Songwriting

My daughter loves Fridays because she gets to go to music class.

She was regaling me at 7:15am with a song about kangaroos and wallabies, one she learned last week in music class and hoped to sing later in the day (spoiler: she did).

This evening, she’s mixing songs she learned with ones she’s written.

One of the former goes thusly:

Have you ever heard of pumpkin bones

Pumpkin bones

Pumpkin bones?

Have you ever heard of pumpkin bones

early in the morning?

She began to sing it with a fake British accent after a few minutes.

Then came a more elaborate one of her own design that started familiarly and soon took a turn:

Ring around the rosies

Pocket full of posies

We climb up the ladder

And I push you down the slide

I slide down the pole

But you stay up high

Then we go and get on the see saw. See?

Then we take a break from playing.

We’ll see how many of these ditties last longer in her memory longer than tonight and if the ones that lost are her own creation or the ones she’s learned from school.