This song has been written to help kids in group 6 learn some of the vocabulary in their English method.

My question is, is it a sea-shanty…or???????

The Girl with the Curls

Kylie van Dam

2021

When I was young there was a girl

As beautiful as could be.

Her curls were red, she wore them long,

What a sight to see.

And her pretty round face

Only had eyes for me.

A happier boy in all the land

Never could there be.

But then came the man on the hill

With his earrings and his leather boots

And his strange exotic smells.

He sold the girls the dresses

He showed them how to wear

And he sold them lots of pretty things

For their feet up to their hair.

My girl, her head, her head was turned,

Turned away from me.

Her curls, she put them up,

Never more free.

And her pretty round face

Only had eyes to see

All the sparkling things in the shop on the hill

And never more me!

Oh how I hated the man on the hill

With his earrings and his leather boots

And his strange exotic smells.

He sold the girls the dresses

He showed them how to wear

And he sold them lots of pretty things

For their feet up to their hair.

Now I’m as old as old as old and as

Thin as thin can be.

And I look back at the angry boy

And chuckle

Merrily.

For that pretty round face

Daily do I see,

Since the girl with the curls

Came off the hill

And said she’d marry

Me!

All hail the man on the hill

With his earrings and his leather boots

And his strange exotic smells.

He sold the girls the dresses

He showed them how to wear

And he sold them lots of pretty things

For their feet up to their…

All hail the man on the hill

With his earrings and his leather boots

And his strange exotic smells.

He sold my girl her dresses

And he showed how to be

The woman with the curls

Who came off the hill

And said she’d marry

Me!