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Special projects at the Music Service

3. Bangla songs for the Asian Songbook

Milk and Rice

Suggestions for classroom use

Create a steady crotchet ostinato on a tambour which will help to emphasise the unusual rhythm in this song.

Lyrics in English

Come Kooken!

Whose house has Kooken gone to?

Come, Kooken, Come home!

The rice is soaked in milk,

Birds are eating your rice!

The Baby Goat

Suggestions for classroom use

Use the beat of the chant as a clapping game:

X x X x

Sa – gol sa – na, Sa – gol sa – na,

X R L X

Thak di - na din.

X x X x

Du – i pa tu – le na – se,

Hug Turn

Ma - yer ka – se ka – se.

Key: X slap thighs

X clap hands

R slap chest with right hand

L slap chest with left hand

Hug give yourself a hug

Turn turn round once on the spot, ready to begin again.

Children could invent their own clapping games to the rhythm of the chant either individually or in pairs.

Lyrics in English

Baby goat, baby goat,

Tak dina din,

Up he dances on two legs

Near his mother.

Sleep Bird

Suggestions for classroom use

Sing this song sitting in a circle, so all the children can see each other. With young classes, teach the second half of the song so all can join in, teacher sings first half of song. Choose a child’s name to be sung in the song. That child then chooses another child for the next verse and so on.

Lyrics in English

The sleep bird has come

It is sitting on a fruit tree,

Give my (child’s name)

Some sleep

The Parrot

Suggestions for classroom use

Select suitable percussion instruments to play on the first beat of each bar.