Hawkins Hollow Kids Songs
Mud Kitchen Uneven Meter Walking Song with the Folding Trail Card
The part everyone joins: “Count what changed, not who was wrong.” The song promises that different memories and an honest pause can reshape the plan without turning anyone into the problem.
Lyrics
Card-Sound Intro
Fold-click, fold-click—five steps, then three.
No voice begins it; the card counts free.
Spencer remembers the turn by the stones,
sharp to the left where the moonflower leans.
Aleea remembers a pause at the wall,
seven small steps and no turn at all.
Emmitt unfolds three picture roles:
lead, witness, pause in hand-sized folds.
After each choice, the cards move on;
no one keeps leading from dusk into dawn.
Uneven Chorus
Five: Count what changed, not who was wrong.
Seven: Trade the role and carry it on.
Five: Step if you choose; stand still if you need.
Seven: A pause can alter the speed.
Spencer takes witness: “I saw the stone.”
Aleea takes lead: “I heard the tone.”
Emmitt takes pause and lifts one hand;
the folding card stops where the shadows land.
They test both memories, neither erased:
one keeps the corner, one keeps the pace.
The route can hold them side by side,
until a silver mist changes the guide.
Weather Break
The breeze taps leaf against folded seam.
Damp air softens the card’s old beat.
Five loses one; seven leaves two—
weather enters with something new.
No one owns the meter now.
Leaf-tap answers the card-fold sound.
Spencer counts stone; Aleea counts air.
Emmitt keeps silence open there.
The weather does not settle the past;
it changes what the next step asks.
Lead, witness, pause trade once more,
then turn the walk toward mud-kitchen doors.
Spencer stacks the dry clay cups.
Aleea wipes the rain-dark shelf.
Emmitt folds the trail card small
and leaves one blank role for someone else.
Clay cup: tok. Damp cloth: shh.
Leaf at the doorway answers: tik.
No banner rises, no finish line—
the room grows clear in uneven time.
Five: Count what changed, not who was wrong.
Seven: Cleanup carries the weather-song.
Five: Step, trade, pause—each choice belongs.
Seven: The clear room is where we end.
About This Song
Age lane: S4 — Upper Elementary Songs, ages 8–12
Theme: Health & Feelings — treating a pause as real participation.
Energy: Reflective, alert, and lightly adventurous; uneven walking pulse resolving into a spacious cleanup groove.
Estimated duration: About 2 minutes 25 seconds.
Participation: Staggered steps, spoken role names, optional silence, handoff gestures, and layered cleanup percussion.
Ways to Join In
- Assign lead, witness, and pause cards; trade them after each verse decision.
- Five-count groups may step 3+2; seven-count groups may step 3+2+2.
- Silence is an available response, not a missed entrance.
- After the weather break, follow Emmitt’s pause hand and the leaf-tap cue instead of the opening walking pulse.