Sipping Cider Through a Straw
"Sippin Cider" is an echo song where the "leader" sings each line and then the "group" repeats each line. Then at the end of each verse the whole group sings the whole verse together.
Sipping Cider Through a Straw
Echo Song
The prettiest girl,
I ever saw,
Was sipping cider
Through a straw.
I asked her if,
She'd show me how,
To sip that cider
Through a straw.
Then cheek to cheek,
And jaw to jaw,
We sipped that cider
Through a straw.
Every now and then,
The straw would slip,
I'd sip some cider
From her lip.
The parson came
To her backyard,
A sipping cider
From a straw.
And now I have
A mother-in-law,
And fourteen kids
To call me Pa.
The moral of
This little tale,
Is sip your cider
From a pail!
Notes
You can replace "The prettiest girl" line with "the cutest boy".
Comments
Original version was composed by Carey Morgan and Lee David in 1919.
Nancy sent the following recording with the note:
"I have more verses for you for a different version. We sang this in junior high school while we were on field trips in the early 1960s in Northern New Jersey..."
The prettiest girl I ever saw
was sippin' cider through a straw.
(Repeat)
I said to her, "What you doin' that for
a sippin' cider through a straw?"
(Repeat)
She said to me, "Why don't you know
that sippin' cider's all I know?"
(Repeat)
Now 28 kids all call me paw
from sippin' cider through a straw.
(Repeat)
This is the end. There ain't no more
of sippin' cider through a straw.
(Repeat)
Many thanks to Nancy Membrez for singing "The Prettiest Girl" for us!
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This version of the song can be found on the site, Scouting Resources UK.
Many thanks to Gracie Gralike for the illustration.
Thanks so much!
