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The Bees' Party
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The Bees' Party
Children's Song

The bees gave a party and invited all they knew
The wasps and the hornets and a few mosquitoes, too
Yo-ho, and hey! every orchard tree was humming with a
buzz-buzz-buzz
On that sunny summer day.

The bees said, "Good-day, and won't you make yourself at home?"
The band played sweet music, which it made upon a comb
A lovely scene was that happy party, gaily singing
buzz-buzz-buzz
As they danced upon the green.

Miss Wasp asked the Bumblebee if he would sing a song
She said they would listen if it wasn't very long
The bee said, "Oh, very gladly I will sing for you, but
hum-sweet-hum
Is the only tune I know."

The hours passed too quickly and the day was too-soon sped
The wasps and the hornets said "good-night" and went to bed
But ho! and hey! the mosquitoes never stopped their singing
buzz-buzz-buzz
'Til the dawning of the day.

Comments

Mary said, "We had Irish nuns in grammar school who taught us this… a very long time ago."

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Thanks to Mary Grasso for contributing this song!

Many thanks to Joan Shepard for sing The Bees' Party for us!

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