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Scat for Singing
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2012/03/12 - 2:19pm
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My elementary english teacher taught us gibberish songs to help with singing. She would say a line and we would repeat it. She had several. So fun.

kumma lanna kumma lanna kumma lanna feesta

oh no no no not the feesta

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2012/03/16 - 9:33am
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My 5th grade friend Diane Cipperly taught me this version in about 1959:

It is call and (response):

Fi!(Fi)

Fi Fie !(fi fie)

Fi fie fo! (fi fie fo)

Fi fie fo fum! (fi fie fo fum)

Kumala! (kumala)

Vista! (vista)

Singing now:   Oh, no no, no no la vista

Eeeny meeny decimeeny oo wa ta tu wah ta meeny

X-ameeny, Zolla- meeny oo wa tu wah.

Bee biddley-ah ta gotten, bo bo ta bee ta boten .   Shhhh!

 

GREAT SONG!   Wish I was still in touch with her and could sing it now!

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2012/03/16 - 2:11pm
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48244824 said:

My 5th grade friend Diane Cipperly taught me this version in about 1959:

. . .

Eeeny meeny decimeeny oo wa ta tu wah ta meeny

In  the song  Ooh! La! Ooh! La!, by They Might Be Giants, there's a line that sounds similar:

 

Eensy beensy crumbleeny Ooh la! Ooh la! Gumbleeny

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