SEA SONGS TO SING

Songs about Fish:

Three Puffer Fish (Tune: Three Blind Mice)

Three puffer fish,
Three puffer fish,
See how they swim,
See how they swim,
Their tails go left and
Their tails go right,
Their gills breathe in and
Their gills breathe out,
Did you ever see such a prickly sight as
Three puffer fish?

Change the name of the fish and change the "prickly" to a fitting adjective. For example, 3 rainbow fish would be "Did you ever see such a "colourful" sight as three rainbow fish?

TWO RAINBOW FISH (SUNG TO THREE BLIND MICE)

Two rainbow fish,
Two rainbow fish,
See how they swim,
See how they swim?
Their tails go left and their tails go right,
Their beautiful colours are quite a sight,
Did you ever see such a sight so bright
As two rainbow fish?

Did You Ever See A Fishy? (Tune: Did You Ever See A Lassie?)

Did you ever see a fishy,
A fishy, a fishy?
Did you ever see a fishy
Swim this way and that?
Swim this way and that way
And that way and this way?
Did you ever see a fishy
Swim this way and that?

Repeat the song replacing "swim" with other verbs such as: slide, swish, and splash.

 

I'm a Little Fish (Tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little fish in the ocean so blue,
There are so many things that I can do;
I can swim around with my tail and fin.
The water's fine just jump right in.

 

Six Little Fish (Tune: Six Little Ducks)

Six little fish that I once knew,
Fat ones, skinny ones, fair ones, too.
But the one little fish who was the leader of the crowd.
He led the other fish around and around.

 

Colour Fish Song (Tune: Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush)

I saw a fish go swimming by, go swimming by, go swimming by.
I saw a fish go swimming by, so early in the morning.

(Colour and cut out several fish patterns. Tape the fish around the classroom so the students can see them. Change the lyrics to the song to reflect the fish around the classroom.)

I saw a fish that was green and blue, green and blue, green and blue.
I saw a fish that was green and blue, so early in the morning.

 

FIVE LITTLE FISHES

Five little fishes
Swimming in the sea
Teasing Mr. Shark
You can't catch me
Along comes Mr. Shark
As quiet as can be...
SNAP!
Four little fishes
Swimming in the sea
(continue until there are no fish left
No little fishes swimming in the sea.)

FISH ALIVE

 

1,2,3,4,5, I caught a fish alive
6,7,8,9,10, I threw him back again
Why did you let him go>
Because he bit my finger so
Which one did he bite?
The little one on the right!

 

 

From ‘Exploring the Lough: Creative Activities for the Primary School Classroom’

Complied & Written by Molly Freeman, Edited by Adrian Rice