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Goin' On A Lion Hunt

 
(Leader sings a line, everyone repeats. During each verse,
everyone slaps their
hands on their knees in a rhythm as if they were marching.)

Goin' on a lion hunt! 
I'm not scared! 
Look at all the beautiful flowers. 
Oh-oh! 
Tall, tall grass ahead! 
Can't go over it! 
Can't go under it! 
Can't go around it! 
Gotta go through it! 

(everyone does actions as if parting long grass) 

Goin' on a lion hunt! 
I'm not scared! 
Look at all the beautiful flowers. 
Oh-oh! 
Icky, sticky, mud ahead! 
Can't go over it! 
Can't go under it! 
Can't go around it! 
Gotta go through it! 

(actions as if you were trying to slog through mud) 

Goin' on a lion hunt! 
I'm not scared! 
Look at all the beautiful flowers. 
Oh-oh! 
Deep, wide, river ahead! 
Can't go over it! 
Can't go under it! 
Can't go around it! 
Guess we gotta swim it! 

(actions as if swimming) 

Goin' on a lion hunt! 
I'm not scared! 
Look at all the beautiful flowers. 
Oh-oh! 
Tall, tall trees ahead! 
Can't go over them! 
Can't go under them! 
Can't go around them! 
Guess we gotta climb them! 

(actions as if climing up one side of a tree and down the other) 

Goin' on a lion hunt! 
I'm not scared! 
Look at all the beautiful flowers. 
Oh-oh! 
Deep, dark cave ahead! 
Can't go over it! 
Can't go under it! 
Can't go around it! 
Gotta go through it! 

(next verse is done very, very quietly, as if you were scared of
the cave) 

Goin' on a lion hunt... 
I'm not scared... 
Look at all the beautiful flowers... 
Oh-oh... 
Big, fuzzy nose ahead... 
Two green eyes ahead... 
Long, long whiskers ahead... 
Long, sharp teeth ahead... 
It's a LION! 
RUN!! 

(slapping on knees goes very fast, as if you were running... go
through all the
obstacles in reverse order and as fast as you can, with more
slapping of hands on
knees inbetween each obstacle.)

Up the trees! Down the trees! Run!!! 
Swim the river! Run!! 
Through the mud! Run!! 
Through the grass! Run!! 
HOME!

And here's another version of the song:

We're all going on lion hunt 
I'm not scared 
I've got a gun 
And bulletts too 
Oh-oh 
Void ahead 
Short grass - sh-sh-sh 

Other Verses: 

Long grass: shhhh-shhhhh-shhhhhh 
Swamp: gloomp-gloomp-gloomp 
Lost: make your hands "run" up a tree, have to look around and
then come
back down 
Supermarket: scuse me-scuse me-scuse me 
Village: hello-hello-hello 
Lion: ahhhhhhh! 

Then go through all the actions but in the reverse order