I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas
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).
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I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas
Vowel Song
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays
I like to ate, ate, ate ay-ples and ba-nay-nays
I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees
I like to eat, eat, eat ee-ples and bee-nee-nees
I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys
I like to ite, ite, ite i-ples and by-ny-nys
I like to ote, ote, ote oh-ples and bo-no-nos
I like to ote, ote, ote oh-ples and bo-no-nos
I like to oot, oot, oot oo-ples and boo-noo-noos
I like to oot, oot, oot oo-ples and boo-noo-noos
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas
I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.
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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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!