The Window (The Second-Story Window)
(Source: "The Kids' Campfire Book", Jane Drake and Ann Love, Kids Can
Press, 1996; also in "Campfire Activities", Girl Guides of Canada,
1993.)
- The window, the window
- The second-story window
- If you don't know a nursery rhyme
- We'll throw you out the window!
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow
- And every where that Mary went -
- She threw it out the window!
- The window, the window...
(Repeat with other nursery rhymes until you run out! You
can also divide your singing group into teams and sing this song as a competition.)
Other Examples:
- Little Jack Horner sat in his corner, eating his Christmas
pie
- He stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plumb -
- And threw it out the window!
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey
- Along came a spider and sat down beside her -
- And she threw it out the window!
Georgie porgie pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made
them cry
- When the boys came out to play -
- They threw him out the window!
Little boy blue, come blow your horn, the sheep's in the
meadow, the cow's in the corn
- Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
- We threw him out the window!
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
- Jack jump over the candlestick or
- We'll throw you out the window!