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New Germany Elementary Choir

  New Germany Elementary Choir is an opportunity for grade three through six students to sing as part of a school choir. We will rehearse once a week allowing students to develop musicianship through singing, build team working skills by contributing to a large group, and perform for various concerts and assemblies. 

Bluenose - David Martin

 

In the town of Lunenburg down Nova Scotia way,

In nineteen twenty-one on a windy day,

A sailing ship was born, Bluenose was her name,

Will we ever see her kind again?

 

Chorus: Bluenose, the ocean knows her name,
Sailors know how proud a ship was she;
Bluenose, leaning in the wind,
Racing every wave of the sea.

 

Her sails were snowy white, they strained against the mast,

The spray blew high as she went rolling past;

And from the very first, old Bluenose liked to run,

She liked the smell of sea and the sun.

 

Chorus

 

For twenty-five long years she ruled the Northern sea,

Racing like a queen on the tide;

And on the Caribbean one dark and stormy day,

She ran into a reef and died.

 

Chorus

 

Now just the other day, down Nova Scotia way,

In Lunenburg they christened a ship;

Just like the old Bluenose, to the very name,

The Bluenose lives and sails again.

 

Chorus x 2

Bluenose - Ms. Sheffield
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I Wan'na Be Like You - Ms. Sheffield
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I Wan’na Be Like You - Jungle Book

 

Now I'm the king of the swingers,

Oh, the jungle VIP,

I've reached the top and had to stop,

And that's what botherin' me.

 

I wanna be a man, mancub,

And stroll right into town,

And be just like the other men,

I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

 

Oh, oobee doo

I wanna be like you, ooh, ooh!

I wanna walk like you,

Talk like you, too, ooh, ooh!

You'll see it's true, ooh, ooh!

An ape like me, ee, ee.

Can learn to be hu-ooh-ooh-man too, Ooh-ooh.

 

Don't try to kid me, mancub,

And don’t get in a stew

What I desire is man's red fire,

So I can be like you.

 

Give me the secret, mancub

Just clue me what to do,

Give me the pow’r 

of man's red flow’r,

And make my dream come true! 

 

Oh, oobee doo

I wanna be like you, ooh, ooh!

I wanna walk like you,

Talk like you, too, ooh, ooh!

You'll see it's true, ooh, ooh!

An ape like me, ee, ee.

Can learn to be hu-ooh-ooh-man too, Ooh-ooh.

 

Let’s go Fly a Kite - Mary Poppins

 

With tuppence for paper and strings

You can have your own set of wings;

With your feet on the ground,

You're a bird in a flight

With your fist holding tight

To the string of your kite

 

Oh, oh, oh!

Let's go fly a kite

Up to the highest height!

Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere,

Up where the air is clear.

Oh, let's go fly a kite!

 

When you send it flyin' up there,

All at once you're lighter than air;

You can dance on the breeze

Over houses and trees

With your first 'olding tight 

To the string of your kite.

 

Oh, oh, oh!

Let's go fly a kite

Up to the highest height!

Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere,

Up where the air is clear.

Oh, Let's go fly a kite!

Let's Go Fly a Kite - Ms. Sheffield
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Best Day of my Life

 

Verse 1:

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. I had a dream so big and loud

I jumped so high I touched the clouds

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh, wo-o-o-o-o-oh

I stretched my hands out to the sky

We danced with monsters through the night

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh, wo-o-o-o-o-oh

 

Pre Chorus:

I'm never gonna look back

Woah, never gonna give it up

No, please don't wake me now

 

Chorus:

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.                                               This is gonna be the best day of my life

Ooh, ooh, ooh, my li-i-i-i-i-ife                                  My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.                                               This is gonna be the best day of my life

Ooh, ooh, ooh, my li-i-i-i-i-ife                                  My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

 

Verse 2:

I howled at the moon with friends

And then the sun came crashing in

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh, wo-o-o-o-o-oh

But all the possibilities

No limits just epiphanies

Wo-o-o-o-o-oh, wo-o-o-o-o-oh

 

Pre Chorus

Chorus

 

Bridge:

I hear it calling outside my window

I feel it in my soul

The stars were burning so bright

The sun was out 'til midnight

I say we lose control

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

 

Chorus

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.                                               This is gonna be, this is gonna be the best day of my life

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.                                               Ev’rything is looking up, ev’rybody up now.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.                                               This is gonna be the best day of my life

Ooh, ooh, ooh, my li-i-i-i-i-ife                                  My li-i-i-i-i-ife

Two Canadian Folk Songs

 

Land of the silver birch, 

Home of the beaver,

Where still the mighty moose 

Wanders at will.

 

Blue lake and rocky shore, 

I will return once more,

Boom di-di boom boom 

boom di-di boom boom

boom di-di boom boom boom

 

My paddles keen and bright,

Flashing with silver,

Follow the wild goose flight,

Dip dip and swing.

 

Dip dip and swing her back,

Flashing with silver,

Follow the wild goose flight

Dip dip and swing.

 

High on a rocky ledge,          My paddles keen and bright,

I’ll build my wigwam,             Flashing with silver,

Close by the water’s edge,    Follow the wild goose flight

Silent and still.                       Dip dip and swing.

 

Blue lake and rocky shore,   Dip dip and swing her back,

I will return once more,         Flashing with silver,
Boom di-di boom boom        Follow the wild goose flight

boom di-di boom boom

boom di-di boom boom boom  Dip dip and swing

Two Canadian Folk Songs - Musicplay
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Wave Over Wave

 

Me name's Abel Rogers, a shareman am I,
On a three-masted schooner from Twillingate Isle;
I've been the world over, north, south, east, and west,
But the middle of nowhere's where I like it best.

 

Chorus:

Where it's wave over wave, sea over bow,
I'm as happy a man as the sea will allow;
There's no other life for a sailor like me,
But to sail the salt sea, boys, sail the sea;
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea.

 

I'd leave my wife lonely ten months of the year,
She made me a home and raised my children dear;
But she'd never come out to bid farewell to me,
Or ken why a sailor must sail the salt sea.

 

Chorus

 

I've sailed the wide oceans four decades or more,
And many times wondered what I do it for;
I don't know the answer, it's pleasure and pain,
With life to live over, I'd do it again.

 

Chorus
There's no other life but to sail the salt sea

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