'Smartest Giant' question

[misshardbroom]

So when you read 'The Smartest Giant in Town' to your DCs, what tune do you use to sing George's song ('my tie is a scarf for a cold giraffe' etc.)??

Or do you cop out and just say the words?

We (my Sunday School teacher colleagues) and I acted this out for our Sunday School at their Christmas party. My DH was the giant.

We made up a tune, and wrote the music down for it.

I think if I was reading it as a story, I would make up a tune.

Boys and girls come out to play.

Bump. I want to read other people's answers.

i just made up a tune, which by some coincidence is not dissimilar to the julia donaldson one although mine has a better refrain.
the reason i know this is that i FOOLISHLY boutght a couple of cds of hers for car journeys and have been driven demented by her quavery old lady vocals and shite tunes ever since.

ROFL at H20.

Do you, perchance, mean the one that goes 'It's the Gruffaloooooo, Gruffaloooo, Gruffaloooooooooooo'??

I just say it, and DS joins in at the end with "TOWN!"

Am intrigued to know what tunes other people use though.

oh GOD we have two of them, it's absolute TORTURE, like an ancient auntie let loose on a bontempi TRILLING away in your ears. dd loves it.

I made up a tune - which would be fine, except each time I read it, I can't remember the exact tune I made up....so I just sort of 'jam' it. This meets with the disapproval of dd - 'no mummy, not like that. Sing the proper song!'

I CANT REMEMBER love - just be grateful I'm making the fecking effort!

when I sing it, it is like something out of Jeeves & Wooster. Imagine Stephen Fry reading it and singing the song, and you're about there.

This is my least favourite Julia Donaldson book, because 'Giraffe' and 'Scarf' don't rhyme in my accent. It sounds all wrong if I try to make them rhyme too.

Misshardbroom - our version is rather noel cowrd/ivor novello too

'Tis a Farquhar original though, rather than using an old tune. Apparently Daddy can't sing it properly, so I always get lumbered with it.

a valid point, Botbot.

Come to think of it, isn't Julia Donaldson from Scotland? So surely in her accent, 'giraffe' doesn't rhyme with 'scarf' either.

Oh, I HATED reading that book - I had to make up a tune, and the bloody rhyme doesn't scan properly - it's hard to read or sing.

correction, Donaldson-watchers, she's a Londoner.