The Tree Song (The Green Grass Grows)
(Source: "The Kids' Campfire Book", Jane Drake and Ann Love, Kids Can Press, 1996.)
(in each verse, the leader sings a line and everyone repeats. Chorus is sung all together.)

(This song is a much-modernized version of the traditional "Rattlin' Bog".)

Once upon a time

There was a tree

The prettiest tree

That you ever did see!

Chorus:

And the tree was in the ground

And the green grass grew all around, all around,

And the green grass grew all around!

Now on that tree

There was a branch

Just the prettiest little branch

That you ever did see!

Chorus:

And the branch was on the tree

And the tree was in the ground

And the green grass grew all around, all around

And the green grass grew all around!

...add on twig, nest, egg, bird, wing, feather, flea, elephant!

Actions:

Ground: move both arms out from the body horizontally (i.e. as a movie director would when saying "cut!")

Tree: two hands trace parallel lines starting at the level of your head and heading downwards

Branch: hold one arm out as a branch

Twig: hold up your pinkie finger

Nest: cup your hands

Egg: make a fist

Bird: one hand pointed forward at your face as a beak, the other sticking out behind as a tail

Wing: flap one arm

Feather: trace the path a feather would take as it falls through the air

Flea: indicate something really small

Elephant: trace the outline of something really big!