Storytime - Cowboys

Books:

The Great Texas Hamster Drive, Eric A Kimmel

Cowboy Bunnies, Christine Loomis

Cowboy and Octopus, Jon Scieszka

There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant, Helen Ketteman

Songs:

I’ve Been Working on the Rail Road

I've been working on the railroad

All the live-long day.

I've been working on the railroad

Just to pass the time away.

Can't you hear the whistle blowing,

Rise up so early in the morn;

Can't you hear the captain shouting,

"Dinah, blow your horn!"

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Someone's in the kitchen I know

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Strummin' on the old banjo!

Singin' fee, fie, fiddly-i-o

Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o-o-o-o

Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o

Strummin' on the old banjo.

Home on the Range

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Chorus

Home, home on the range,

Where the deer and the antelope play;

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,

The breezes so balmy and light,

That I would not exchange my home on the range

For all of the cities so bright.

Merry-Go-Round

            Merry-go-round,

            Merry-go-round,

            Around, and around, and around

            Merry-go-round,

            Merry-go-round,

            Around, and around, and around

            The horses go up,

            And then they go down,

            Around, and around, and around

            The horses go up,

            And then they go down,

            Around, and around, and around

            Dizzy go ‘round

            Dizzy go ‘round

            Around, and around, and around

            Dizzy go ‘round

            Dizzy go ‘round

            Around, and around, and around

            I ride the horse up,

            And ride the horse down,

            Around, and around, and around

            I ride the horse up,

            And ride the horse down,

            Around, and around, and around

Movement/Finger Pays:

I’m a Little Cowpoke

(sung to: I'm A Little Teapot)

I'm a littlecowpoke. Here's my hat.

(point to self and tip hat)
Here are my spurs

(point to heels)
and here are my chaps.

(pat legs)
AS soon as I wake up,

(pretend to stretch)
I work all day,

(pretend to lasso a cow)
I get on my horse

(pretend to get on a horse)
and gallop away

(galloping motion).