[HANASHIR:14038] Re: Frog Song verses wanted

[Carol Boyd Leon <cbleon...>]

Dear friends at Hanashir,

I don't mean to be a party-pooper, but...

...I hope you won't mind my presenting another point a view regarding 
expanding The Frog Song, thereby making light of all the plagues and having 
elementary school-age student rolicking about them.

Even though I always teach my preschoolers and kindergartners The Frog Song 
(single verse) and I even provided this list with lyrics I found to a frog 
song set to a Disney melody, I believe there's a limit to how much we should 
be laughing about all 10 plagues via songs, toys, etc.  I teach The Frog 
Song to very young children to help them understand that God intervened to 
cause Pharaoh to change his mind, but I really don't find it especially 
appropriate to present songs which have everyone laughing about all the 
plagues.  They're really not a laughing matter and it seems to me to be 
inappropriate for us as Jews to rejoice about the misfortune of others.  
Let's rejoice instead over our good fortune to have been freed from 
slavery...

Respectfully,
Carol

Carol Boyd Leon
Songwriter/Cantorial Soloist/Music Educator
E-mail:  CBLeon (at) hotmail(dot)com
Phone:  703-250-0554
Web page:  http://www.geocities.com/CBoydLeon





----Original Message Follows----
From: Gordon Lustig <gordonza (at) earthlink(dot)net>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Subject: [HANASHIR:14013] Frog Song verses wanted
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 15:04:28 -0800

Could someone Email me all the verses to The Frogs Song? "One Morning When
Pharoah..."

Thanks

gordon




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