In The Round
If you want a way to truly freak your children out, do singing in the Round with them. Do it in the car. Of course, the classic in the round song is Row, Row, Row your boat. For us Aussies, Kookaburra Sits In the Old Gum Tree works just as well. I guess if you were French you could sing Frère Jacques.
The whole point is to have one of the adults (who act like children) start singing, and then after the first line has been sung, the other adult starts singing from the start. This forms a nice vocal counterpoint. It also has the effect of the children in the back of the car screaming "No, No, No! That's not right. Stop It. STOP IT MUM and DAD! Waaaaah". Maybe its just my sensitive children who freak out in this manner.
The way to do it is like Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo did it as Clark and Ellen Griswold in National Lampoon's Vacation. They sang the variant of Hush Little Baby known as Mockingbird, and although not strictly in the round, it was enough to make both of their kids put their walkman headphones on. Oh that's right, we're in the Noughties now, so I should say IPod instead of Walkman shouldn't I.
Ciao for Now, Everybody - have you heard - Angry Dad's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird.
The whole point is to have one of the adults (who act like children) start singing, and then after the first line has been sung, the other adult starts singing from the start. This forms a nice vocal counterpoint. It also has the effect of the children in the back of the car screaming "No, No, No! That's not right. Stop It. STOP IT MUM and DAD! Waaaaah". Maybe its just my sensitive children who freak out in this manner.
The way to do it is like Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo did it as Clark and Ellen Griswold in National Lampoon's Vacation. They sang the variant of Hush Little Baby known as Mockingbird, and although not strictly in the round, it was enough to make both of their kids put their walkman headphones on. Oh that's right, we're in the Noughties now, so I should say IPod instead of Walkman shouldn't I.
Ciao for Now, Everybody - have you heard - Angry Dad's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird.
posted by Wes at 8:32 pm
1 Comments:
ha ha ha ha ha !!
That's classic - I remember that movie scene .. so funny :))
As for singing, our son hates it when we sing along to the radio/CD player in the car. He shouts "NONONONONONONO", so yesterday, we REALLY got into it - would have been a hoot for anyone next to us in traffic .. we really hammed it up, bopping along to Robbie Williams.
Master B couldn't have been more disgusted .. :)
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