The Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan [67]
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever see a whale
With a polka dot tail?”
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay (Down by the bay)
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever see a bear
Combing his hair?”
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay (Down by the bay)
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever see a moose
Kissing a goose?”
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay (Down by the bay)
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever see a fly
Wearing a tie?”
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay (Down by the bay)
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever see some llamas
Wearing pajamas?”
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay (Down by the bay)
Where the watermelons grow
(Where the watermelons grow)
Back to my home (Back to my home)
I dare not go (I dare not go)
For if I do (For if I do)
My mother will say (My mother will say)
“Did you ever have a time
When you couldn’t make a rhyme?”
Down by the bay.
ERIE CANAL
I’ve got a mule,
Her name is Sal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
She’s a good old worker
And a good old pal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
We’ve hauled some barges in our day
Filled with lumber, coal and bay
And ev’ry inch of the way I know
From Albany to Buffalo.
Low Bridge, ev’rybody down,
For it’s Low Bridge,
We’re coming to a town!
You can always tell your neighbor,
You can always tell your pal,
If you’ve ever navigated
On the Erie Canal.
Low Bridge, ev’rybody down,
For it’s Low Bridge,
We’re coming to a town!
You can always tell your neighbor,
You can always tell your pal,
If you’ve ever navigated
On the Erie Canal.
We better get along
On our way, old gal,
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal.
Cause you bet your life
I’d never part with Sal,
Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal.
Git up there, mule, here comes a lock,
We’ll make Rome ’bout six o’clock.
One more trip and back we’ll go
Right back home to Buffalo.
Low Bridge, ev’rybody down,
For it’s Low Bridge,
We’re coming to a town!
You can always tell your neighbor,
You can always tell your pal,
If you’ve ever navigated
On the Erie Canal.
Low Bridge, ev’rybody down,
For it’s Low Bridge,
We’re coming to a town!
You can always tell your neighbor,
You can always tell your pal,
If you’ve ever navigated
On the Erie Canal.
Coolest Paper Airplane Ever
ORDINARY PAPER AIRPLANES that look like jumbo jets and fighters are one thing. This airplane is something else altogether. We don’t have an official name for it (why not make one up yourself?), but this folded wonder is something special.
HOW TO MAKE IT
Take a piece of ordinary 8½″ × 11″ paper. Hold the paper so it’s tall rather than wide, and fold the page in half lengthwise. Crease the center, using your fingernail. Unfold. That’s fold #1.
Fold the left side in to touch the center crease. You’ve just made a new left edge. That’s fold #2.
Fold the new left edge to touch the center crease, creating again a new left edge (fold #3).
Then fold the edge over the center line, and crease the top with your fingernail (fold #4).
So you can make your airplane into a circle, soften the paper. Wrap it around your hand, or pull it against the edge of a desk or table, as when you curl ribbon . This breaks down the fibers in the paper. Soon the paper