Practicing Simple Rhythm: The Sweet Beets Song

You made it! Great! I’m here having lunch with my friend beet, and my other friend cherry. Beet and cherry and I are going to play a song called: “Sweet Beets.” It’s all about plying the rhythm. We’re going to play most of the rhythm on our legs, like this. Now, this song is a call and response. Which means I’m going to say something and then beet and cherry and you guys are going to repeat after me. Why don’t we try a quick warm-up? So, listen first and then you try it. Here we go.

Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet. Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet.

Hey that was pretty good. Nice job. So, without further ado lets’ play sweet beets. So, lets tap on our legs. This is how we keep the beat, nice and steady. That’s it. You can play with two hands or you try going back and forth between your hands. So, the song goes like this. If you want sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. If you want sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. Repeat after me, here we go.

Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet. Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet.

Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet. Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet.

Sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. Repeat after me again.

Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet.

Sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. Let’s put them all together, here we go.

Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet. Beet, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, beet, beet.

Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, beet, cher-ry, beet.

Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet. Cher-ry, cher-ry, cher-ry, beet.

Sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. Sing it with me. If you want sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got some. If you want some sweet beets, we’ve got ‘em.

Hey nice job. Great job following along. That was a lot of fun. So now that we’ve had something to eat we’re going to go take a little bit of a break over in the shady grove. That’s were we get relaxed and take it easy. Let’s go.