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CHAPTER 7: Robert Burns & Great Tunes
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet who lived from 1759 - 1796. He wrote poems and song, his most famous you sing every New Year's Eve, Auld Lang Syne.
Click on the blue buttons and the videos to learn more about Robert Burns. Click the videos to listen to the music that Mrs. Honeybee played in this chapter.
On page 49, chapter 7 opens with a quote from the Robert Burns poem, To A Mouse.
"'The best laid schemes o' mice and men,' said the poet Robert Burns, don't always turn out quite right. But maybe it's different with women." (p. 49)
"No sooner had she played the first few bars of a tune (it was 'Food, Glorious Food,' from the musical Oliver!) than she saw from the corner of her eye a little mouse dart out of the hole in the moulding, grab the chocolate, and whisk back in again." (p. 50)
"The following morning she put another in the same place, sat down, and began to play a song called Climb Ev'ry Mountain." (p. 51-52)
"'Well done, mouse!' said Mrs. Honeybee quietly, and she began to play a song called 'You're the Top.'" (p.53)
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