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Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song
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Subject: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) German & English Song From: and e Date: 04 Apr 12 - 03:39 PM Greetings, I am interested in finding more about the children's song "Baby Shark" -- called "Kleiner Hai" in German. There are numerous videos in German and English on Youtube but I haven't been able to date the song... Could you please post when & where you first learned the song?
Notes: I have been able to find a GERMAN version of this song. I am a little surprised that I can't find it mentioned on Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST Date: 18 Oct 18 - 12:04 AM I sang the song in the mid 80s at summer camp. |
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Subject: ADD: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Oct 18 - 01:49 AM I didn't find the German lyrics in a whole stack of German songbooks, but it was readily available online. ? Kleiner Hai (Dim Dim...) (feat. Alemuel) ? official lyrics KLEINER HAI Baby Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Baby Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Kleiner Hai Dim Dim DimDimDimd im Kleiner Hai Dim Dim DimDimDim dim Großer Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Großer Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Rießen Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Rießen Hai Dim Dim DimDim Dimdim Weißer Hai Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim Weißer Hai Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai Mädchen Schwimmt Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim Mädchen Schwimmt Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim Hai sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Hai sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Hai holt auf Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Hai holt auf Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen Schwimmt Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim Mädchen Schwimmt Dim Dim Dimdim Dimdim Hai holt auf Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Hai holt auf Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen sieht Dim Dim DimDim DimDim Mädchen schreit:¨ aaaahhhhh! zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai Hai frisst mjam mjam mjamjam mjamjam Hai frisst mjam mjam mjamjam mjamjam (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai (zwischenspiel) Kleiner hai, kleiner hai Source: https://www.paroles-musique.com/eng/Kleiner_Hai-Kleiner_Hai_Dim_Dim_feat_Alemuel-lyrics,p06068228 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbMkQUACykk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSwGAmVNhg I get the feeling this is NOT a traditional song....but it's fun. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 18 - 06:07 PM yes yes yes ! This is a kids' camp kind of song. When I learnt it, we were a bunch of adults on a weekend retreat for our Catholic parish. A Dominican friar led the retreat, and he taught us to act this out, in English. When we got through the whole thing, we were all gasping for breath and Father Bob said, "that was like a cardio workout. " The way he taught it to us, it has no melody or tune to speak of. It is somewhere between a chant and a rap. The rhythm is everything. Fr. Bob, the Dominican (that's O. P., not the caribbean), did the non-verbal parts as a "ba ba, ba ba, ba-ba" that sounded like bebop scatting. The more so as they become syncopated and play against the One. The original post in this thread, from 2012, has every verse the way I remember learning it, that you have three lines, where the verbal phrase is followed by the scatting, and the fourth line you just holler out that verse's bunch of words and then you get to gasp for breath between verses. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 18 - 06:43 PM Just listened to the YouTube videos linked by Joe Offer in an earlier post on this thread. For the record, Father Bob had us sing it A WHOLE LOT FASTER ... now, I sniffed around online and there is an album, "Après Ski," from 2008 or 2009 which is a European MegaMix greatest hits collection of some kind. One of them is "Kleiner Hai" and the artist is identified as "Joy Lilli," this is a name that connects to this tune and no other -- nothing else in a Google search. The record label, according to Amazon which lists the recording, is BGM Productions. The Amazon page lists sixteen songs/tracks, a different artist for each. "Kleiner Hai" is track no. 8. Here's a sample of others: Du hast den schönsten Arsch der Welt, feat. Mazz Schneewalzer - Wir sind die Meister, feat. Die wilden Buben Schunkel Walzer Medley (Kleine-Kneipe-Mix), feat. Die Inselfeger Sie liebt den DJ, feat. John Wendlow Ü 30, feat. Joe Dankel I guess that gives an idea. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 18 Oct 18 - 07:10 PM Believe it or not, the BBC has a four-and-a-half minute video report on how Kleiner Hai / Baby Shark went from Germany to Korea and is now taking over the world. I'll see if I can make a link. Baby Shark |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Oct 18 - 07:54 PM This is fun, keberoxu. I love the BBC Videso - but I like the German version best. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 19 Oct 18 - 06:02 PM As there may be readers who don't bother with even the blue clicky links to the information on the videos, here is an explanation (which will be redundant to the rest of you). Joe Offer's initial post to this thread disclosed that the "Kleiner Hai" crowdsourcing video hit had featured artist "Alemuel." If you click on the BBC's Baby Shark four-and-a-half minute news video, you will meet a German lady named Alexandra Müller or Mueller. She is the performer on the German video version of this song. "Ale-" comes from Alexandra, "-Muel" comes from Mueller. Thus, Alexandra Müller is/was "Alemuel." The BBC report is careful to suggest that, although documentation is hard to come by, the song about the sharks possibly predates "Kleiner Hai" and may have been around for some time already. But in what language, one wonders. Fräulein Müller states that she "learned" the song -- NOT that she wrote it herself. How, I wonder, would it be possible to trace this further back? Here's a thought: When I learned the song with my fellow Catholic parishioners at our weekend retreat, with the priest from the Dominican Order, the verses were somewhat different. Most pointedly, we did NOT begin with the baby of the species. So maybe the original (?) version says "Shark" in the title, but not necessarily "Baby" shark. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 19 Oct 18 - 06:11 PM In the interest of variations on this song, I'm going to summarize the lyrics on the version I learned. Not spell them out, as in earlier posts here; just supply those few words, per verse, which change each time; the rest is presumed. THE VERSION FROM THE CATHOLIC RETREAT Papa Shark! (four times, with scatting) Mama Shark! Baby Shark! Grandpa Shark! ... I forget !... something about Swimming! Saw A Shark! Swimming Faster! Shark Attack! Lost My Arm! Lost My Leg! Lost My Head! Now, I'm dead! Gone To Heaven! (well, what do you expect, from a Catholic parish ...) As to the German Kleiner Hai, it actually ends with Alexandra Müller wagging her pointing finger at the shark that just finished "fressen", stuffing itself, and chanting : Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm Böser Hai! dimm dimm dimmdimm dimmdimm Böser Hai! Which I understand to mean: Naughty Shark!! Naughty, Naughty Shark! |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 19 Oct 18 - 06:39 PM This version has been copied from an online forum at the website for the American Camp Association. that's acacamps dot org. This entry is dated January 2004, and the poster to the forum was a camper from the Northeast coastal USA. The post follows a couple of "baby shark" entries on one thread, saying: "LOL ... my camp's 'baby shark' is really violent compared to yours. The girls [at camp] love this song. It was introduced summer of 2000 and it has been sung non-stop since!" endquote You have been warned, Mudcatters. This too will be a SUMMARY without spelling out all the repetitions. The East Coast USA Girls' Camp Version There was a boy (four repetitions) and a girl they went for a walk they took off their clothes they went for a swim and all was quiet and all was still except for the SHARKS! the daddy sharks the mommy sharks the baby sharks the granny sharks and all was quiet and all was still They took off an arm the other arm and then a leg the other leg and then the head: the water was RED! and all was quiet and all was still EXCEPT FOR THE SHARKS! No, the post from which I copied this version does NOT supply the non-verbal body language, which would be interesting, I presume, on some verses ... |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 19 Oct 18 - 07:04 PM And here is a video of a quartet of young men, presumably camp counselors, performing the Baby Shark song complete with the motions. They sing it as fast as Fr. Bob the Dominican friar. Camp Counselors "Baby Shark" |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: keberoxu Date: 31 Oct 18 - 06:53 PM refresh for Halloween?? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 31 Oct 18 - 07:09 PM Now, does anybody here understand Norwegian? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 31 Oct 18 - 07:19 PM And, not to be outdone by a mere German Fräulein, two young German youths attempt the song. I wonder if they are brothers? |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 25 Dec 18 - 09:39 PM And just in time for holiday gift shopping, the Korean shark-makeover people started selling stuffed singing Baby Shark toys. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 31 Oct 19 - 05:05 PM And if all that were not enough: The United States' World Series of Baseball has just been swept by the Washington Nationals, including team member Gerardo Parra, whose walk-up song all season long has been ... yeah, you guessed it Gerardo Parra having promised, earlier this year, that if the Nats won the Series then he would get a Baby Shark Tattoo ... |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: Lighter Date: 31 Oct 19 - 09:08 PM CNN showed a video the other day of a crowd of street demonstrators in Beirut who dropped their signs and began singing "Baby Shark" to a child in an automobile they had inadvertently surrounded. The anchor commented that "Baby Shark" must be "the most popular song on earth." It's come a long way since 2012. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 20 Jul 23 - 08:26 PM HERE ARE THE WORDS TO A TOTALLY FAB SING - A - LONG SONG ! 2001, Camp Record Book, Havoc Publishing. Preview only: https://books.google.com/books?id=aKa_OA1DQj8C&q=%22baby+shark%22+song&dq=%22baby+shark%22+song&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&printsec=frontcover&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVkLn4w56AAxXPBzQIHRRWCzMQ6AF6BAg9EAI |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 06:25 PM Let's start posting early versions scavenged from the internet. Posting in reverse chronological order BABY SHARK 5 June 2002. The Book of Enthusiasm by Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership. MS-Word file. Retrieved from http://www.hoby-paeast.org/cheers2002.doc on 26 February 2008. Copy of file is in our collection. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 06:31 PM Shark song 28 October 2001. Untitled song sheet in MS-Word format. Retrieved from http://hem.passagen.se/jbsweden/songs/sharkson.doc on 26 February 2008. Copy of file is in our collection. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 06:36 PM Das Lied vom Hai 14 September 2001. Das Lied vom Hai songsheet in MS-Word format. Retrieved from http://www.vc-liederbach.de/bilders/2001/liedhai.doc on 26 February 2008. Copy of this file is in our collection. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 06:40 PM Retrieved from here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajarna Swedish: Hajarna Translation: The sharks |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 06:50 PM Baby Shark, called Hajarna in Swedish, is in the film Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie. The link below should take you to the 36 minute, 12 second mark of the movie where the two children sing the "Hajarna [Baby Shark]" song along with gestures... do, do, doo! See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qoOExaPxw&t=2172s August 29, 1997. Release date of the film. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 07:33 PM The Baby Shark song from the movie was issued on a CD in 1997 titled: Hajarna : ur filmen "Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie" / sång: Anna Sjögren & Grete Havnesköld See here: https://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/001514675 |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 21 Jul 23 - 07:39 PM Pojkaktig Orkester: Pojkaktig Sa°ngbok The "Baby Shark" song is "Hajarna". The above informations is from the link below where there are scans of the cassette cover and the cassette itself. See here: https://www.discogs.com/release/16028004-En-Pojkaktig-Orkester-Pojkaktig-S%C3%A5ngbok The Swedish wikipedia article says this recording was issued in 1996 but worldcat.org has the both the printed music and the cassette cataloged to 1997. See Pojkaktig sa°ngbok printed music: https://worldcat.org/title/938647239 And the Pojkaktig sa°ngbok cassette: https://worldcat.org/title/938647099 The Pojkaktig Orkester: Pojkaktig Sa°ngbok cassette was reissued on CD in 2016. One can listen to the songs online here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3y7bGtlAQFtrhuIQ4zXb4U The last song "Hajarna" is the jazzed up version of "Baby Shark". |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 22 Jul 23 - 11:12 AM The 2003 CD Learn & Play: Songs for Young Children by Beth and Scott Bierko has the baby shark song. Purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Beth-Scott/dp/B00009952O Scott Bierko wrote in an email dated 15 Aguust 2019: We did not write it [baby shark]. We heard it while we were setting up to do a show |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 22 Jul 23 - 05:52 PM Issued May 19th, 2000, the CD The Wide Mouth Frog by Larry N. Swenson has "Baby Shark". Listen online here: https://open.spotify.com/album/1KY7SZ6idcMtP6ZMhnYjuv |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 23 Jul 23 - 06:46 AM Here are all the snipets of "Hajarna" (Baby Shark) from the 1997 movie Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie. 1997 movie clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyhi1RTgAY As the credits are rolling, a full version of the "Hajarna" song is played. Listen above. In the movie, the song is credited: Hajarna The CD also credits the text and music of "Hajarna" to Coste Apetrea & Anders Henriksson. We have messaged Coste Apetrea with a question about the orgin of the song. See Mr Apetrea here: https://www.facebook.com/coste.apetrea.9/ |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 24 Jul 23 - 08:08 AM "Baby shark, do do do (3x)" (with clapping motion like shark's mouth August 23, 1999. Posted by "Ze Monsta" to the alt.music.nirvana usenet group. See here: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.nirvana/c/HyQGebpY89A/m/qupX1pBaebwJ |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 24 Jul 23 - 08:11 AM Well, this is a stretch, but the most fun skit at girls camp July 26, 1998. Posted by J. O'Brien Myer to the alt.religion.mormon.fellowship usenet group. See here: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.mormon.fellowship/c/wEJXtogVqIU/m/u9odaJs7vOUJ |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 24 Jul 23 - 07:22 PM Vauvahai, Vauvahai pämpäm pädämpädäm (baby shark) November 7, 1998. Posted to dk.fritid.spejder usenet group by Julie Schrøder. This is a Finnish text of "Baby Shark" that she said she got from Finnish scouting email list. See here: https://groups.google.com/g/dk.fritid.spejder/c/clXTaXLqj5Y/m/OrGaxp8x1Q4J |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 24 Jul 23 - 07:25 PM You know this. You've done this before in youth group. It's the only talent I could think of. October 17, 1998. Transcribed from the video of "Baby Shark" sung at Florida State University Homecoming dated Oct 17, 1998. Uploaded Jun 19, 2013 by jaimeelafave1906 . See video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQ2KCtBa3M |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 25 Jul 23 - 12:08 PM Embryo shark, doo-doo, doo, doo (x4) [index finger & thumb barely apart] October 12, 1997. "Baby Shark" text transcribed from the video below. Sung at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in 1997. Uploaded July 5, 2010 by VeleaGlo . See online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soOv8PPLPsI |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 11 Aug 23 - 07:44 PM The Swedish movie with "Baby Shark", Selma & Johanna : - en roadmovie, was put in several children's movie festivals internationally. In 1997 in Frankfurt, Germany it won People's Choice and Honorable Mention at the Lucas-Festival. 1998 in won People's Choice in Montreal, Canada and Peoples Choice in Seoul, South Korea (at the MoMo film festival). With the film being played at children's film festivals in Germany and Korea and popular at those festivals, this would help explain why those two countries picked up the "Baby Shark" song. Info above retrived from https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=25562 |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 07:37 PM When I staffed a summer camp here...one of my favorite action songs(well, it April 21, 1993. Posted by John Holeman to rec.scouting usenet group. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.scouting/c/gbjypNhKG_g/m/zL24kE8V5wUJ |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 08:10 PM JAWS Retrieved from elkuta.com/Joomla/images/pdf/resources/scout%20songs%20-%20words%20only.pdf on August 9, 2023. The PDF is of scans of a printed-typed songbook undated 1980s-1990s(?). Download here: http://elkuta.com/Joomla/images/pdf/resources/scout%20songs%20-%20words%20only.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 08:32 PM Jaws [2] All four variants of "baby shark" are found in the August 23, 2006 PDF Dave's Campfire Songs songbook retrieved from www.9thhuddersfieldscouts.org.uk/Scouting/Scoutcraft/Campfire/DAC's Songs.pdf on Febrary 25, 2008. [Digitally marked as created by "DA & DJ Calverley"] |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:10 AM Here is a song that we leaned from a second grader at the St. Thomas 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 |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: Thompson Date: 09 Sep 23 - 02:16 AM There was a newspaper story a few years ago about a mother and toddler caught in a traffic jam in a protest in Lebanon. She started singing Baby Shark to comfort the kid, and the people around her took it up, until finally the whole crowd was softly singing Baby Shark. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: Thompson Date: 09 Sep 23 - 02:16 AM There was a newspaper story a few years ago about a mother and toddler caught in a traffic jam in a protest in Lebanon. She started singing Baby Shark to comfort the kid, and the people around her took it up, until finally the whole crowd was softly singing Baby Shark. |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 07:37 PM When I staffed a summer camp here...one of my favorite action songs(well, it April 21, 1993. Posted by John Holeman to rec.scouting usenet group. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.scouting/c/gbjypNhKG_g/m/zL24kE8V5wUJ |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 08:10 PM JAWS Retrieved from elkuta.com/Joomla/images/pdf/resources/scout%20songs%20-%20words%20only.pdf on August 9, 2023. The PDF is of scans of a printed-typed songbook undated 1980s-1990s(?). Download here: http://elkuta.com/Joomla/images/pdf/resources/scout%20songs%20-%20words%20only.pdf |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 07 Sep 23 - 08:32 PM Jaws [2] All four variants of "baby shark" are found in the August 23, 2006 PDF Dave's Campfire Songs songbook retrieved from www.9thhuddersfieldscouts.org.uk/Scouting/Scoutcraft/Campfire/DAC's Songs.pdf on Febrary 25, 2008. [Digitally marked as created by "DA & DJ Calverley"] |
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Subject: RE: Origins: Baby Shark (Kleiner Hai ) Song From: and e Date: 08 Sep 23 - 08:10 AM Here is a song that we leaned from a second grader at the St. Thomas 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 |
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