[a] I HEAR THUNDER [The first note of the song is played by the 3rd finger of the chord]
[this song is also known as FRÈRE JACQUES and ARE YOU SLEEPING]
[b] ROW YOUR BOAT
[c] KOOKABURRA [First note of the song is finger 1]
(These songs are rounds, the next singer starts first line again, as first singer reaches line 2)
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! -
/ / / / / / / /
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream -
/ / / / / / / /
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream -
/ / / / / / / /
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