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Hedgehog Chorus as Nursery Rhyme!

from A Rose From My Mother's Garden by Ruth Cooke

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I used to do storytelling from time to time with the forest school Kindlings in Brighton, now sadly no more. They half-inched the chorus of my hedgehog song and turned it into a nursery rhyme complete with actions! (I can’t help thinking that is true fame!) When they made a farewell CD of the songs they had used round the fi re they invited me to join the gang at the recording studio and this is the result. And here, for anyone who would like to pass this on to a new generation, are the actions, thank you Polly Charlton!

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A nursery rhyme with actions!
I just want to be a hedgehog,
Snooze away the winter in a nice leafy pile…..
(rest head against hands and close eyes)

I just want to be a hedgehog,
Curl into a ball and escape for a while…..
(raise arms in circular shape above head and bend forward - like a ball)

But everyone around me is so wizzy wizzy wizzy
(point fingers, raise hand & make a swirly motion)

All running round in a tizzy tizzy tizzy…..
(make running motion with arms),

All out glorifying busy, busy, busy……
(pat both legs with hands in time to words).

I don’t think so!
(point to yourself then with hand out flat move hand out across body in a kind of ‘NO!’ action).

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from A Rose From My Mother's Garden, released October 12, 2019
Words and tune Ruth Cooke

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Ruth Cooke UK

Wbsite: www.ruthcooke.com
Ruth has been writing and performing songs for many years now but has mostly been too busy living to record anything!
She is mostly to be found at folk clubs and festivals or at small gatherings and round campfires - although she wouldn’t say no to a small stadium!
She loves singarounds wherever they may be and is a regular floor singer at Lewes Saturday Folk Club.
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