Hey, he wasn't smart enough to keep from going extinct, so we are just guessing. "Ack-ack" could be short and brittle noises. "Glub-glub" can be less sung and more sounding like musical gargling, not unlike that great musical gargler from Spike Jones' band, Doodles Weaver. We chose these for their humor potential, and for the fact that each name has two syllables, making it easy to insert into the rhythm of the tune.Īgain, your singers don't need to be too "polite" with their effects. Our Menagerie - To the donkey, we have added a dolphin, a magpie, and the sadly extinct dodo. Since we are using multiple verses, we have designed the arrangement so that the tail end of the verse serves as a circular transition to the next verse.
#Softly sings the donkey poem full#
The recording actually features a fairly full orchestra, recorded with a comic flair: muted brass, banjo, string effects, and lots of wacky percussion. While we provide good vocal models, you can and should let your singers go ahead and "hee-haw" with a kick. We encourage you to have your singers find even more of their "inner donkey" than you will hear on our recording.
It is probably most distinctive because the "hee-haw" sung to the dropping perfect fifth actually sounds like a donkey. The Basic Tune - The "traditional" version of this tune is what you find here as the first verse.
#Softly sings the donkey poem how to#
Not content to just do the one verse the way you may have always heard it, we have done a properly strange set of verses, and will provide you with some suggestions on how to make this a lesson in creativity for your classes. And to make it even more fun, it is a round. Some songs are just fun to sing, and this is one of them.
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