- Peter's Fountain
- (to the tune of "An Old Austrian")
Thanks very, very much to Marianne "Sunshine" Mitchell
and Amy Porteous, who helped me piece together this song!
The actions for this song are similar to "An Old
Austrian" - slap knees, clap hands, then snap fingers. BUT with each
chorus, you snap your fingers the number of times required for that verse:
- Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- Where we've had so much fun
- We will look for those cuckoos
- And this time there's one:
Chorus:
- Yo-delayyy, keeee....
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo!
- Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- I will go there with you
- We will count all the cuckoos
- And this time there's two
Chorus:
- Yo-delayyy, keeee....
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo, cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo, cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo-delayy cuckoo, cuckoo
- Yo-delayy ki ki, yo!
- Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- We will have some tea
- We'll look for the cuckoos,
- And this time there's three!
(Chorus with three "cuckoos"... etc.)
- Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- We will look for them once more
- We'll count all the cuckoos,
- And now there are four!
Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- We will play some tricks
- We'll look for the cuckoos
- And now there are six!
Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- Where we'll visit my cousin
- We will count all the cuckoos
- And now there's a dozen!
Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- Where we've had so much fun
- We will look for the cuckoos
- But this time there's none!
Let's go back to Peter's fountain
- Isn't this nifty
- Once more look for cuckoos,
- And this time there's fifty!