Spider's Web, Quick Record for Learning

"Spider's Web" is a favorite of all girl's camp goers.  This was recorded quick, the two separate parts, so that my friend Sue could review for girls camp coming up this week.

I will post with the parts combined when I get a few of my daughters together.

It's A Web, Like A Spider's Web (Spider's Web), (quick practice)

Young Love, Sung by Grandpa $'s Grandkids and Great Grandkids

This was most of the grandkids and great grandkids of Grandpa $, sung at his funeral service.  Please listen to the introduction too.  I will post the picture that goes with this when I figure out how to do that.

Great grandson's Mason and Trevor (guitar and ukelele), grandson Mark on drum, and Grandson Mike on guitar.

Young Love, sung by Grandkids and Great Grandkids of Grandpa $

YOUNG LOVE (Key of C)

Intro – C x 4 bars (16 counts)

1^st verse

                     C

She was sitting cross-legged on a hood of a Ford

Filing down her nails with an emery board

                       G

Talking to her friends about people they knew

And all of the things that young girls do

                                C

When she said, "You see that guy in the baseball cap?

I'd like to spend some time with a boy like that."

                     G

Betty said, "I've seen him at the hardware store.

I think his name is Billy, but I'm not sure."

                                        C

And as they talked a little while he passed by

She smiled at him he just said "Hi."

                                  G

He was thinking to himself as he walked away

Man, I'd like to find a girl like her someday

[Chorus]

           F                C                 G                       C

         Young love, strong love, true love, it's a new love

                                                 F                 C

They're gonna make it through the hard times, walk those lines

                         G                                     C         

                Yeah, these ties will bind,  young love

2^nd verse

   C

Well, she just couldn't stop herself from thinking 'bout him

And at a store downtown she saw him again

                                  G

She had both hands full, he held open the door

He said, "My name is Billy. I've seen you before.

                             C

Can I help you with these? Can I give you a ride?

Can I take you out on a Saturday night?"

                           G

She didn't have to say what she was feeling inside

He could see the answer shining in her eyes

[Repeat Chorus]

3^rd verse

     C

Well, from that day on you couldn't keep them apart

They were side by side, heart to heart

                      G

Mama cried as Billy slipped the ring on her hand

And when the baby was born she was crying again

                              C

Well, he worked real hard and put some money down

On a little old house at the edge of town

                            G

And that night as he held her he couldn't believe

That God had made a girl that he'd never ever leave

[Repeat Chorus]

(Halle solo)

       C

She was sitting cross-legged on the hood of a Ford

Filing down her nails with an emery board

End with same as intro, 4 bars of C, (16 counts)

Young Love, by the Judds

This is the song that you can use to practice the song, "Young Love", by the Judds.  This is what the grandkids and great grandkids of Grandpa $ will be singing for the funeral.
We will do this in the Key of C.  This is sung on this video in the key of B, which is a 1/2 step lower than what we will be singing in. 

If you want a solo (or a solo with someone else), call me and let me know.  Otherwise, all you will need to learn is the chorus, and will just sing each time it comes around.  

Sweet Violets at Assisted Living Home for Great Grandma Wilma

This is a song that as a child, I could never quite figure out why it didn't seem to flow as well as other songs - something seemed wrong with it.  About the time I became a teenager, I realized it was the lack of rhyme that was bothering me.  I also appreciated what the song was really portraying, and then I really liked the song.  It wasn't until I was even older that I realized what the last verse was telling me about, "All a girl wants from a man is his "dough".  Now I just smile as we sing it, and enjoy it.

We are missing Rachelle :(.  It never sounds as good without one of the daughters!
Mason helped out on the guitar.  He had never played this song before.  I'll post the lyrics and cords.

Sweet Violets at the Assisted Living Home for Wilma

Radioactive at the Middle School Talent Show (grandsons), April, 2014

Trevor (beat box), Mason (guitar, back up vocal) and their little brother Carter (lead vocal) performing at the Middle School Talent Show.  Trevor on beat box is a little hard to hear, cause it sounds so natural and blends in.  No recorded music, all live.  These boys figured this out off I Tunes and rehearsed all on their own.  No sheet music, etc.  I'm very proud of them for putting themselves out there in front of the whole school  Way to go!!!!   They sound great.

Radioactive at the Middle School Talent Show (grandsons)

Adelin's Dream Dance at the School Talent Show

My daughter found this dress at the second hand store for $3.00 and gave it to her for her birthday.  You can tell that Adelin feels beautiful, and she is dancing so beautifully :) She told me she was going to twirl and do the splits at the talent show, and so she did! We all laughed so hard, and you would too if you knew her personality.


Adelin's Dream Dance at the Elementary School Talent Show

Peace On Earth With Daughters

This is absolutely one of my very favorite songs.  I learned it from my oldest sister, Sharyn, who taught us all the songs she had learned at girls camp while we drove in our car (Volkswagon Bug, 7 kids plus parents - it was a little tight).  The simple two part harmony, with no accompanient is clean and fresh.

I recorded this using the GoPro so it is a little unbalanced, as it was clipped to my guitar.  It picks up my voice the loudest, so the blend doesn't sound as good as it usually does.  Sorry.  I'll get a better recording someday…..

Peace On Earth, with daughters

3 Year Old Child's Version of Row Your Boat by 3 of my Grandsons

Grandpa and I were with Cooper, Taivan and Lincoln on Grandpa's trailer at the garden, eating lunch.  They grabbed hold and started turning and singing Row, Row, Row, Your Boat.  This is after they had sung it a few times, and I had time to grab my phone and record it, so they weren't quite as enthusiastic, but very fun.  Watch far enough into it for the fun part.

Row Your Boat, 3 Year Old Child's Version

A Little White Duck, lyrics and chords

A LITTLE WHITE DUCK LYRICS AND CHORDS (Key of D)

                 D                                                  A             A7                                            D
There's a little (white duck, floatin' on) the water,  A little white duck, doin' what he ought'r
                       (green frog, swimmin' in)
                       (black bug, floatin' on)
                       (red snake, slidin' through)
                       (earth worm, drownin' in)  


      G                        D              E                  E7                 A7     (spoken)
He took a bite of the lily pad, (flapped his wings) and he said, ("I'm glad") that I'm a
                                               (kicked his legs)                          (except on earth worm, "I'm SAD")
                                               (wiggled his ears)
                                               (flicked his tongue)
                                               (wiggled his tail)

D                                                  A            
Little white duck, floatin' on the water,            

(spoken with no guitar)     then D strum x 2
(Quack, quack, quack)
(Ribit, ribit, ribit)
(Beep, beep, beep)
(Hiss, hiss, hiss)
(Help! help! help!)

Go to A Little White Duck, Halle, Ashlyn and Anna's Class to watch/listen to video.

Land of the Silver Birch with Carter's Class on "Pajama Day"

What a fun day at school.  Carter and his friends are always fun and energetic (as they should be).  Pajama Day at school, that is why we are all so dressed up!

Land of the Silver Birch, Carter's Class

The Crazy Song (partial) (includes tutorial of the 1st verse)

This is only part of this song.  We sing the chorus and 2nd verse, and then I teach the 1st verse.  I hope you can appreciate the "opposite" examples.  Kids absolutely love this verse, and I hope you can understand that this is NOT about violence.  Just relax and have fun with it!  (It was also "Pajama Day" at school, so I wore my pjs too.  FUN!!!

Part of The "Crazy Song" and 1st verse Tutorial

Ah Woonie Koonie Chow, Lyrics (I'm sure none of this is spelled correctly)

AH WOONIE KOONIE CHOW A WOONIE

Ah woonie koonie chow ah woonie
Ah woonie koonie chow ah woonie
I,  i,  i,  icky  i  ki  a  moose
I,  i,  i,  icky  i  ki  a  moose
Ah woo,
Ah woonie kee chee


(Click to watch/listen to:

Ah Woonie Koonie Chow Ah Woonie w/Halle, Ashlyn and Anna's class

Ah Woonie Koonie…New Move, with boy singing w/opera voice

Ah Woonie Koonie with Mayce's class