In this song you repeat the same verse over and over again, but on each repetition you make the words have a specific vowel sound (i.e. a, e, i, o, u).

I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas - American Children's Songs - The USA - Mama Lisa's World: Children's Songs and Rhymes from Around the World - Intro Image

Notes

Barbara Walton wrote:

"I'm a children's librarian and I've been using your site for a while to add non-English songs to the mix in storytime. It's a godsend!

I found this this morning and I can't *wait* to start storytime again to use it; I like it much better for vowels than Apples and Bananas:

Apocalypse

With an a, a, day-bay-day-bay day,
Let me have a dolly who is made of clay

.... etc made of cheese/made of ice/made of gold/just like you."

The song Barbara is referring to is actually the English translation of a Spanish song from the Dominican Republic called Apocalipsis (Apocalypse).

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Sheet Music

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Thanks and Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Abby Carvin for contributing this song. Thanks to Barbara Walton for sharing another vowel song like this one!

Thanks so much!