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What Shall We Do with the Grumpy Pirate?

Song type: Actions, Active, Tickling
Language: English
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Children, Pre-school, Toddler
Topics: Bookbug

How to use this song with babies

On ‘Hooray and up she rises’, lift your baby up high.

How to use this song with toddlers

Sing the song and do the actions – children will love to copy you and join in. Dance a little jig, walk the plank with your arms out to the side, give each other a big tickle. When you sing the chorus (‘Hooray and up….’), try lifting your child up or you could raise both hands up and over your head.

How to use this song with 3 to 5-year olds

When you sing the chorus (‘Hooray and up….’), encourage your child or children to pull on an imaginary rope, as if raising the anchor or putting up the sails on a boat.

What Shall We Do with the Grumpy Pirate? lyrics

What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?

What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?

What shall we do with the grumpy pirate?

Early in the morning.

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Early in the morning.

Do a little jig and make him smile,

Do a little jig and make him smile,

Do a little jig and make him smile,

Early in the morning.

Make him walk the plank til he starts to wobble,

Make him walk the plank til he starts to wobble,

Make him walk the plank til he starts to wobble,

Early in the morning.

Tickle him til he starts to giggle,

Tickle him til he starts to giggle,

Tickle him til he starts to giggle,

Early in the morning.

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Ooh-ray and up she rises

Early in the morning.