Here is a song that we leaned from a second grader at the St. Thomas
School in West Hempstead, New York (see Figure 1). As with many camp
songs before it, it deals with a new folk hero -- only this folk hero, so to speak,
is a movie villain. And, as with many folk stories, its basis is in literature that
is not anonymous. Do any of your students know it? Can they figure out
which gestures to use?

JAWS

[music]

Speak:
Here's a story   du du, du du du    repeat
About jaws    du du, du du du    repeat
Baby jaws    du du, du du du    repeat
Giant jaws    du du, du du du    repeat
Lady swimmin'    du du, du du du    repeat
Spies the lady    du du, du du du    repeat
Shark ahead    du du, du du du    repeat
Pass the salt    du du, du du du    repeat
And the pepper    du du, du du du    repeat
Mmm good    du du, du du du    repeat
Swims away    du du, du du du    repeat
That's the story    du du, du du du    repeat
About jaws      du du, du du du    repeat

We've omitted some of the lyrics in this song that are risque. Do your
students know them? For obvious reasons, don't let them sing the spicier
lyrics in class; just mention that you know of their existence and see if
you get any snickers or chuckles.

1981, pg 18, Making music fun : a complete collection of games, puzzles,
and activities for the elementary classroom by Marvin Stanley Adler.


See online here: https://archive.org/details/makingmusicfunco0000adle/page/18/mode/1up?q=jaws