Hawkins Hollow Kids Songs
Fern Trail After the Floating Trail Card
The part everyone joins: “Tap, brush, leave a listening space.” The song promises that an interruption can become part of the music without crowding the small living thing nearby.
Lyrics
Spencer tapped a fern-stem beat.
Alice brushed two pebbles neat.
Aleea held the space between.
Lillian watched the trail card lean.
Only the card went out to roam,
toward stump-school yard, then floated home.
Four friends kept the pattern here:
tap, brush, pause, and listen near.
All: Tap, brush, leave a listening space.
Let the quiet keep its place.
Hands can stop and ears can trace—
tap, brush, leave a listening space.
At rain-chain corner, one tap fell soon.
It broke the pattern out of tune.
Spencer said, “Keep every beat.”
Alice saw a snail near their feet.
Aleea held the rhythm still.
Lillian made one slow-hand hill.
“Keep the beat” and “guard the ground”
became two parts of one new sound.
Turn Section
First part: tap on the floating card.
Second part: leave the snail’s space clear.
Lillian’s slow hand set the time.
No quick sound could jump the line.
Once at rain-chain corner, wait.
Spencer held the card-edge straight.
Alice kept the snail-side clear.
Aleea listened with one open ear.
Lillian swept the countdown slow:
one, two, three—then let it go.
One small drop touched one chain ring:
ting became the ending.
All: Tap, brush, leave a listening space.
Let the quiet keep its place.
Hold the snail-side, count with grace—
then one drop completes the phrase.
About This Song
Age lane: S2 — Preschool Songs, ages 3–5
Theme: Evening Community — protecting something small while solving something big.
Energy: Curious sound-making with a buoyant medium pulse and a deliberate listening rest.
Estimated duration: About 1 minute 30 seconds.
Participation: Tap-brush-pause body percussion, role exchange, one open-hand protection gesture, and listening for an ordinary background sound.
Ways to Join In
- Tap once on “tap,” brush palms on “brush,” and hold still on “listening space.”
- Children may perform either the rhythm part or the snail-protection part.
- Lillian’s slow sweep sets every entrance after the turn.
- The group listens for the final sound instead of vocalizing it.