The Sloth – Song No. 4

Hello everybody!

This week our song is The Sloth Lullaby.

The Sloth Lullaby is a duet sung by 9 year old Tallulah and Sophie.
A musical duet is when two people sing or play music together.

A lullaby is a calm and soothing song that helps you to fall asleep, when you’re tucked into your bed all cosy and snug at night.
The word sloth means lazy and slow. The different sloth species are considered very slow moving, which is why they are called sloths. This is also why the sloth is the perfect animal to sing a lullaby about, as the music will also be as slow and calm and lazy as a sloth, and can put you to sleep in no time.

     

In the film Mary Poppins, Jane and Michael who are very excited from their long and magical day with her refuse to go to bed so she sings them a magical lullaby called Stay Awake, and by the end of it they are sound asleep…

See whether The Sloth Lullaby can help you fall asleep tonight.  
Or
Try putting your little brother or sister to sleep by singing The Sloth Lullaby gently to them.

Lyrics
The sloth climbed slowly up the tree to fetch some leaves for his dinner.
La la, la la…
The sloth hung slowly upside down, that’s how he likes to swing.
La la, la la…
The baby sloth clung to his mum so tight, he mustn’t fall off.
La la, la la…
The sloth went slowly off to sleep he sleeps most of the day.
La la, la la…

 

Did you know?
Sloths are prehistoric mammals that first appeared around 60 million years ago!
Not all species of sloths are extinct, some are still alive such as the three-toed-sloth! They are leaf eaters that live on trees in the jungles of Central and South America and are related to the armadillo and anteater. It is believed that the giant sloth became extinct because of humans hunting them as well as due to climate changes.

Join us next week for the first of two scary  Extinct Animal Songs, especially for
Halloween!!!
I wonder if you can GUESS which two extinct animals are scary enough to have their own Halloween song…

 

* With help from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth

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