Songs In My Head and a Froggy Tutorial

Galumph went the little green frog one day,
Galumph went the little green frog.
Galumph went the little green frog one day,
And the frog went glumph, glumph, glumph.

But we all know frogs go,
La di dah de dah,
La di dah de dah,
La di dah de dah,
We all know frogs go,
La di dah de dah,
They don’t go glumph, glumph, glumph.

(Just one of the many interpretations of ‘Der Glumph’).

Siiiigh. When the lovely Melanie from M* innocently left a singalong comment on my last post, I knew I was in for it. There has been nary a waking moment since, when I haven’t had the above rattling about inside my head, or out and proud in the shower, the car, while making dinner, at the dinner table, etc, etcetera. It’s a catchy tune that has stayed with me for days on end before. The kids also caught the bug. Just when I thought I’d finally moved on to a half-decent Johnny Cash-style rendition of The Gambler, a kid would appear humming galumphs.

Enough.

Here’s the promised Hot Frog pattern and tutorial. Click here or go and pootle over via the sidebar there.

Or pop over here for the Playschool, Benita Collings and Noni Hazelhurst version of ‘Galumph’. At your peril.

In which case, you’ll be needing to hang out with Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers and The Gambler when you get “too tired to sleep” (because there’s nothing pretty about ‘Galumph’ in your head at three in the morning as you lay staring into the dark).