RIC-20935 Early years Fairytales - Billy goats

Literature resources – 2
Songs, action rhymes, fingerplays and poems
Trip, trip, trap
(Tune: ‘Row, row, row your boat’)
Trip, trap, trip, trap
Across the bridge we go.
This bridge is here for us to use
‘Cos the troll has gone, you know!
Heidi had a little goat
Heidi had a little goat,
Its fleece was black and white.
All day it followed her around
And slept with her at night.
It even went to school with her;
The teacher got a fright
When it stood up on two legs
It was a funny sight.
Ten little billy goats
(Tune: ‘Ten little Indians’)
One little, two little,
Three little billy goats
Four little, five little,
Six little billy goats
Seven little, eight little,
Nine little billy goats
Ten little billy goats play.
Notes
Three billy goats
Three billy goats were talking
One fine day.
They wanted to eat some green, green grass
But a troll was in their way.
Two of them got across the bridge.
He let them past.
He waited for the bigger goat
Who was crossing over last.
The troll jumped up onto the bridge
To fight the billy goat.
But that wicked troll drowned in the river
Because he couldn’t float.
Three fat goats
(Tune: ‘Three blind mice’)
Three fat goats
Three fat goats
See how they eat.
See how they eat.
They all wanted to cross a bridge one day,
But a wicked troll was in their way.
The biggest goat quickly sent him away.
Now they’re three fatter goats.
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