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Tiny Kim
(Traditional. Adapted by Paola Ferate-Soto.)
I had a little froggie, (Make a fist to represent a frog)
I named her Tiny Kim.
I put her in the bathtub, (Pretend you are setting her down)
To see if she could swim (Make swimming motion with arms)
She drank up all the water (Raise your head up and pretend you are swallowing water)
She ate up all the soap (Make munching motions)
And after that she didn’t like
To take baths any more. (Make a face and hold your stomach as if you are sick)
Las siete vidas del gato
(By Rafael Pombo. Public domain. According to Latin American tradition, the cat has
seven lives, rather than the nines lives that are attributed to this animal in the United
States.)
Preguntó al gato Mambrú
el lebrel Perdonavidas:
Pariente de Micifú
“¿Qué secreto tienes tú
para vivir siete vidas?”
Y Mambrú le contestó:
“Mi secreto es muy sencillo,
pues no consiste sinó
en frecuentar como yo
el aseo y el cepillo.”
The Cat’s Seven Lives
(English translation by Paola Ferate-Soto.)
The hound Forgiver-of-lives
Had an important question for Mambru the cat,
Relation of Micifu:
“What secret do you have
To live seven lives?”
And Mambru replied this way:
“My secret is very simple
Since it only consists of
Being close friends with
Washing and brushing.”
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