| Lyrics: | Lyrics & Music by: George Newall
Performed by: Blossom Dearie
Came home from
camping last spring.
Saw people, places and things.
We barely had arrived,
Friends
asked us to describe
The people, places and every last thing.
So we unpacked our
adjectives.
I unpacked "frustrating" first.
Reached in and found the word "worst."
Then I picked "soggy" and
Next I picked "foggy" and
Then I was ready to tell them
my tale,
'cause I'd unpacked my adjectives.
Adjectives are words you use to really
describe things,
Handy words to carry around.
Days are sunny or they're rainy
Boys
are dumb or else they're brainy
Adjectives can show you which way.
Adjectives are
often used to help us compare things
To say how thin how fat how short how tall.
Girls
who are tall can get taller,
Boys who are small can get smaller,
Till one is the tallest
And one is the smallest of all.
We hiked along without care.
Then we ran
into a bear!
He was a hairy bear!
He was a scary bear!
We beat a hasty retreat
from his lair,
And described him with adjectives!
Whoah! Boy, that was one big,
ugly bear!
You can even make adjectives out of the other parts of
speech, like
verbs or nouns. All you have to do is tack on an
ending, like "ic" or "ish" or "ary". For
example, this boy can
grow up to be a huge man, but still have a boyish face. "Boy"
is a
noun, but the ending "ish" makes it an adjective.
"Boyish": that describes the huge man's face.
Get it?
Next time you go on a trip,
Remember this little tip:
The minute you
get back,
They'll ask you this and that.
You can describe people, places and things.
Simply unpack your adjectives.
You can do it with adjectives.
Tell them about it
with adjectives.
You can shout it with adjectives |
