[Listen] [PDF] [MusicXML] Emilie Poulsson. Cornelia C. Roeske. music 1. Good Mother Hen sits here on her nest,
Keeps the eggs warm beneath her soft breast,
Waiting, waiting, day after day. | 2. Hark! there’s a sound she knows very well:
Some little chickens breaking the shell,
Pecking, pecking, pecking away. | 3. Now they’re all out, oh, see what a crowd!
Good Mother Hen is happy and proud,
Cluck-cluck, cluck-cluck, clucking away. | 4. Into the coop the mother must go;
While all the chickens run to and fro,
Peep-peep, peep-peep, peeping away. | 5. Here is some corn in my little dish;
Eat, Mother Hen, eat all that you wish.
Picking, picking, picking away. | 6. Happy we’ll be to see you again,
Dear little chicks and good Mother Hen!
Now good-bye, good-bye for to-day. |
IV. THE LITTLE PLANT
IV.—THE LITTLE PLANT. In my little garden bed
Raked so nicely over,
First the tiny seeds I sow,
Then with soft earth cover. Shining down, the great round sun
Smiles upon it often;
Little raindrops, pattering down,
Help the seeds to soften.
Then the little plant awakes!
Down the roots go creeping.
Up it lifts its little head
Through the brown mould peeping. High and higher still it grows
Through the summer hours,
Till some happy day the buds
Open into flowers.
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