The Button Box
Discovering Joy: The Magical Button Box Tale by Starshine Singers
Lyrics
Grandad, oh Grandad,
Addressing Grandad affectionately, seeking activities for the day.
What can we do today?
Expressing boredom due to rain and fatigue, asking for suggestions.
It’s raining, we’re tired.
Expressing the lack of ideas for games or play.
We don’t know what to play.
Emphasizing the array of available activities.
There’s all kinds of things for you to do.
Listing various options for games and creative activities.
There’s games and there’s paints and…
Reiterating the availability of games and painting.
I’m bored!
Repeating the feeling of boredom despite options.
Snakes and ladders, Ludo or things to glue –
Suggesting classic games like Snakes and Ladders or Ludo, and crafts like gluing things.
There’s dollies and jigsaws –
Listing more options such as dolls and jigsaw puzzles.
I’m bored!
Reiterating the feeling of boredom despite the options mentioned.
Granny, a story!
Requesting a story from Granny.
Tell me a story do!
Asking for a storytelling session from Granny.
Tell me a tale from the Button Box
Asking for a tale related to the Button Box.
And I’ll be a good girl,
Promising good behavior in exchange for the story.
I’ll be so good for you!
Committing to behave well in anticipation of the story.
All right then, I’ll help you find:
Grandmother agreeing to tell a story from the Button Box.
Magic in the button box,
Describing the Button Box metaphorically as a source of magic, sunshine, laughter, wonder, and stories that can lift spirits and take listeners on imaginative journeys.
Sunshine in the button box,
-Laughter in the button box
-It’s full of wonder!
-Tell us what the buttons say!
-Lift us from a dreary day!
-Take us somewhere far away -
-We wanna go there!
Highlighting the power of stories to weave a tapestry of family history and urging the opening of the Button Box to reveal these stories.
Stories make a tapestry
-Telling fam’ly history.
-Open up the button box and
-let the stories unfold.
-Magic in the button box,
Reiterating the themes of magic, sunshine, laughter, wonder, and the importance of stories in family history through repetition.
Sunshine in the button box,
-Laughter in the button box
-It’s full of wonder!
-Tell us what the buttons say!
-Lift us from a dreary day!
-Take us somewhere far away -
-We wanna go there!
-Stories make a tapestry
-Telling fam’ly history.
-Open up the button box and
-let the stories unfold.
-Sunshine in the button box,
Re-emphasizing the elements of sunshine and laughter within the Button Box and the unfolding of stories.
Laughter in the button box,
-Let the stories unfold!
Encouraging the unfolding or sharing of stories contained within the Button Box.
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