Music & movement classes for babies, toddlers and preschool children in New Malden, south west London & north Surrey

My big red bumpy tractor (x3)
I'm driving in my tractor

I turn to the left & I turn to the right (x3)
When I'm driving in my tractor

I wave to the animals on the farm (x3)
When I'm driving in my tractor

The engine on the front goes vroom vroom vroom (x3)
When I'm driving in my tractor

(words & music: V. Hoban)

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The wiggly worm, the wiggly worm
He wiggles & he jiggles & he likes to squirm (x2)
He moves through the ground to help the flowers grow
And when it rains he shouts: 'Hello!'
The wiggly worm, the wiggly worm
He wiggles & he jiggles & he likes to squirm.

(words & music: V. Hoban)
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As I was walking down the street
Down the street, down the street
A friend of mine i chanced to meet
Hello, hello, hello!
And...riggity jig and a-way we go
A-way we go, a-way we go
riggity jig and a-way we go
Hey ho, hey ho, hey ho!

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Baking buns (or gingerbread) as sweet as a dream
dip them in a bowl of cream
Come and help us knead the dough
Add the butter ready to go
Roll them out with a rolling pin
Sprinkle with sugar just a layer so thin
And...push them in the oven
And... pull them out again!

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Hot cross buns, hot cross buns
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns
if you have no daughters, give them to your sons
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns

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Harry Hare is in a hurry, full of care and full of worry
Harry Hare is late for tea, what a naughty hare is he

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Little Peter Rabbit has a fly upon his nose (x2)
So he swished it and he swashed it and the fly flew away
Floppy ears and curly whiskers (x3)
So he swished it and he swashed it and the fly flew away

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CHORUS: We're on our way, we're on our way
On our way to Grandpa's farm (x2)

Down on grandpa's farm there is a big brown horse (x2)
The horse, it makes a sounds like this "neigh!" (x2)

Down on grandpa's farm there is a.. back and & white cow /
big pink pig / little yellow duck, etc

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A hedgehog is very prickly (x3), it could be anything else
A worm is very wriggly...
A crocodile's very snappy...
A chicken is very flappy..
a bunny is very hoppy...etc

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The dinosaurs going stomping by, hoorah, hoorah (x2)
The dinosaurs go stomping by, some very low & some very high
And they all go stomping, for to get out of the cold.

The dinosaurs going flying by, hoorah, hoorah (x2)
The dinosaurs go flying by, and spread their wings across the sky
And they all go flying, for to get out of the cold.

The dinosaurs going creeping by, hoorah, hoorah (x2)
The dinosaurs go creeping by..but now they're all gone, I wonder why?
And they all go creeping, for to get out of the cold.

The dinosaurs going roaring by, hoorah, hoorah (x2)
The dinosaurs go roaring by, the T-Rex gives a noisy cry..ROAR!!
And they all go roaring, for to get out of the cold.

(words: V. Hoban, music: trad.)
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Squirrel climbing up the tree
Climbing up to find his tea
And then he jumps down!

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Three little froggies sitting on a well
One jumped up and down he fell
Froggies jump high, froggies jump low
Two little froggies jumping to and fro...
(etc)

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Kangaroos like to hop (hop hop)
And frogs like to leap (wheeee!)
Horses like to trot (trit trot trit trot)
But I like to fall in a heap (bump!)

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Mm mm went the little green frog one day (x3)
And the frog went mm mm ah!
But we know frogs go:
Ladidadida (x3)
They don't go mm mm ah!

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Little green frog, little green frog
Why's your house so small?
'I live in the river, I live in the river
I have no house at all.'
Cr-roak, croak, croak, Cr-roak, croak croak
Cr-roak croak croak croak (x2)

Little yellow duck, little yellow duck
Why's your house so small?
'I live in the river, I live in the river
I have no house at all.'
Qu-ack, quack, quack, Qu-ack, quack, quack,
Qu-ack, quack, quack, quack (x2)

Little red fish, little red fish
Why's your house so small?
'I live in the river, I live in the river
I have no house at all.'
Sw-wish, swish, swish, sw-wish, swish, swish
Sw-wish, swish, swish, swish (x2)

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Chop chop choppety chop
Chop at the bottom & chop at the top
What there is left we will put in the pot
Chop chop choppety chop

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I'm a little alien green and slim
Here's my tummy, here's my chin
stamping lots of craters on the moon
Then in my spaceship and off I zoom...ZOOM!

(words: V Hoban, music: trad.)

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I like walking in the leaves
In the woods beneath the trees
Listen, listen what can you hear?
It's a squirrel* (*or whatever you hear/see!) oh so near.

(words: L. Bance, music: adapted from Haydn)

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Hello to my Nose
Hello to all my fingers
Hello to my toes
Hello to my ears
Hello to my cheeks
Hello to my mouth
Hello to my tummy
Hello to my bottom
Hello to my legs
Hello to my hands…

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Two teddies on a trampoline
Boing boing boing boing
Two teddies on a trampoline
Boing boing boing

(words & music: L. Bance)

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Walking in the Woods where the wild things grow,
I saw a squirrel/rabbit/bear/butterfly/leaf/tree/
Scurry/hopping/growling/flutter/floating/rustling
To and fro
It scurried/hopped/growled/fluttered/floated/rustled
To the left, it *** to the right
Then .....
(Scurried up a tree / hopped down a hole / growled at me / fluttered round a flower / floating to the ground /rustled in the wind)
And out of sight

(words & music: V. Hoban)

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Squirrel sits up in his tree
Only one small nut has he
Let us go, you and me
With a sackful for his tea

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Teddy bear teddy bear turn around
Teddy bear teddy touch the ground
Teddy bear teddy bear reach up high
Teddy bear teddy bear wave goodbye

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Please open your umbrella (x3)
I think it's going to rain
The rain is nearly over (x3)
So close it up again

(L. Bance)

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On firework night at 5 o'clock
I took my money to the firework shop
I bought a rocket and it cost one pence
And I put my rocket by the fence
And my rocket went whoooooosh!

...And my whizzer went whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz
And my rocket went whoooooosh!

...And my banger went Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
And my whizzer went whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz
And my rocket went whoooooosh!

...And my fountain went swish, swish, swish, swish, swish
And my banger went Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
And my whizzer went whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz whizz
And my rocket went whoooooosh!

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We're all riding on a train (x2)
We're going far away for the day, then we all come back again

..The guard shuts the door on the train...BANG!

..We're going very fast on the train

..Bouncing up and down on the train

..Children clap their hands on the train

..the driver blows the whistle on the train, choo choo!

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Here we go looby loo,
Here we go looby light;
Here we go looby loo,
All on a Saturday night!

You put your right hand in,
You take your right hand out;
You give your right hand a shake, shake, shake,
And turn yourself about!

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We were flying teddy and I
Moon and stars were passing us by
We saw such a lovely rainbow, it's so pretty, teddy said
But I think we must be dreaming
‘Cause, you see, we're still in bed

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We’re all going for a ride on a pony
Jig jog jig jog, jiggy jog jig
Not too fast and not too slowly
Jig jog jig jog, jiggy jog jig
Chorus: We’re all going for a ride, all around the countryside
Jig jog jig jog, jig jog jig jog, jig jog jig jog, jiggy jog jig
Verse 2: grandma’s going to buy me a pony / not too fat and not too bony

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Oh, the good ship sails on the ally ally o..
On the last day of September

verse 2: The good ship sank to the bottom of the sea ...

verse 3: We dip our head in the deep blue sea...

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I'm a little daisy
Tall and slim
Here's my flower
Here's my stem
When the sun comes out
And the rain comes down
I grow grow grow out of the ground

(Words: V. Hoban)

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In middle ocean, sardines are swimming
Apuskiduski, Apuskidu..
..So full of joy now they're swimming free
Apuskiduski, Apuskidu

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When I was one, I banged my drum
The day I went to sea
I jumped aboard a pirate ship
And the captain said to me:
We're going this way, that way
Forwards and backwards
Over the Irish sea
A bottle of rum to warm my tum
And that's the life for me..aharr!!

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There was a little turtle: he lived in a box
He swam in a puddle; he climbed on the rocks

He snapped at a mosquito, he snapped at a flea
He snapped at a minnow, he snapped at me

He caught the mosquito, he caught the flea
He caught the minnow, but he didn't catch me!

(Words: Vachel Lindsay; Music: C. Hoban)

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I have a little turtle
His name is Tiny Tim
I put him in the bath tub
To see if he could swim
He drank up all the water (slurp!)
He ate up all the soap (yum yum)
And now he's sick in bed
With a bubble in his throat.
Bubble.. bubble.. bubble....POP!

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Oh we like to play on the big bass drum
And this is the music to it
Boom, boom, boom goes the big bass drum
And that's the way we do it

Oh we like to play on the maracas
And this is the music to it
Swish, swish, swish go the maracas
Boom, boom, boom goes the big bass drum
And that's the way we do it

Oh we like to play on the tambourine
And this is the music to it
Shake, shake, shake goes the tambourine

Swish, swish, swish go the maracas
Boom, boom, boom goes the big bass drum
And that's the way we do it

Oh we like to play on the jingle bells...
And this is the music to it
Ding-a-ling-a-ling go the jingle bells

Shake, shake, shake goes the tambourine
Swish, swish, swish go the maracas
Boom, boom, boom goes the big bass drum
And that's the way we do it

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Look at the terrible crocodile
Ayo ayo ayo
He's swimming down the River Nile
Ayo ayo ayo
See how his jaws are open wide
Ayo ayo ayo
A dear little fish is sleeping inside
Ayo ayo ayo!
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See the bubbles floating by
Climbing up into the sky
Pop one here, pop one there
Bubbles popping everywhere!

(music: Humperdinck; words: V. Hoban)

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Coconut, bananas, pineapple and cream
Whizz in the blender and they taste like a dream! **SLURP** yum!

(Words: V. Hoban)

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Bananas bananas clap clap clap
Bananas bananas flap flap flap
Bananas bananas bump bump bump
Bananas bananas jump jump jump

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Chorus:
Let's do the numbers rumba (x3)
Number rumba all day long, hey!

V1:
Number one, number one, number one is lots of fun
Number one, number one, number one all day long


V2:
Number two, number two, two big feet on a kangaroo
Number two, number two, number two all day long

V3:
Number three, number three, three bananas on banana tree
Number three, number three, number three all day long

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Alice the camel has one hump (x3)
So go Alice go (bmm, bmm, bmm)

Alice the camel has 2 humps...etc

Alice the camel has no humps (x3)
So Alice the camel's a horse of course!


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Mosquito one, mosquito two
Mosquito jump on a hot kariboo
Light the lamp, mosquito come
Pinch the bottom, mosquito gone

Mosquito one, mosquito two
Mosquito jump in the old man's shoe
Baby canna walk, baby canna talk
Baby canna eat with a knife and fork

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A Leopard has lots of spots
What a lot of spots he's got
A tiger has stripes like long thin pipes
But a leopard has lots of spots

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Butterfly butterfly flying so high
Down to the earth and up to the sky
Butterfly with your colours so bright
Where will your rest your wings tonight?

(words: L. Bance, music: V. Hoban)

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Crunch crunch crunch crunch
Here comes a caterpillar for his lunch
Walking around on his many feet
Then he stops for a ...green leaf to eat
(words: L. Bance)

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Spinning, spinning I am spinning
Trying to do my best
Spinning, spinning I am spinning
Now I'll take a rest
(words: L. Bance)

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We have spaceship and we're going to the moon (x3)
So we climb in, press the switch and Zoom!
We can walk around in moonboots, we’re walking on the moon
We can drive off in our buggy, we’re driving on the moon
We can jump around in craters, we’re jumping on the moon
We can flying around in circles, we're flying on the moon

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I’m walking like a robot, just look at me now
My arms are made of metal, just look at me now
My chest is full of buttons, just look at me now

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Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon,
Sally go round the chimneypots on the Saturday afternoon, HEY!

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Aeroplanes, aeroplanes all in a row
Aeroplanes, areoplanes ready to go
Hark, they're beginning to buzz and to hum
Engines all working so come along, come
Now we are flying high up in the sky
Faster & faster, oh ever so high

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I spy with my little eye, you can hear with your little ear
The big yellow bus goes 'beep beep beep'
And we'll all go travelling by, by ,by (x2)

The little blue car goes 'vroom vroom vroom'...
The ice cream van goes 'dingalingaling'...

(words & music: S. Kerr)

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Autumn leaves, Autumn leaves
Falling from the Autumn trees
Orange, yellow, red and brown
Gently floating to the ground
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Autumn leaves are falling, yellow, red and brown
Catch them as they tumble, floating to the ground

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You put your bat wings in, your bat wings out
In out in out and flap them all about
You do the Spooky Cokey and you turn around
And bat's what it's all about

Chorus: Wooooo! The Spooky Cokey (x3)
Ghosts and goblins, blurgh blurgh, blurgh

You put your pumpkin in.....and wiggle it about

You put your monster feet in...and stomp them all about

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Witch's cauldron
Here's the witch's hat
Witch's broom stick
Witch' cat
Fly over there, fly over here
Crash! Bam! Alazam!
Now we disappear

Witch's spider crawling up a log
Witch's spellbook
Witch's frog
Hop over there, hop over here
Crash! Bam! Alazam!
Now we disappear

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How many sleeps til Christmas, how many days to go?
How many hours and minutes? Tell me I need to know.
Presents under the Christmas tree, stockings under the fire
"Santa Claus is coming" sings the festive choir.
How many sleeps til Christmas, how many days to go?
How many hours and minutes? Tell me I need to know!

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I'm a little pine tree, can you see?
The other trees are bigger than me
Maybe one day I'll grow up to be
A great big merry Christmas tree!

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Reindeer, reindeer don't you stop
Just let your feet go clippety clop
with antlers tall and a nose so bright
Giddy up it's Christmas night!

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CHORUS: We're on our way, we're on our way,
On our way to Santa's sleigh (x2)

When we find the sleigh we will hear reindeer's hooves (x2)
The hooves - they make a sound like this 'clip clop clip clop clip clop {x2)


When we find the sleigh we will hear jingle bells (x2)
The bells - they make a sound like this 'dingalingaling' (x2)

When we find the sleigh we will see Santa Claus (x2)
His voice - it makes a sound like this: 'ho ho ho!' (x2)

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Little Robin Redbreast came to visit me
This is what he whispered: chirp chirp chirp chiree

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When Santa got stuck up the chimney he began to shout
You girls and boys won't get any toys if you don't get me out
My beard is black, there's soot in my sack, my nose is tickly too
When Santa got stuck up the chimney , atchoo atchoo atchoo!

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(to the tune of "Have you seen the Muffin Man")
Have you seen the gingerbread man, the gingerbread man, the gingerbread man?
Have you seen the gingerbread man who ran and ran away?

The cow / pig / horse /fox.. she chased the gingerbread man....who ran & ran away?
[Spoken} But the gingerbread man said: "RUN, RUN, as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man!"

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(to the tune of "Skip to my Lou")
Pop a little pancake into the pan, pop a little pancake into the pan, pop a little pancake into the pan,
that's for our dinner tonight!

Toss a little pancake into the air...

Sprinkle on some sugar with a shake, shake, shake...

Squeeze a little lemon with a squeeze, squeeze, squeeze...

Pop it in your tummy with a yum, yum, yum...

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