Five Green and Speckled Frogs
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Five Green and Speckled Frogs (also recorded as "Five Speckled Frogs" and "Five Little Speckled Frogs") is a popular children's song and nursery rhyme
sung in many daycare centers. It is also often sung to babies when they are learning how to swim, in "parent and tot" swim classes. In this context it is usually sung as the children first enter the pool, and the number "five" is adjusted to match the number of children in the swim class.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
F
sat on a speckled log
C G
Eating some most delicious bugs. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm...yuuummm!
C
One jumped into the pool,
F
where it was nice and cool.
C G C F C
Then there were four green speckled frogs, glub glub.
The letter (C or F) indicates the chord sounded for the entire line of text, if accompanying the singing with a suitable musical instrument.
Nursery rhyme
The term nursery rhyme is used for "traditional" poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’ is still often used.-Lullabies:...
sung in many daycare centers. It is also often sung to babies when they are learning how to swim, in "parent and tot" swim classes. In this context it is usually sung as the children first enter the pool, and the number "five" is adjusted to match the number of children in the swim class.
Lyrics and chords
CFive Green and Speckled Frogs
F
sat on a speckled log
C G
Eating some most delicious bugs. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm...yuuummm!
C
One jumped into the pool,
F
where it was nice and cool.
C G C F C
Then there were four green speckled frogs, glub glub.
The letter (C or F) indicates the chord sounded for the entire line of text, if accompanying the singing with a suitable musical instrument.
Non-harmonic portions of the song
In many versions of the song, the words "yum-yum" are:- sung as chirps, most often as downchirps (i.e. as two chirps that are each descending in pitch, one chirp for each "yum");
- spoken or yelled as non-harmonicHarmonicA harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency, i.e. if the fundamental frequency is f, the harmonics have frequencies 2f, 3f, 4f, . . . etc. The harmonics have the property that they are all periodic at the fundamental...
content; - sung deliberately off-keyOff-keyOff-key is a term often used to denote musical content that is not at the expected frequency or pitch period, either with respect to some absolute reference frequency, or in a ratiometric sense Off-key is a term often used to denote musical content that is not at the expected frequency or pitch...
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