Do Your Ears Hang Low? | Lyrics, Piano & Guitar Sheet Music, Video

“Do Your Ears Hang Low?” is a kids song that is popular in elementary schools, kids camps, and birthday parties. The melody is based on American folk song, Turkey in the Straw, but can also be sung to Sailor’s Hornpipe. Several ideas exist concerning the origin of the lyrics, but no theory can be confirmed. It is possible that is it a wartime song that found it’s way into popular culture as a children’s song.

Lyrics for ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’

Here is one of several variations on the lyrics for this song.

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie ’em in a knot?
Can you tie ’em in a bow?
Can you throw ’em o’er your shoulder
Like a continental soldier?
Do your ears hang low?

Do your ears stand high?
Do they reach up to the sky?
Do they droop when they are wet?
Do they stiffen when they’re dry?
Can you wave them at your neighbor
With an element of flavor?
Do your ears stand high?

Do your ears flip-flop?
Can you use them as a mop?
Are they stringy at the bottom?
Are they curly at the top?
Can you use them for a swatter?
Can you use them for a blotter?
Do your ears flip-flop?

Do your ears stick out?
Can you waggle them about?
Can you flap them up and down
As you fly around the town?
Can you shut them up for sure
When you hear an awful bore?
Do your ears stick out?

Do your ears give snacks?
Are they all filled up with wax?
Do you eat it in the morning
Do you eat it in the bath?
Do you eat it with a scone
Or do you eat it on its own?
Do your ears give snacks?

Print Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music

Here’s a free arrangement of ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’ for beginner piano solo. There’s an mp3 on the site so students can listen to the song as they practice.

Do Your Ears Hang Low? | Free Beginner Piano

Print Free Beginner Guitar Sheet Music (TABS)

Here’s a free arrangement of ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’ for beginner guitar solo. Students can learn to read traditional music notation or TABS. There’s also an mp3 on the site so students can listen to the song as they practice.

Do Your Ears Hang Low? | Free Beginner Guitar

Guitar Chords for ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’

Ultimate-Guitar.com has guitar chords for Do Your Ears Hang Low? This site features many tools to make learning and playing the guitar fun, including an auto-scroll tool and a transpose tool in case the music isn’t in the right key.

Do Your Ears Hang Low? Guitar Chords

Video for ‘Do Your Ears Hang Low?’

Check out this video from Muffin Songs. Enjoy the video or sing along.

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Senor Don Gato | Lyrics, Video and Piano Sheet Music

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Senor Don Gato | Lyrics, Video and Piano Sheet Music

Here’s a wacky kids song from Spain. Senor Don Gato is about a cat who finds true love, but gets so excited that he falls off the roof on which he was sitting. Fortunately, his funeral passed by the market square, and the scent of fish was so strong that it brought Senor Don Gato back to life.

Lyrics for Senor Don Gato

Oh Senor Don Gato was a cat.
On a high red roof Don Gato sat.
He went there to read a letter,
Meow, meow, meow,
Where the reading light was better,
Meow, meow, meow,
‘Twas a love note for Don Gato.

I adore you wrote the lady cat,
Who was fluffy, white and nice and fat.
There was not a sweeter kitty,
Meow, meow, meow,
In the country or the city,
Meow, meow, meow,
And she said she’d wed Don Gato.

Oh, Don Gato jumped so happily,
He fell off the roof and broke his knee.
Broke his ribs and all his whiskers,
Meow, meow, meow,
And his little solar plexus,
Meow, meow, meow,
Ay Caramba cried Don Gato.

Then the doctors all came on the run,
Just to see if something could be done.
And they held a consultation,
Meow, meow, meow,
About how to save their patient,
Meow, meow, meow,
How to save Senor Don Gato.

But in spite of everything they tried,
Poor Senor Don Gato up and died.
And it wasn’t very merry,
Meow, meow, meow,
Going to the cemetery,
Meow, meow, meow,
For the ending of Don Gato.

When the funeral passed the market square,
Such a smell of fish was in the air.
Though his burial was slated,
Meow, meow, meow,
He became reanimated,
Meow, meow, meow,
He came back to life, Don Gato.

Piano Sheet Music for ‘Senor Don Gato’

This piano arrangement is perfect for first year beginners. Reading the book with them, and then sharing this piece will make practicing so much fun!

Senor Don Gato | Beginner Piano Sheet Music

Video for ‘Senor Don Gato’

Check out this Senor Don Gato video from Fred Kluth Designs, LLC.

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Cindy (Get Along Home) Lyrics, Sheet Music and Video

“Cindy” or “Cindy, Cindy” or “Get Along Home” is a popular American folksong. According to John Lomax, an American teacher and pioneering musicologist, the song originated in North Carolina, USA. “Cindy”, the early and middle 20th century was included in elementary school curriculum songbooks as an example of American folk music. One of the earliest known versions of “Cindy” can be found in found in Anne  Culbertson’s Negro Folktales (1904).

The first verse and refrain from that collection are:

I’se gwine down ter Richmond
I’ll tell you w’a hit’s for:
I’se gwine down ter Richmond
Fer ter try an’ end dis war
An’-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
Good-by, Cindy Ann
An’-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
I’se gwine ter Rappahan.

Print Easy Piano Sheet Music

Here’s an easy piano sheet music arrangement for Cindy in the key of F Major. It’s perfect for piano students with 3-5 years of experience.

Cindy (Get Along Home) | Easy Piano Sheet Music

Print Guitar Sheet Music (TAB)

Here’s a easy to play arrangement of Cindy for Guitar solo. The sheet music includes notation and tabs.

Cindy (Get Along Home) | Easy Guitar Sheet Music – TAB

Lyrics for ‘Cindy’

I wish I were an apple
A-hanging on the tree
And every time that Cindy passed
She’d take a bite o’ me

Chorus:
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
Get along home, Cindy Cindy
I’ll marry you some day.

You ought to see my Cindy
She lives away down south
She’s so sweet the honeybees
Swarm around her mouth.
(Chorus)

She told me that she loved me
She called me Sugarplum
She drew her arms around me
I thought my time had come
(Chorus)

She loves me in the summertime
She loves me in the fall
If she don’t love me all the time
I want no love at all.
(Chorus)

The first time that I saw her
She was standin’ in the door,
Her shoes and stockings in her hand,
Her feet all over the floor.
(Chorus)

My Cindy is a pretty girl
My Cindy is a peach;
She throws her arms around my neck
And hangs on like a leech.
(Chorus)

Video for ‘Cindy’ (Get Along Home) by Ricky Nelson

Check out this video of Get Along Home (Cindy) as recorded by Ricky Nelson for Warner Bros. Pictures motion picture, “Rio Bravo” (1959).

 

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God Is So Good | Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music, Lyrics and Video

God Is So Good is classic praise and worship song for kids. This post will guide you to to beginner piano sheet music, lyrics, guitar chords and a sign-along video for this gospel favorite.

Print Beginner Piano Sheet Music

Looking for a great praise and worship tune song for beginner piano? This arrangement of God Is So Good is in C position, with very few notes in the left hand. Even very early beginners will be able to learn this piece easily, and love playing it for family and friends.

God Is So Good | Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music

Free Recorder Sheet Music

God Is So Good | Free Easy Recorder Sheet Music

Lyrics for ‘God Is So Good’

God is so good,
God is so good,
God is so good,
He’s so good to me.

He cares for me,
He cares for me,
He cares for me,
He’s so good to me.

God answers prayer,
God answers prayer,
God answers prayer,
He’s so good to me.

I love Him so,
I love Him so,
I love Him so,
He’s so good to me.

I praise His Name,
I praise His Name,
I praise His Name,
He’s so good to me.

I’ll do His will,
I’ll do His will,
I’ll do His will,
He’s so good to me.

He saves my soul,
He saves my soul,
He saves my soul,
He’s so good to me.

Now I am free,
Now I am free,
Now I am free,
He’s so good to me.

Beginner Guitar Sheet Music

This beginner guitar sheet music arrangement includes simple harmonies. It provides music notation for kids that would like to start to read music, and TABS.

God Is So Good for Beginner/Level 1 Guitar Sheet Music

Guitar Chords

The following link provides you with easy to play chords for God Is So Good, as well as many of the popular verses for this Bible song.

God Is So Good Guitar Chords

 

Sing-a-Long Video for ‘God Is So Good’

Check out this sing-a-long video from the All-Star Kids Club new Preschool Kids worship mini album.

 

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Short’nin’ Bread | Lyrics, Easy Piano Sheet Music and Video

Short’nin’ Bread is a song written by James Whitcomb Riley in 1900.  Shortening bread is a fried batter bread that is made from corn meal, flour, eggs, hot water, eggs, baking powder, milk and shortening.

The following resources are a wonderful collection with which to introduce your kids to turn of the 20th century American songs.

Print Piano Sheet Music

This arrangement of mid-west American song, Short’nin’ Bread, is perfect for the first or second year piano student.

Short’nin’ Bread | Easy Piano Sheet Music

 

Lyrics for ‘Short’nin’ Bread’

Put on the skillet,
Slip on the lid,
Mama’s gonna make
A little short’nin’ bread.
That ain’t all
She’s gonna do,
Mama’s gonna make
A little coffee, too.

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

Three little children,
Lyin’ in bed
Two were sick
And the other ‘most dead
Sent for the doctor
And the doctor said,
“Give those children some
Short’nin’ bread.”

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

When those children,
Sick in bed,
Heard that talk
About short’nin’ bread,
Popped up well
To dance and sing,
Skipped around and cut
The pigeon wing.

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

Slip to the kitchen,
Slip up the led,
Filled my pockets full of
Short’nin’ bread;
Stole the skillet,
Stole the led,
Stole the gal makin’
Short’nin’ bread.

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

Caught me with the skillet,
Caught me with the led,
Caught me with the gal makin’
Short’nin’ bread;
Paid six dollars for the skillet,
Six dollars for the led,
Spent six months in jail eatin’
Short’nin’ bread.

Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mama’s little baby loves
Short’nin’ bread.

Video for ‘Short’nin’ Bread’

Watch this classic sing-along for Short’nin’ Bread on YouTube.com.

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Yellow Bird | Piano Sheet Music, Lyrics & Guitar Chords

Yellow Bird began as a Choucoune –  a 19th century Haitian song . The original song was composed by Michel Mauléart Monton with the lyrics written by Oswald Durand from a poem.  The popular calypso style arrangement that we know today was created for the Norman Luboff Choir. The lyrics for this new setting were written by Academy Award winning song writers, Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Norman Luboff’s ‘Yellow Bird’ was recorded on Calypso Holiday in 1957.

Print Easy Piano Sheet Music

Yellow Bird for Easy/Level 4 Piano Solo

Lyrics for Yellow Bird

Yellow bird,
Up high in banana tree,
Yellow bird,
You sit all alone like me

Did your lady frien’,
Leave de nest again?
Dat is very sad,
Make me feel so bad,
You can fly away,
In the sky away,
You’re more lucky dan me.

More lyrics on Kididdles.com

 

Guitar Chords for Yellow Bird

You can get the guitar chords for Yellow Bird as recorded by the Kingston Trio on Ultimate-Guitar.com. The chords are in D Major, but you can transpose them to any key that works best for your, and they’re an auto-scroll feature so you can easily read the lyric and guitar chords from your phone.

Yellow Bird Guitar Chords

Video for Yellow Bird

Check out this video for Yellow Bird as recorded by the Kingston Trio on YouTube.com.

 

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Au Clair de la Lune | Free Piano Sheet Music, Lyrics and Chords

Au clair de la lune (By the Light of the Moon) is a French folk song from the eighteenth century. The composer is unknown. The simple melody is well written and traditionally taught to beginning instrumental music students.

 

Print Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music

This arrangement of Au clair de la lune is ideal for the beginning piano student with no prior experience. There’s a listen button on the site so you’ll have an idea what it should sound like when you practice.

Au Clair de la Lune | Free Beginner Piano Sheet Music

 

French Lyrics for ‘Au Clair de la Lune’

Au clair de la lune,
Mon ami Pierrot,
Prête-moi ta plume
Pour écrire un mot.
Ma chandelle est morte,
Je n’ai plus de feu.
Ouvre-moi ta porte
Pour l’amour de Dieu.

English Lyrics for ‘Au Clair de la Lune’

By the light of the moon,
My friend Pierrot,
Lend me your quill
To write a word.
My candle is dead,
I have no light left.
Open your door for me
For the love of God.

 

Guitar Chords for ‘Au Clair de la Lune’

Check out the guitar chords for Au clair de la lune on Ultimate-Guitar.com. The chords are in D Major, but you can transpose them to any key that works best for your, and they’re an auto-scroll feature so you can easily read the lyric and guitar chords from your phone.

Au Clair de la lune Guitar Chords on Ultimate-Guitar.com

 

Video for ‘Au Clair de la Lune’

Watch sing-along video forAu clair de la lune in French on YouTube.com.

 

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