Five Green and Speckled Frogs
- Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five Green and Speckled Frogs (also recorded as "Five Speckled Frogs" and "Five Little Speckled Frogs") is a popular children's song and nursery rhyme sung in many daycare centers. It is also often sung to babies when they are learning how to swim, in "parent and tot" swim classes. In this context it is usuallyFact|date=February 2008 sung as the children first enter the pool, and the number "five" is adjusted to match the number of children in the swim class.
Lyrics and chords
C Five Green and Speckled Frogs
F sat on a speckled log
C G Eating some most delicious bugs. Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm...yuuummm!
C One jumped into the pool,
F where it was nice and cool.
C G C F C Then there were four green speckled frogs, glub glub.
The letter (C or F) indicates the chord sounded for the entire line of text, if accompanying the singing with a suitable musical instrument.
Non-harmonic portions of the song
In many versions of the song, the words "yum-yum" are:
*sung as chirps, most often as downchirps (i.e. as two chirps that are each descending in pitch, one chirp for each "yum");
*spoken or yelled as non-harmonic content;
*sung deliberately off-key.
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