[HANASHIR:12391] Re: What d'ya think of this song?

[Marti Nerenstone <mnerenstone...>]

these are more lyrics than I have sung - the verse about coming off the
ark - I have always sung it with the animals coming off in threesies,
with elephants and chimpanzeeses (may be better for young audiences) - I
also have everyone standing/sitting etc

Ellen Allard wrote:

> Okay, so I'm curious about this song. Anyone have any particular
> opinions about using it in conjunction with teaching about Noah? In a
> children's Shabbat service?
>
> RISE AND SHINE
>
> Chorus: Oh, rise and shine, and give G-d your glory, glory
> Rise and shine, and give G-d your glory, glory
> Rise and shine and give G-d your glory, glory
> Children of the Lord!
>
> The Lord said to Noah, there¹s gonna be a flood-y flood-y (2x)
> Get your children (clap) out of the muddy, muddy
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> The Lord said to Noah, ³You¹d better build an ark-y, ark-y² (2x)
> Build it out of (clap) birchy bark-y, bark-y
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> The animals they came in, they came in by two-sy, two-sy (2x)
> Elephants and (clap) kangar00-sy, roo-sy
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> It rained and rained for 40 nights and 40 daysies (2x)
> Drove those animals (clap) nearly crazy, crazy
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> Noah, he looked up and he saw a dove-y, dove-y (2x)
> Saw it up in (clap) heaven above-y, bove-y
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> The sun came out and dried up the land-y, land-y (2x)
> Everything was (clap) fine and dandy, dandy,
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> The animals came off, came off by threesies, threesies (2x)
> They¹d heard about those (clap) birds and beesies, beesies
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> This is the end of, the end of my songy, songy (2x)
> Hope it¹s not too (clap) longy, longy
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
> This is the end of, the end of my story, story (2x)
> Everything is (clap) hunky dory, dory
> Children of the Lord! Chorus
>
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