All children love making an indoor blanket fort / cubby house out of nothing but chairs and blankets and cushions and pillows. This song captures the fun of creating your own hideaway in a corner of your lounge room... we have imagination on our side!
A very catchy song about the almost infinite freedom of a child's imagination. Want to wrestle a crocodile in the swamp? Pull a rotten tooth out of a lion's jaw? Build a castle for a King and a Queen? Climb the highest mountain in France? Ride a paper plane all the way to Mars? Thanks to your limitless imagination, you can do all of this and more!
(This song has enjoyed popularity on Australia's national ABC Kids)
The most popular song on the album "Hoppitydo", this is a passage-of-time song about growing up. The yellow duck doesn't have many friends and often plays alone in its little pond, not realising that someday it will be old enough to fly off on its own and find other ducks in a different pond. This song is dedicated to the composer's first grandchild, Makaiah.
Lots of children are fascinated with dump trucks or garbage trucks, the ones that have the huge claw that comes out to pick up the garbage bin and empty the contents into its stomach. This is a light rock ' n ' roll song told through the eyes of a young child who watches the truck pick up all the "paper, glass and tin" but "wonders how it all fits in".
(This song has enjoyed popularity on Australia's national ABC Kids)
Based partly on a beautiful children's book titled "The Invisible String" by Patrice Karst, the idea for this song came from the composer's childhood. Imagine if the moon was connected to us by a long piece of invisible string... now imagine that everyone is connected in this way.
"Maybe everyone who lives on the earth is joined but they simply don't see it... there's a common thread between you and I.
If it's tangled, we just have to free it"
Have you ever tried to tell what kind of animal you are seeing, just by the eyes that are looking back at you? This fun little song imagines four unique animals hiding behind different parts of their environment (a garden gate, a tree, a jungle fern, a zoo wall).
"Who's that hiding just behind the jungle fern?
From those eyes I wonder what we can learn?
The shape and size... what a nice surprise!
Who's looking at me? It's a chimpanzee!"
"My puppy dog has a great big tongue that hangs out like this...
He makes a sound like 'heh heh heh'
And tries to give me a kiss!
Sometimes he is naughty, comes inside with muddy feet.
But when he's a good boy, I give him a treat!
And he's my puppy - my playful puppy -
My cute and cuddly, furry, snuggly puppy."
Not everyone loves eggs, of course, but for those who do, what a choice we have! Boiled or scrambled, fried or poached. The composer, Russ Bauer, loves to slice his toast into "soldiers" so that he can dip them into the runny yolk... then wash it all down with a cup of tea. Is this worthy of a song? You bet it is! This is dedicated to all those who love eggs... and toast... and tea... and storms... and Batman... and
not-making-their-beds... and garbage trucks... and purple...
(This song has enjoyed popularity on Australia's national ABC Kids)
There's always a wide-eyed excitement that first time a child goes to a show or fair, the ones that have amusement rides and a sideshow alley with hotdogs and showbags and farm animals.
"We might buy a showbag, we could try the rides
Play the Lucky Clown game - maybe win a prize!
Look at all the animals, scratch the pony's ear.
Fill ourselves with fairy floss!
Then my Dad says he is glad it's only once a year..."
We guarantee there's no other song in the world with this title!
This is the tragic tale of a child who forgets to buy his mother a birthday card, so he tries to fix it by making one out of cardboard (we've all been there). Then they realise they also forgot to buy wrapping paper for the presents, and forgot about a birthday cake...
oh well. Maybe they'll get it all together for next year.
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