A high-energy, joyful explosion of youthful creativity. Built on a bright call-and-response framework and setting a poem actually written by a child, this piece features a lively piano part and infectious percussion. It’s perfect for teaching syncopation, crisp diction, and rhythmic independence to a children’s or treble choir while keeping rehearsal energy sky-high.
I found this infectious little item in a book of contemporary poems composed by children selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, creating a ditty of a piece that uses just one repeated rhythm and simple chord progression. Accompaniment is piano, bongos or conga, and triangle. There is about 1:20 of music, with a trick/false ending, before it repeats.
A fun middle school piece.
The text is from “It’s Inside of Me!” by Adam Delavan. Salting the Ocean, 100 Poems by Young Poets. Sung here by Emily McNally via Fiverr.com.
It’s Inside of Me!
The movement of
Rivers is in me.
In my blood.
The smartness of Einstein
Is in me.
In my head.
The stillness of rocks
Is in me.
In my body.
The color of trees
Is in me.
In my skin.
The looseness of dirt
Is in me.
In my bones.
The fastness of rabbits
Is in me.
In my legs.
The seeing of eagles
Is in me.
In my eyes.
The neatness of cats
Is in me.
In my hands.
That is me.