Proceedings, Oxford, UK (2002) - World Federation of Music Therapy

Goes up and down the branch
Slips and falls on the ground
One monkey, two monkeys
Three monkeys, a bunch
Hairy and roly poly
Jumps so much, jesting
Little monkey, my pal
Little pal, great friend.
In this lyric Bob used lively monkeys in permanent movement describing
a friendship in a happy combination of words and rhymes (in
Portuguese). Camara Cascudo wrote that Brazilian monkey’s tales have
Afrikan origin and they appear in funny stories performing delightful
roles (Camara Cascudo,1972,p.527).
Nature was a recurrent theme where the environmental images and
sounds occupied an important space. There is a song from the Brazilian
traditional repertoire which became a kind of a refrain during a long time
of the treatment. Its name: “Hurrah for the Sun”.
Hurrah for the sun
The sun of our earth
It rises now
From behind the mountains
We always could see the sun from the window and Bob welcomed and
received it in his personal space with happiness. According to Camara
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