I was substitute teaching middle school today and I wanted to sing some songs with the kids. Here are the songs we sang. 🙂
You Are My Sunshine – new words by todd thompson
CHORUS: You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
1. I love you truly, I love you always
I love you every single day
You light up my world when you are near me
And your sunshine shows me the way. CHORUS:
2. Of course there’s times, dear, when I am lonely
And there are times when I feel fine
I know you’ll always be here inside me
But when you leave sometimes I cry. CHORUS:
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
1. I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
CHORUS: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu – jah.
2. Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah. Chorus:
La Bamba
by Ritchie Valens
Para bailar la Bamba.
Para bailar la Bamba se necesita un poca de gracia.
Una poca de gracia para mi para ti y arriba, arriba;
Y arriba, arriba por ti se re por ti se re se re.
CHORUS:
Ba, ba, bam-ba Ba, ba, bam-ba, Ba, ba, bam-ba,
Yo no soy marinero, Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan;
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan.
What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor
- traditional
1. What do you do with a drunken sailor?
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Earl-ie in the morning.
Chorus : Way hey and up she rises, Way hey and up she rises,
Way hey and up she rises, Earl-aye in the morning
MORE VERSES:
2. Put him in a longboat ‘til he sobers
3. Bung him in a cask and tow him behind her
4. Put him in the bilge and make him drink it
5. Shave his belly with a rusty razor
6. Hang him from the rigging out o’er the water
7. Soak him in oil till he sprouts a flipper
Waving Flag by K’naan C  F  Am  G
      Oh . . .
1. Give me freedom, give me fire
 Give me reason, take me higher
 See the champions, take the field now
 Unify us, make us feel proud.
2. In the streets our hands are liftin’,
 As we lose our inhibitions
Celebration it’s around us, every nation all around us!
CHORUS:
  Singing forever young,
  Singing songs underneath the sun
  Let’s rejoice in the beautiful game
  And together at the end of the day. We all say
   When I get older, I will be stronger,
   They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ flag
  So wave your flag, and wave your flag
Now wave your flag oh oh oh
Lion Sleeps Tonight African folk song
recorded by the Tokens
CHORUS
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight CHORUS
Near the village, the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village, the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight CHORUS
Hush my darling, don’t fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling, don’t fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight CHORUS