February 2014: PBnDeb Song of the Month

It's February, winter is dragging on, except in California. We could actually use more SNOW! By this time many people have been housebound for awhile and are in need of adventure. Here's a fun tune to share with your child about not sitting around in a mopey mood, but getting outside and seeing what fun can be found right there in your neighborhood.

This song is for all housebound Moms, Dads and Kids! Adventure is all around you...

Art by Rex Watkins @2008.

Let’s Go For a Ride
© 2004 Snyder and Bynoe

Too many days

I’m sitting in my room

Feeling really bored

Sort of crabby, grumpy too

Want to shake myself awake

Don’t want to sit and fret – no way!

I think I’ll go put on my clothes and

Welcome in the day.

Let’s go for a ride!

Hang out in the countryside.

Open up your mind --

See what magic we can find.

Rode my bike real fast

Flew over Billy Goats Gruff!

Found a lady bug to dance with

Met a dog that licked too rough

I jumped into a big cool lake

Then I spotted something green

I swam right out, caught me a frog

And stuck him in my jeans.

Let’s go for a ride!

Hang out in the countryside.

Open up your mind --

See what magic we can find.

Let’s go for a ride!

Hang out in the countryside.

Open up your mind --

See what magic we can find.

SPOKEN [You know its funny but after I after I let that frog go and it hopped away.  I was feelin’ like happy.  And I realized whenever I feel blue or cranky or grumpy, I’m not gonna give into that feeling.  I’m gonna shake myself awake get out and see what I can see!]

SUNG [Out in the world or here at home I know I can be

So happy, If I shake myself awake and see all I can see.]

Let’s go for a ride!

Hang out in the countryside.

Open up your mind --

See what magic we can find.

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January 2014 Song of the Month

Let Me Tell Ya All A Story

(Kids fighting)

(Grandma’s whistle)

Let me tell ya all a story

Well It might be one that really happened to me

Or it might be one I make up – we’ll see

Once upon a time gramps gave to me

A space rock that fell from the sky

So black and shiny I wore it on a chain

But little did I know its power

One day there comes a knocking at my door

Strange no-one’s there

My heart is pounding, my eyes lose focus

Then a blue space helmet appears

(Grandma’s whistle)

Let me tell ya all a story

Well It might be one that really happened to me

Or it might be one I make up – we’ll see

I saw a green creature an alien thing

Had an eye, no nose, 2 teeth

He gorbeld and grumpeld and pointed at me

But I didn’t understand what he wanted

He froze me up I couldn’t move

Then his helmet floated up

He gently set it on my head

Suddenly he and I could talk.

(alien)

I come from a planet you call Pluto

It’s cold dark and far far away

On landing my ship on this planet

Some pieces dropped to the ground

That black diamond rock round your neck

Is what I nedd to fly

Can I have it back?

I said, "yes with a gleam in my eye."

(Grandma’s whistle)

Let me tell ya all a story

Well It might be one that really happened to me

Or it might be one I make up – we’ll see

Gramps and I took a wild space ride

With our friend from Pluto proper

Blue helmets on we chatted that night with his family

I baked ‘em a cake – They gave us stardust

We all drank tea

Now if you think this tale is true

I gat a better one for you..

(Grandma’s whistle)

Let me tell ya all a story

Well It might be one that really happened to me

Or it might be one I make up – we’ll see!

This CD is available for purchase at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/pbndeb.  You can download it from amazon.com or the iTunes store, simply search on PBnDeb.  You can also listen to it right now on our website www.pbndeb.com!