” returns to his/her spot and sits down again. “B” becomes the new “A” and puts the towel behind another student.

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Caney mi macaro

February 27, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney caney (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)
Caney caney (repeat)
Caney mi macaro (repeat)

Translation

These words are supposedly nonsense. (source)

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Songs with Ties

June 4, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Dancer in the Moonlight

June 24, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

Dancer* in the moonlight
Dancer in the dew,
Dancer never come back
Until the clock strikes two.

Walk in dancer walk in,
Walk right in I say
Walk into my parlor
To hear my banjo play

I don’t hate nobody
And nobody hates me
All I want is _____________
To come and dance with me

Tra la la la la la
Tra la la la la
Tra la la la la la
Tra la la la la la

*Original title: Gypsy in the Moonlight

Circle Game

Formation – Students stand in a circle.

Verse 1 – Students hold hands and circle right. One student (“It”) walks around the outside of the circle.

Verse 2 – “It” comes into the circle and dances or does another motion.

Verse 3 – “It” chooses a student from the circle to come into the middle. “It” either sings the whole verse or just the name of the student he/she chooses.

Verse 4 – “It” and the second student dance in the middle of the circle.

At the end, “It” joins the circle, and the second student becomes “It.”

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Miss Maggie

June 29, 2020, 11:00 pm

≫ Next: Trot Old Joe

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Lyrics

Around and round Miss Maggie on a long summer day. (repeat)

Break the ring and take a swing on a long summer day. (repeat)

Miss Maggie knows how to swing ’em on a long summer day. (repeat)

Dance

Formation: Students stand in a circle with one person (“It”) in the center. Sing that person’s name instead of “Miss Maggie.”

Verse 1 – Students circle to the right around “It.”

Verse 2 – “It” grabs someone from the circle, (“Person 2”) brings him/her to the middle and does a right hand swing.

Verse 3 – “It” goes back to the person who was standing to the right of “Person 2” and does a left hand swing. “It” goes back to Person 2 and does a right arm swing, then goes to the next person in the circle and does a left arm swing. This continues around the whole circle. When everyone has been swung, “It” joins the circle, and “Person 2” becomes the new “It.”

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Trot Old Joe

July 26, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

Trot Old Joe, trot Old Joe,
You ride better’n any horse I know.
Trot Old Joe, trot Old Joe,
You’re the best horse in the country-o.
Whoa Joe!

Walk Old Joe…

Gallop Old Joe…

Trot slow Joe…

Trot fast Joe…

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Then Oh Then

August 27, 2020, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

When I was a young child, young child,
I remember then oh then.
It was this way, that-a-way,
It was this way, that-a-way,
This-a-way, that-a-way then.

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Here Sits a Monkey

February 11, 2016, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

Oh here sits a monkey in the chair chair chair
He lost all the true friends she had last year
So rise upon your feet and greet the first you meet,
the happiest one I know.

2. Here cries a bear behind a chair chair chair…the fuzziest one I know.
3. Here lies a bug under a rug rug rug…the littlest one I know.
4. Here comes a pup beside the pup pup pup…the cutest one I know.

Add different motions for “sits.”

Game

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Se levanta la niña

February 16, 2016, 11:00 pm

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Lyrics

1. Se levanta la niña a la una,
A la una de la madrugada
Se levanta a la una,
La medio, la zero, la nada
¡Ay qué linda la madrugada!

2. Se levanta la niña a las dos,
A las dos de la madrugada;
Se levanta a las dos, a la una,
La medio, la zero, la nada;
Ay, que linda la madrugada.

3. Se levanta la nina a las tres…

4. …a las cuatro…

Translation

1. The baby girl wakes up at one,
At one in the early morning
She gets up at one,
The middle, the zero, the nothing,
Oh how beautiful, the early morning!

2. The baby girl wakes up at two,
At two in the early morning
She gets up at two, at one,
The middle, the zero, the nothing,
Oh how beautiful, the early morning!

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Mulberry Bush

February 16, 2016, 11:51 pm

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Lyrics

Here we go ’round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush,
Here we go ’round the mulberry bush so early in the morning.

This is the way we wash our face, wash our face, wash our face.

This is the way we comb our hair…

This is the way we brush our teeth…

This is the way we put on our clothes…

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Upward Trail

February 28, 2016, 11:04 pm

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Lyrics

We’re on the upward trail, We’re on the upward trail,
Singing singing, everybody singing as we go.
We’re on the upward trail, We’re on the upward trail,
Singing singing, everybody singing homeward bound.

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SMILE

March 1, 2016, 11:26 pm

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Lyrics

1. It isn’t any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E (repeat)
So smile when you’re in trouble; it will vanish like a bubble
If you’ll only take the trouble just to S-M-I-I-L-E.

2. It isn’t any trouble just to L-A-U-G-H…

3. It isn’t any trouble just to G-R-I-N grin…

4. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!…

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Santy Maloney

March 15, 2016, 12:46 am

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Lyrics

1. Can you dance Santy Mahoney (repeat twice)
And turn yourself about?

2. Put both your hands on your shoulders…

3. Bend yourself this way and that way…

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Old Woman and the Pig

March 18, 2016, 12:00 am

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Lyrics

1. There was an old woman and she had a little pig. Oink, oink, oink.
There was an old woman and she had a little pig;
It didn’t cost much ’cause it wasn’t very big. Oink, oink, oink.

2. This little old woman kept the pig in the barn. Oink, oink, oink.
This little old woman kep the pig in the barn,
The prettiest thing she had on the farm. Oink, oink, oink.