4th Grade

Edelweiss   from The Sound of Music, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodger

Edelweiss, Edelweiss,

Every morning you greet me, 

Small and white, clean and bright, 

You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow,
bloom and grow forever

Edelweiss, Edelweiss,

Bless my homeland forever. 

Danny Boy  Irish Traditional, words by Frederick Edward Weatherly

Oh, Danny Boy, 

the pipes, the pipes are calling, 

from glen to glen and down the moutain side. 

The summers gone, and all the roses falling,

It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. 

But come ye back, when summer's in the meadow,

Or when the valley's hush'd and white with snow.

Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow, 

Oh, Danny Boy, oh Danny Boy I love you so! 

Faraway Cookies  written by Sandra Boyton

When the sunlight has gone and the green hills turn grey
and the day turns to evening somehow
then I'm thinking of you, though you’re so faraway
and I'm wanting you close to me now

Oh, chocolate chip cookies so high on the shelf
hiding inside of the jar
I'm not tall enough to reach you myself
so near, and yet so very far

I can never forget you
you’re all i adore
through many long moments I've tried
i call out your name
but I'll have to do more
to bring you back here to my side

Oh, chocolate chip cookies so high on the shelf
hiding inside of the jar
I'm not tall enough to reach you myself
so near, and yet so very far

If I had three wishes they’d all be for you
if I had my way you’d be mine
oh, the reach wouldn’t matter
if I had a ladder
if I weren’t so short we’d be fine

I believe we will be back together some day
I cannot be happy till then
I have loved you before
I could love you some more
and I long to be with you again

when the sunlight has gone and the green hills turn grey

Oh, chocolate chip cookies so high on the shelf
hiding inside of the jar
I’m not tall enough to reach you myself
so near, and yet so very far

and I wish I could be where you are