Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 7/16/2006 1:34:00 PM Author: Susannah Subject: Echo song--Goat I have a fond memory of this song as it was sung by so many of us on the school bus back in the early 1970s. Our version was very different from the ones listed earlier on this site. It went like this... There was a boy (echo) By the name of Billy Joe (echo) He had a goat (echo) That he called his own (echo) One day that goat (echo) Wasn't feeling very fine (echo) He ate ten shirts (echo) Right off the line (echo) Once Billy found out (echo) What the goat had done (echo) He said "Old goat" (echo) "Your time has come" (echo) So he took that goat (echo) To the railroad tracks (echo) And tied him there (echo) So he couldn't come back (echo) When the Choo-choo came (echo) Choo choo choo choo! (echo) Choo-ooo-choo! (echo) Choo choo choo choo choo! (echo) When the goat got to Heaven (echo) St. Peter said (echo) "O-Oh Goat" (echo) "Where is your head?" (echo) "Well," the goat replied (echo) "I cannot tell" (echo) "For all I know..." (echo) "It went to Hell-o Folks! (We all knew then ending and shouted it together--We all thought it was a clever way to include one of those unspoken nasty words only parents used.) I'm simply posting this to keep this oral tradition alive. I've never heard anyone outside my family sing it since. I have passed it along to my children. Susannah Name: Email: Subject

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