What Little Fish Say
(sung to the tune of "The Sailor's Hornpipe")
Tell me what would happen if we were fishing here
and we would fall asleep in the middle of the pier?
Well, we might just roll around and no one there would wake us up
and we would fall into the water and the fish would say,
"Nibble nibble gulp, gobble gobble swallow bite,
it's a big one, Mom, it could take us all night.
Gotta chomp a little, chew a little, gobble gobble nibble nibble,
Daddy when you finish, pass the ketchup please."
Tell me what would happen if we were driving there
and we all took a ride on a little yellow fer-ry?
We'd park our car inside the boat and if the ferry didn't float,
we'd fall into the water and the fish would say,
"Nibble nibble gulp, gobble gobble swallow bite,
it's a big one, Mom, it could take us all night.
Gotta chomp a little, chew a little, gobble gobble nibble nibble,
Daddy when you finish, pass the ketchup please."
Tell me what would happen if we woke up at three
so we could be the first when we go to water ski?
Well, we all would be so groggy and our brains would be so foggy,
that we'd fall into the water and the fish would say,
"Nibble nibble gulp, gobble gobble swallow bite,
it's a big one, Mom, it could take us all night.
Gotta chomp a little, chew a little, gobble gobble nibble nibble,
Daddy when you finish, pass the ketchup please."
// author's note: these were lyrics I wrote for my kids to sing while we were traveling in the car/van sung to the familiar tune of the Sailor's Hornpipe (you can youtube it). It proved particularly useful for passing the time during long family vacation trips we took. In retrospect the lyrics seem a little on the dark side, but both kids have grown into perfectly normal adults, save for an inexplicable aversion to the ocean and ketchup ; ^) //
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