Saturday 9 March 2013

Children of God

I'll be singing this again tomorrow morning, so I may as well put it here while I have it up on my screen.  As silly songs go, it's on the sillier side of daft.  Needless to say, the various animals have various actions/dance moves.  It goes to the tune of 'If I were a Butterfly' which I thought everybody would know when I wrote the lyrics two years ago, but sadly, that particular ohrwurm from my childhood seems to be less ubiquitous now.  I suppose it's also copyrighted, so...what can I say?  You'll have to make up your own tune.  This does in fact have an original tune as well, but it was written by my colleague Chip, and I don't have a way of reproducing it here.


Children of God
To the tune of 'If I were a Butterfly'


A mother hen's children are lucky things
She keeps them safe beneath her wings
And a kangaroo's kids have a comfy couch,
They get to ride inside her pouch,
And hyena babies have a laugh, it's true,
But they're not as lucky as me or you,
'Cos we all get to be called the children of God.

God really loves us, like a mum or a dad,
When we're happy or sad, if we're good or we're bad,
We still get to be called the children of God!

A koala mum is never slack,
She carries her children on her back,
Baby birds eat the juiciest bugs
And I bet mummy bears give the very best hugs,
But all the same, I'm glad I'm me,
Because it says in 1 John 3
That we all get to be called the children of God.

God really loves us, like a mum or a dad,
When we're happy or sad, if we're good or we're bad,
We still get to be called the children of God!

2 comments:

  1. What a fun song for Mothering Sunday. Would love to be with our children tomorrow, but we're spread far apart.

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  2. Fun. :)
    Trouble is, if I start singing it to the tune of If I were... in my head, it starts turning into Peter and the Wolf. I am not sure how to stop this.

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