Music+Narrative


 * __Music Narrative__: ** "What is a music narrative?" A music narrative is any song that tells a story.



== We love music in our classroom, but the students seem to adore music that tells a story! Every day we have fun with music together, whether it's singing a song, playing games, or playing instruments; we are always learning. For the end of the year concert, I let the children vote on a song they wanted to perform for their friends and family. They were so excited that this was the winner. I should have known they would all agree on a song about pirates. It seems to be the student's favorite thing this year. :) ==



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__LYRICS__: [|Blackbeard][|, Bluebeard and][|Redbeard] Performed by: Eric Herman and the Invisible Band Album: Monkey Business Website: [|Erichermanmusic.com]

Blackbeard and Bluebeard and Redbeard, they say Hijacked a ship and went sailing away Seaward they scudded and skipped on the breeze But couldn't find treasure to plunder and seize And a pirate without treasure is like a monkey without a spatula... <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">So Bluebeard said, "Since we've nothing to do <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Why don't we paint our new pirate ship blue? <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Blue for the poop deck. Blue for the sails <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Blue for the rudder, the riggings and the rails." <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">And he sang, "Yo ho ho, let's paint the ship blue <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">No other color's as trusty and true <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">As sure as I sail by the Northern star, <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">blue's the most beautiful color. Arrrr! <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Redbeard spoke up, saying, "Aye, but instead <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Wouldn't ye rather we painted her red? <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Red for the cannons and the sodey-pop kegs <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Red for our eye-patches, parrots and pegs." <span style="color: #0e53be; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Parrot) Rawk! Pegleg. <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">And he sang, "Yo ho ho, nothing's quite like red <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">It's fearsome and fiery and fills men with dread <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">As sure as I sail by the Northern star, <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">red's the most radiant color. Arrr!" <span style="color: #ffbf00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">"Blackbeard said, "Blimey! You're both off the track. <span style="color: #ffbf00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Let's paint it something more handsome, like black." <span style="color: #ffbf00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">"Blue!" shouted Bluebeard, and Redbeard yelled, "Red!" <span style="color: #ffbf00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Blackbeard said, "Black! Are you cracked in the head?" <span style="color: #f68331; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">And he sang, "Yo ho ho, give me deep, dark black <span style="color: #f68331; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">from starboard to port, fromthe front to the back. <span style="color: #f68331; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">As sure as I sail by the Northern star, <span style="color: #f68331; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">black's a spectacular color. Arrr!" <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Redbeard grabbed brushes and buckets and paints <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Over his shipmates insistent complaints. <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Rather than letting him paint the ship red, <span style="color: #dd1d1d; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">They got some blue paint and black paint instead. <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Swiftly the three of them painted their boat, <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">each a completely dissimilar coat, <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Making a color not red, black or blue; <span style="color: #f62cb2; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Mixing, instead, an entirely new hue. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">That was the last that was seen of the three <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Simply because they refused to agree. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">They weren't torpedoed or shelled or harpooned. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">They just disappeared, for their ship was marooned. <span style="color: #0e53be; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">And sometimes on a foggy night at sea, <span style="color: #0e53be; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">you can still hear them singin'... <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">"Yo ho ho and a bottle of pop <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">painted our ship from the bottom to the top. <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">As sure as we sail by the Northern star. <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Bluebeard) Blue's the most beautiful... <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Redbeard) No! Red's the most radiant! <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Blackbeard) What? Black's the most spectacular color! <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Parrot) Rawk. How about yellow? <span style="color: #32ae32; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">(Blackbeard, Bluebeard and Redbeard) Arrrr!" <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">(c) 2004 Words by Kenn Nesbitt with Eric Endres <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;">Music by Eric and Roseann Endres