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browngirl ([personal profile] browngirl) wrote2009-01-17 11:31 am

The Small Redheads' Current Favorite Song


Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

A told B, and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree."

"Wheel!" said D to E F G, "I'll beat you to the top of the coconut tree."

Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Here comes H up the coconut tree,

and I and J and tag-along K, all on their way up the coconut tree.

Chicka chicka boom boom! Will there be enough room? Look who's coming! L M N O P!

And Q R S! And T U V! Still more - W! And X Y Z!

The whole alphabet up the - Oh, no! Chicka chicka... BOOM! BOOM!

Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee. Everybody running to the coconut tree.

Mamas and papas and uncles and aunts hug their little dears, then dust their pants.

"Help us up," cried A B C.

Next from the pileup skinned-knee D and stubbed-toe E and patched-up F. Then comes G all out of breath.

H is tangled up with I. J and K are about to cry. L is knotted like a tie.

M is looped. N is stooped. O is twisted alley-oop. Skit skat skoodle doot. Flip flop flee.

Look who's coming! It's black-eyed P, Q R S, and loose-tooth T. Then U V W wiggle-jiggle free.

Last to come X Y Z. And the sun goes down on the coconut tree...

But - chicka chicka boom boom! Look, there's a full moon.

A is out of bed, and this is what he said, "Dare double dare, you can't catch me. I'll beat you up the top of the coconut tree."

Chicka chicka BOOM! BOOM!

©1989 by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault.

[identity profile] lblanchard.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Are they "Trout Fishing in America"?

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't know that one. Is it another peppy song they'd like?
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[personal profile] kshandra 2009-01-17 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a song, a band. (And to answer [livejournal.com profile] lblanchard's question, no.)
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[identity profile] claudia603.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
hee! I had to sing that over and over again when I was working with four-year-olds in Florida. We had a lesson plan with that!

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, little children. If they like it once they like it a thousnd times.

*sings "A told B and B told C..."

[identity profile] awfief.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Nono, if they like it once they DEMAND it a thousand times !!!

[identity profile] rabidsamfan.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you watched the movie?
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[personal profile] gingicat 2009-01-18 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
We have the little cartoon saved on our DVR - one of our local PBS stations showed it recently.

[identity profile] rabidsamfan.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Scholastic has put out DVDs of a bunch of the Weston Woods picturebook films, and the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom DVD has some more films that delight toddlers. (Like Trashy Town.) Borders has 'em. In fact I saw a box set of a whole bunch at the Borders on Boylston street just before Christmas if you've just come into a pot of money.
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[personal profile] ilyena_sylph 2009-01-17 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...that's too cute!

[identity profile] tendyl.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
My daughter loves this too - we have this version and a longer version in a book :)
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[personal profile] gingicat 2009-01-18 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought this *was* the longer version - what's the rest?

[identity profile] tendyl.livejournal.com 2009-01-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh shoot - rereading (shoot me for skimming), I realized you've got the whole version up there. *head rubs*
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[personal profile] poltr1 2009-01-18 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That's one of m's favorites as well.