For a simple, little song, this one is surprisingly hard to describe. So, the words that change with each verse and are sung, are green, and those that are spoken are purple. Words that are the same for every verse are the normal colour.
This is an adaptation of the song that works something like “pass the parcel”. You start with a bag containing about six things found on a farm. Mostly these will be farm animals, but you can include a tractor (chug, chug, chug), or anything else that has a particular resonance with your children’s own farm experience. I like to put in a hedgehog (snuffle, snuffle, snuffle) and my son adores pigs, so, with us, one of those always goes in, too. You could be more inventive; there are ostrich farms, for example. Shorter sounds work best repeated three times, longer ones just the once. But whatever you, this is a song to have some fun with.
Set the bag on its way round.
We’re on the way. We’re on the way, on the way to Grandpa’s Farm x2
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a great big…
Whoever has the bag at this point, opens it up, takes something out, and you make an appropriate sound…
…PIG
Pigs, pigs, they make a sound like this:
Oink, oink, oink.
Pigs, pigs, they make a sound like this:
Oink, oink, oink.
We’re on the way…
And off it goes again until the bag is empty, when you can sing the first line twice over to finish. I have also finished with:
Down on Grandpa’s farm there is a great big NOISE.
When everyone chooses their own noise and does it together.