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Lyr ADD: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider

13 Aug 99 - 07:36 AM (#104638)
Subject: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Heather@ragdoll.co.uk

I'm looking for a version of Itsy Bitsy Spider/Eensy Weensy Spider in the Public Domain.(ie out of copyright)

Can anyone help?


13 Aug 99 - 08:47 AM (#104650)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Jeri

ITSY BITSY SPIDER

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
The sun came out and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again


13 Aug 99 - 03:35 PM (#104792)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: amo

In Germany we sing:

Imselbimsel-Spinne wie lang Dein Faden ist -
Fiel der Regen runter und der Faden riß -
Kommt die liebe Sonne, schleckt den Regen auf -
Imselbimsel-Spinne klettert wieder rauf.

If you sing this with children, there are nice little gestures following the text.


13 Aug 99 - 04:18 PM (#104799)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Bert

Hey guys! you just gotta run this through the translator


13 Aug 99 - 10:27 PM (#104896)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Jon F

Eensy Wincy spider climbed up a brussel sprout
Along came the chef and he washed poor Wincy out
He then pulled out the plug and he washed the sink again
And poor old Eensy Wicny had a journey down the drain


13 Aug 99 - 10:34 PM (#104900)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Susan A-R

Now when Dick G and Susan of DT were in my kitchen, they talked about a rendition of this one to the Mary Ellen Carter. Something to the effect of

Rise again rise again no matter if your legs they be two four six eight or ten . . .

Somehow I think it may be in the database, ahlthough I havent checked and am not a mistress of blue clidkey things. I don't know, are parodies generally copywritten??

Susan A-R


13 Aug 99 - 10:39 PM (#104902)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Susan A-R

Yep, it's there. I typed in Spider under search and came up with it. It's the second eensey weensey listing. What fun!! Also found my friend Dick MaCormac's rendition of little boxes, a very seventies version, in there. My I'm amazed at what lurks in the cobwebs of this database.

Susan A-R


13 Aug 99 - 11:22 PM (#104915)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Barbara

La aran(~)a pequenita subio, subio, subio
Caje la lluvia, y todo le llevo
....... el sol y .......?
Y la arana pequenita subio, subio, subio.

Memory like a sieve, thats me.
Blessings
Barbara


13 Aug 99 - 11:26 PM (#104917)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Barbara

Translation program won't do it without the right accents, what I don't know how to do... and I bet it's 'lavo' as in wash. (accent over the 'o').


13 Aug 99 - 11:31 PM (#104919)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Susan A-R

Isn't there also some spanish song about an elephant trying to dance on a spider's web? I'll have to track down my friend Jill and ask about that one.

Susan A-R


14 Aug 99 - 02:08 AM (#104958)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: alison

Hi,

It was Incy Wincy spider when I learned it...

slainte

alison


14 Aug 99 - 05:47 PM (#105077)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Roger in Baltimore

Alison,

That's the gaelic translation of course.

What a charm this one is. So many songs and so little time!

Big RiB


14 Aug 99 - 06:02 PM (#105080)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: digger@elevator-bbs.com

There is a Spanish nursery rhyme which uses a similar tune to Eensey Weensey Spider:

Habia una vez un gatico chiquico
Habia una vez un gatico chiquico
Que no podia que no podia
Caminar

Pasaron dos o tres, cuatro semanas
Pasaron dos o tres, cuatro semanas
Y no podia y no podia

Y si la historia no les parece jarta
Y si la historia no les parece jarta
Y si la historia no les parece jarta
Se la volvemos se la volvemos a contar!

(I learned it from a Colombian friend Margarita from Cucuta, the hottest city in northern Colombia. Sorry I couldn't find the accent marks for "podia". Also "jarta" should be "harta" in regular Spanish, but Margarita sang it as jarta).

David Shea
Turners Falls, Massachusetts


17 Jun 08 - 02:54 PM (#2368045)
Subject: Video: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider (parody)
From: Genie

Here's a video of the Bob Blue Mary Ellen Carter parody version of Eensy Weensy Spider.


18 Jun 08 - 08:23 AM (#2368689)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: GUEST,HSA

I have the elephant on the spider's web as a French one.


Un éléphant que se balancait
Sur une étoile araignée
Il trouve ce si interessant
Qu'il allait chercher un autre elephant


So it's a bit like 10 Green Bottles. Next verse 2 elephants on the spider's web etc. Daft or what!!!

Helen


24 Feb 10 - 10:08 PM (#2849448)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: GUEST,joecool

Anyone have a chinese version to the itsy bitsy spider song?


24 Feb 10 - 10:10 PM (#2849450)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: GUEST,999

Chinese version here.


24 Feb 10 - 10:22 PM (#2849465)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: NightWing

Re the elephants: I learned this in church camp as a kid:

One elephant came out to play
On a spider's web one day
He had such enormous fun
That he called for another elephant to come.

Then it goes on to two elephants and so one.

(I'll post the tune if anyone's interested)

At the end of the first verse, the song leader would pick someone from the campfire circle to be the second elephant and they would make an "elephant chain": the leader with one arm held out like an elephant's trunk and the other between his legs as a tail, which the second elephant would grasp with HIS "trunk".

At the end of each verse the last elephant got to choose a new elephant to join the line and the elephant chain would slowly make its way through the campfire circle, growing all the time. We could usually make it last through 8-10 elephants before it got boring.

BB,
NightWing


25 Feb 10 - 04:56 PM (#2850202)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Paul Burke

Incy Wincy Spider lived in a shoe,
Down came the rain and she didn't know what to do,
Out came the sunshine without any bread,
So Incy Wincy Spider sent them all to bed.

Incy Wincy Spider, a pocket full of rye,
Down came the rain, baked in a pie,
Out came the sunshine, and one for the dame,
So Incy Wincy Spider lives down the lane.

Try it with Ten Green Bottles....


25 Feb 10 - 05:46 PM (#2850260)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Seayaker

You could always look on his website


25 Feb 10 - 06:07 PM (#2850276)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Joe_F

http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6223


25 Feb 10 - 06:14 PM (#2850281)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Joe Offer

Grooooooan!
I think you need to apologize for that, Seayaker.
Quick! Somebody open a window!

-Joe-


25 Feb 10 - 06:52 PM (#2850302)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Seayaker

I'm just surprised nobody came up with it before


26 Mar 10 - 04:54 PM (#2872786)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Genie

There's an Eensy Weensy Spider song that's a parody of The Mary Ellen Carter. I'm trying to find it but a DT/Forum search yielded nothing, either for Eensy Weensy Spider or Itsy Bitsy Spider except for the old children's song.


26 Mar 10 - 05:54 PM (#2872831)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Joe_F

Genie: I gave a link to it 3 entries upthread of yours.


31 Mar 10 - 03:32 PM (#2876747)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: Genie

Ah, but your post didn't identify what the link was to. : )

Eensy Weensy Spider (parody of Mary Ellen Carter by Bob Blue & Tom Smith(


25 Aug 10 - 10:09 AM (#2972537)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: GUEST,Gaby

Learnt this version when I was teaching at a nursery

Eensy Weensy Spider climbed up water spout,
Down came the rain and washed the spider out,
Out came the sun and dried up all the water
so Eensy Weensy Spider had to climb again...

I especially liked singing this with the hand gestures. It really had the children's attention


25 Aug 10 - 10:33 AM (#2972546)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: EBarnacle

When I was in Denmark, back in the '78, I was given a local poem and told it was to the melody of "Lille Peder Adderkop," which turned out to be our own "Eensy Weensy Spider." For one who had run across the word Adderkop in "The Hobbit" and never before, it opened up new ideas.


05 Dec 12 - 01:49 AM (#3447249)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Itsy Bitsy/Eensy Weensy Spider
From: GUEST

Tagalog/Filipino version:

Maliliit na gagamba
umakyat sa sanga
dumating ang ulan
tinangay siya
lumabas ang araw
natuyo ang sanga
maliliit na gagamba
lahat ay masaya