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Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree

 
Sent in by Barb and Bob Booth (rbooth@fwb.gulf.net)

Under the spreading chestnut tree.  
There we sat just you and me.  
Oh how happy we would be under the spreading chestnut tree.

(This song has hand motions for each phrase. Each time you
repeat the verse, you leave out the phrase for the hand motion
and just do the motion. Eventually, all you will do is hand
motions.)

Under (make hands over head like an umbrella) the spreading
(move hands out like tree branches) chest (point to chest) nut
(point to head) tree (move hands out like tree branches again).
There we sat (hug yourself) just you (point to somebody else) and
me (point to yourself). Oh how happy (smile and point to smile)
we would be (hug yourself). Under (make hands over head like an
umbrella) the spreading (move hands out like tree branches) chest
(point to chest) nut (point to head) tree (move hands out like
tree branches).