The Small Redheads' Current Favorite Song

[browngirl]

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.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Are they "Trout Fishing in America"?

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

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!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know that one. Is it another peppy song they'd like?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, little children. If they like it once they like it a thousnd times.

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

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Nono, if they like it once they DEMAND it a thousand times !!!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Have you watched the movie?

[ilyena_sylph]

...that's too cute!

[kshandra]

Not a song, a band. (And to answer lblanchard's question, no.)

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

My daughter loves this too - we have this version and a longer version in a book :)

[gingicat]

We have the little cartoon saved on our DVR - one of our local PBS stations showed it recently.

[gingicat]

I thought this *was* the longer version - what's the rest?

[gingicat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpW5oWxRto :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

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.

[poltr1]

That's one of m's favorites as well.

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

Oh shoot - rereading (shoot me for skimming), I realized you've got the whole version up there. *head rubs*