Yesterday, I was approached by one of the teachers at Santa Cruz who was doing some singing lessons with her preschool class. She wanted to know if I knew any short songs which were easy to learn. The catch was they had to be in Spanish. I immediately thought of 'three blind mice'. Unfortunately, the third line is brutal to sing and I seem to remember that it involved being chased by a farmer's wife with a knife (I think?). Additionally, I don't know the word for 'blind'. So, in the interests of 4 years old and political correctness, this was dumbed down in translation to: There are three blind mice, see how they run, they run there and over here, there are three mice. Sorry, couldn't be bothered to type all the repetitions out.
However, it struck me that twinkle twinkle little star / baa baa black sheep / the alphabet song (all basically variants of the same tune) would be appropriate. So we stuck our heads together and came up with:
Armonia es un lugar (armonia is a place)
Donde vamos a jugar (where we go to play)
Hay maestros y gueros (there are teachers and 'pale people')
Aprendemos de Dios (we learn about God)
Nos gustan estar aqui, (we like being here)
En communidad asi. (in this community)
Now my Britishness tells me not to say anything but i'm quite pleased with it so i thought you might enjoy singing it. Altogether now: Armonia es un lugar ....
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i will happily join in with the singing :-)
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