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Today’s show is all about ants and fleas and flies and other creepy crawlies all around us! Valerie and I are recording this on Wednesday, April 15, and the video will be available in my stories for 24 hours at “Singalongpodcast” on Instagram.
Greeting
Hi Friends! Welcome back to the Sing Along with Mandy Podcast. I’m Mandy, and I’m so glad you’re here.
I love to sing songs and play fun – and sometimes silly – games and I especially love to sing and play with you.
If you or your adult would like to see the lyrics to the songs in this episode, I’ll leave a link in the show notes. If you don’t know a song yet, don’t worry! Just listen and sing along when you can. Are you ready? Let’s sing!
Ants go Marching
The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching one by one
The little one stops to suck his thumb
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching two by two
The little one stops to tie his shoe
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching three by three, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching three by three
The little one stops to climb a tree
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching four by four, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching four by four
The little one stops to shut the door
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom!
The ants go marching five by five, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching five by five, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching five by five
The little one stops to take a dive
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching six by six, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching six by six
The little one stops to pick up sticks
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching seven by seven, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching seven by seven, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching seven by seven
The little one stops to pray to heaven
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom!
The ants go marching eight by eight, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching eight by eight, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching eight by eight
The little one stops to shut the gate
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching nine by nine, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching nine by nine, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching nine by nine
The little one stops to get out the line
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom!
The ants go marching ten by ten, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching ten by ten, hurrah, hurrah
The ants go marching ten by ten
The little one stops to do it again
And they all go marching down to the ground
To get out of the rain, boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Ladybird, Ladybird
Ladybird*, ladybird,
Fly away home,
Your house is on fire,
And your children all gone,
All except one,
And that’s little Ann,
For she crept under,
The frying pan.
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Itsy Bitsy Spider and in Spanish!
The itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain
And the itsy-bitsy spider
Climbed up the spout again
Friends, I’m so excited – earlier I called my friend Ms. Kim and asked her for an easy Spanish version of the Itsy Bitsy Spider. This is her version.
La araña pequeñita
La araña pequeñita
subió, subió, subió
vino la lluvia
y se la llevó.
Salió el sol
y todo lo secó
y la araña pequeñita
subió, subió, subió.
A flea and a fly
A flea and a fly
Flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, “Let us fly!”
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
So they flew through
A flaw in the flue.
There was an old woman
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider;
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider;
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that! She swallowed a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider;
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider;
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow;
I don’t know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider;
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her!
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse;
…She’s dead, of course!
Shoo fly
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star,
I feel, I feel, I feel like a morning star.
Oh, shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
Nobody likes me
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones
Eensie weensy squeensy ones
See how they wiggle and squirm!
[Verse 1]
Down goes the first one, down goes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one
Oh how they wiggle and squirm!
Nobody likes me, everybody hates me
I think I’ll go eat worms!
Big fat juicy ones
Eensie weensy squeensy ones
See how they wiggle and squirm!
Boom Boom
A horse and a flea and three blind mice
Sat on a curbstone covered in ice
The horse he slipped and fell on the flea
“Whoops,” said the flea, “There’s a horse on me!”
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Giggly and foolish the whole day through
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Way down South where bananas grow
A flea stepped on an elephant’s toe
The elephant cried, with tears in his eyes
“Why don’t you pick on someone your size?”
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Giddy and foolish the whole day through
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Way up North where there’s ice and snow
There lived a penguin and his name was Joe
He got so tired of black and white
He wore pink slacks to the dance last night!
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
Giggly and foolish the whole day through
Boom, boom, ain’t it great to be crazy?
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Closing
I hope you’ve enjoyed singing along with me today during the Sing Along with Mandy Podcast. I have loved playing and singing with you!
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