Ah, music.
Isn’t music wonderful? It can pick you up. It can calm you down. It can change your mood from one second to the other. That’s not always good, of course. It can make you angry. Think Europop of the 90s and you know what I am talking about. I am pretty sure that Capella can be blamed for 90% of the homicides in 1993.
Anyway. Recently I had complained about the sorry state of German songs for kids and asked for examples.
I did not get much feedback on this. Thank you very much. For nothing! Lazy…
Jimmy told me it was a nice entry. Which once more shows his impeccable taste… when it comes to writing. Everything else is a forrest of bamboo, but this would go too far here. Alex went the extra mile and gave me pointers on which songs are out there and might work out. With that help I could find songs on iTunes and YouTube which did not sound like fingernails scraping over a chalkboard or the prison choir of booze town.
Now, Oskar likes most of the songs Alex suggested (which means there’s lots of excited jumping), but I was still looking for something more basic and shorter. Something simple enough that I could sing to him and that was closer in spirit to Ah les crocodiles or Pirouette, Cacahuète.
Embarrassingly enough, it was once more my French wife who came across a song that worked:
This one’s pretty easy to sing and even easier to memorize.
Now one or two more of these, and combined with the list from Alex I am all set for the next 8 years.
