FIRST SONGS: with D chord

That's right - here are some songs children love that you can play already!

[a] I HEAR THUNDER [The first note of the song is played by the 3rd finger of the chord]     
Each dash / means a strum down the strings. It is a regular beat - like clapping, as the guitar is being used as a rhythm instrument like a drum, rather than for playing the tune...

1 - 2 - 3 - 4               ( / = strum down)
/   /      /       /       /    /       /    /
I hear thun-der, I hear thunder
/           /      /      /      /       /         /        /                   - Remember to strum the
Hark, don't you? - Hark, don't you?                         last beat of each line!
  /       /          /         /         /         /         /       /
Pitter patter rain drops, pitter patter rain drops
/       /       /       /       /     /       /       /
I'm wet through -, I'm wet through! -

[this song is also known as FRÈRE JACQUES and ARE YOU SLEEPING]

[b] ROW YOUR BOAT
/         /         /              /       /           /               /         /
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream -
/             /             /             /           /         /         /       /
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream -

[c] KOOKABURRA [First note of the song is finger 1]
/           /           /     /         /     /       /       /
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree -
/           /           /       /         /           /     /     /
merry, merry king of the woods is he -   -
/     /     /           /       /         /      /     /
laugh - kookaburra laugh -     -     -
/           /         /     /        /    /         /     /     /    /    /     /
kookaburra fine your life must be   -     -    -   -   -
[Now strum the first beat strongly, then the next beat quietly - - to give some variety to your rhythm. 1 - 2, 1 - 2, / ' / ']
/           '           /    '           /     '       /     '
Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree
/           '           /        '     /     '       /     '
eating all the gum nuts he can see
/       ’   /       '         /       '       /       '
stop! kookaburra stop!
/           '         /         '         /       '     /     '     /     ‘     /     ‘     /    ‘
kookaburra leave some nuts for me

(These songs are rounds, the next singer starts first line again, as first singer reaches line 2)

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