In the fall of 2005, Ken Lonnquist was Thoreau's Artist in Residency. The students and Ken composed several songs together and we even recorded a CD!! Our Ken Lonnquist Sings With Thoreau Kids CDs from 2005 are still available for purchase! You can purchase a copy of the CD for $5. Make checks payable to Thoreau PTO. Occasionally MMSD Channel 10 broadcasts the Ken Lonnquist concert from October 11, 2005 so be on the lookout!
Click on the grade level link to view song lyrics and listen to an MP3 file!
Kindergarten
KIDS LOVE CARTOONS click to listen: Cartoons.mp3
Spongebob Squarepants, Scooby-doo and me
Every Saturday morning on TV
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
All over the world we feel the same
No matter where you live or what's your name
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
In Madison, Kids love Cartoons
In Chicago, Kids love Cartoons
In China and India, Kids love Cartoons
They love 'em every morning, night and noon
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
Power Puff Girls and Kim Possible
Not liking them is Impossible
Ninja Turtles, Batman, Spiderman
We like to watch 'em every chance we can
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
In the desert, Kids love Cartoons
In the mountains, Kids love Cartoons
In the cities, Kids love Cartoons
Whenever they're on, it's not a minute too soon!
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
Superman flies so high in the sky
Batman and Robin battle evil guys
I wonder if they're watching Spiderman
In Africa and in Afghanistan
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
In Georgia, Kids love Cartoons
In Milwaukee, Kids love Cartoons
In Minnesota, Kids love Cartoons
They love 'em in the morning, night and noon
Kids love Cartoons
Kids love Cartoons
CODA: Kids love cartoons..............Yes, we do!
1st Grade - Hurricane Katrina click to listen: Hurrican.mp3
Hurricane Katrina Was So Rough
Hurricane Katrina came
Blowin' into New Orleans
Crashing ocean waves and sheets of rain
Weather whirling wild and rough
Broke the levee, tore the roofs
Waters rising, what a Hurricane!
The children, they weren't fast enough
The parents, they weren't fast enough
The old folks, they weren't fast enough
Cause Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina was so rough
So rough, Hurricane Katrina, So rough, Hurricane Katrina
Jazz musicians shed a tear
'cause the clubs they love so dear
were abandoned to the rising flood
piano, trumpet, saxophone bass, guitar, and slide trombone
drums and tuba silenced by the mud
The Bass players, they weren't fast enough
Piano players, weren't fast enough
Horn players, they weren't fast enough
Cause Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina was so rough
So rough, Hurricane Katrina, So rough, Hurricane Katrina
Gators were a splashin' Twistin' and a thrashin'
Trying as the might to get away.
All along the Bayou Water was so high, you
Had to swim to live another day.
The gators, they weren't fast enough
Pelicans, weren't fast enough
The crawfish, they weren't fast enough
Cause Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina was so rough
So rough, Hurricane Katrina, So rough, Hurricane Katrina
All the Jambalya With it's spicy fiyah!
All the cajun gumbo recipes
All the tasty fixin's
The Creole chef's were mixin
The pots and pans were washed away to sea
The Cajun, they weren't fast enough
The Creole, they weren't fast enough
The pots and pans weren't fast enough
Cause Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Katrina was so rough
So rough, Hurricane Katrina, So rough, Hurricane Katrina
Apples click to listen: Apples mp3
**CHORUS: Apples, on a September day, Apples
Apples, picking them as we play, Apples
Juicy, red and green
Hanging from the tree
Nothing so sweet as these**
Hay rides, pumpkins grew,
Raspberries, good for you
Grapes and billy goats too.... and....**
Horses, lots of sheep
Apple sorting machines
Long hot bus ride, need sleep**
Some had holes and worms
Nibbling as they squirmed
Cider presses churned**
They grew all day long
Ripening like a song
We'll sing loud and strong about**
2nd Grade click to listen: World mp3
All Around the World/Por Todo el mundo
**All, around the world
The boys and girls
The rich and poor
Por todo el mundo
Chicas y chicos
Pobres y ricos
Deione says a Macadamia Man
In a Cadillac car in a foreign land
Decided to drive around the world
Visit all the little boys and girls
He drove his car across the ocean floor
The deep Pacific till he reached the shore.
He stopped in Asia, and then
He started traveling again!**
He drove underneath the Indian Ocean
The currents set his Cadillac in motion
For the shores of Africa
Where he surfaced in Somalia
Elephants and chimpanzees
Big Giraffes as tall as trees
Zebras striped in white and black
Watch that splashing Cadillac**
Deione's crazy macadamia man
Took the Cadillac steering wheel in his hand
Stepped on the gas 'cause he was frantic
To get across the gigantic Atlantic
Stepped ashore in Argentina
Penguins splashing, agua fina
Rainforest was a thrill
He chilled on the beaches of Brazil**
Up to the Gulf of Mexico
Accelerating 'til he slipped below
the ocean waves, fierce as can be.
Splashed ashore and hit a cactus tree
In the middle of a hurricane
Swirling clouds, wind and rain.
Scorpions, tarantulas, .... toucans
And flying Mariachi bands**
3rd Grade click to listen: Animals mp3
ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD
ANIMALES POR TODO EL MUNDO
**Animals all over the world
Animals all over the world
Animales por todo el mundo
Animales por todo el mundo
They give us life, food and drink, they keep us warm.
A sheltered place we call home in the storm
We use their hides to make the drums that we beat
For Rituals as we're dancing on our feet**
They help us work, herding sheep pulling plows
Heavy loads, people ride them even now
Elephants, Camels and horses, too.
There's no end to the work animals do.**
A serpent god of good and light, in Mexico
The Ho-Chunk here all revere the buffalo
The ritual shapes they made in the ground
Animal effigy spirit mounds**
China has a calendar that represents Animals.
It's lunar based and it makes sense.
In India, an Elephant god brings success.
Everywhere, our hopes and dreams, they express. **
BRIDGE: In Africa, a spider called Anansi is
A trickster-god who steals and plays jokes on kids
That's what he did**
Music Is: A Celebration, Communication
Music Is: Dancing, Singing, people bringing
Joy to our hearts, laughter to our souls,
peace to the world, dreams we can hold,
gathering our hearts, keeping the beat
Rhythms of life, dancing in our feet
Making Peace.......
Music Is: A Celebration, Communication
Music Is: Dancing, Singing, people bringing
Strumming guitars Vibrating strings
Beating a drum Let music ring!
Fingers can dance Piano keys
Boogie-Woogie Style Bending Your Knees
We can Sing
BRIDGE: (rapped style) Motown, Memphis Sound, Gospel, Rock, Hip Hop
Jazz and Blues make you move
Catch the rhythm, feel the groove.
Ragtime, Rock n' Roll, R & B, .....and Soul
Broadway, Spiritual,
Opera, Pop, Classical
Country,…. Bluegrass,
Dixieland, lots of brass
Old School Hip Hop, Punk, Reggae,
Calypso, Salsa, Merenge
New Age....
Music Is: Healing, Praying, it's what we're saying
Music Is: An Explanation of our Generation
Our thoughts and our styles The wild techno pace
Ipods in our ears Cell phones in our face
The clothes that we wear The things that we eat
The style of our hair The rhythm & the beat
Of our lives...........
Music Is
Music Is
Music Is
Elvis was a Multi-cultural Sandwich
Elvis was......
Elvis was.......
Elvis' favorite food was fried
Peanut Butter sandwich with banana inside
What a perfect metaphor
For the recipe that made his music soar!
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
He took a little white bread in his hands
Hillbillly music from the country bands
He took some peanut-butter sticky and brown
Rhythm and Blues and Gospel sound
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
A sliced banana wedged inside
A stick of butter ..mmm... deep fried African rhythms sweet and strong
Sizzling together inside his songs
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
BRIDGE: He had slick hair and rhinestones bright
Dressin' up in jumpsuits that fit too tight
He was known all around the world
Wigglin' his hips for the screaming girls
.......uh huh ...oh, baby
.......uh huh ...oh, baby
.......uh huh ...oh, baby
.......uh huh ...oh, baby
Elvis' was the King, the Hillbilly Cat
First to have an impact like that
Thirty years gone still doing his thing
Long live Elvis the Rock-n-roll King!
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
Elvis was a multi-cultural sandwich
.......uh huh ...oh, baby
Thank you, Thank you Very Much!
You gave me 2, I gave you 4
Now I've got fewer, and you've got more
I gave you 4, you gave me 8
Now I've got more upon my plate
CHORUS: More and fewer are words I know
About where everything comes and goes
Here and there. There and here
Things pop up and disappear
The Rain in the clouds falling down
There's less in the clouds and more on the ground
I had an idea, you gave me one
So I've got two and you've got none
More and fewer things always change
They come and go, but that's not strange.
Here and there, There and here
Some pop up and disappear
I had no dime, you gave me one
I've got 10 cents, you've got none
It made two nickels split in two
I kept one for me and gave one to you
More and fewer are words I know
About where everything comes and goes
Here and there, There and here
Some pop up and disappear
A bag of popcorn I filled your bowl.
Now my bag's got a great big hole.
I gave you more than I kept for me.
So I've got less it's plain to see.
More and fewer are words I know
About where everything comes and goes
Here and there, There and here
Some pop up and disappear
There's some new kids in our class
The K's got more and the Ones got less
Multiply and you'll have lots.
The more you divide the less you've got.
More and fewer are words I know
About where everything comes and goes
Here and there, There and here
Some pop up and disappear
We were on the floor but some sat on chairs.
There's fewer on the floor and more up there.
You take from here and put it there
More and fewer, it's just not fair!
More and fewer things always change
They come and go, but that's not strange.
Here and there, There and here
Some pop up and disappear
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