Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree
| Tune: | Traditional |
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| Category: | Do As I Do |
| Link: | Performance Example |
| Notes: | "Held" (cross your arms) and "on my knee" (pat your knee) get a gesture every verse and are always spoken aloud. Sing the first verse with spreading, chestnut, and tree also spoken aloud while doing their motions. Each repeat, drop one more of those three words (spreading, then chestnut, then tree) and replace it with just the gesture - by the last verse those three are silent motions only. |
Under the spreading (arms spread out wide) chestnut (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high),
Where I held (cross your arms) you on my knee (pat your knee),
We were happy as can be,
Under the spreading (arms spread out wide) chestnut (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high).
Under the (arms spread out wide) chestnut (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high),
Where I held (cross your arms) you on my knee (pat your knee),
We were happy as can be,
Under the (arms spread out wide) chestnut (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high).
Under the (arms spread out wide) (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high),
Where I held (cross your arms) you on my knee (pat your knee),
We were happy as can be,
Under the (arms spread out wide) (touch chest with both hands) tree (reach both arms up high).
Under the (arms spread out wide) (touch chest with both hands) (reach both arms up high),
Where I held (cross your arms) you on my knee (pat your knee),
We were happy as can be,
Under the (arms spread out wide) (touch chest with both hands) (reach both arms up high).