Here Is The Barn
Here is old the barn, let's open doors wide,
Let’s all look inside where animals hide.
Left are the horses, and right are the cows,
They’re eating dinner and drinking right now.
They’ll sleep here till night turns into day light.
When we open doors, they’ll all trot away.
Out in the pasture, they’ll eat grass and hay.
Cows will moo loudly, glad horses will neigh.
-Ends-
Here Is The Barn is a secular version of the old nursery rhyme,
'/Here is the Church, here is the steeple, open the gates and see all the people, Here is the person going upstairs, here is the person saying his prayers.'
The updated version of the poem, The Barn, either the original or my version, is one you can recite to children at dinner in restaurants and coffee shops. It also fills in time and amuses everyone when you are seated waiting for transport and on long journeys on planes.
What did I change?
Line 1 I added 'old'. I changed 'it; to 'doors'.
Line 2 I deleted 'the' before animals and added 'all'
Line 3 I changed 'here' and 'here' to 'left' and 'right'.
Line 5 I added 'light'
Line 6 I added 'trot'
Line 7 Line 8 I deleted the word 'the' twice, in order to add moo, and glad.
You might prefer the version I originally saw, being simpler, easier to remember, easier to understand for younger children. However, I thought that my version was more visual and therefore clearer and easier to understand.
It really doesn't matter which version you remember, of if you accidentally or deliberately make up another version.
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Performance Poetry
Strictly speaking, this is a piece of performance poetry. But it is only suitable for close up around a table, or at a bedside. On stage the performers hands would be rahter small, unless enlarged on Zoom, or using a large screen.
