This is a repeat song. There is one leader and it is done in front of an audience. It is helpful if there are people who know the entire sequence in the audience so they can everyone along. This is how it goes:
Leaer: One fat hen
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets, six simple simons selling salt in Siam
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets, six simple simons selling salt in Siam, seven salty sailors sniffing snoose
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets, six simple simons selling salt in Siam, seven salty sailors sniffing snoose, eight elongated elephants elevating on escalators
All: Repeats
One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets, six simple simons selling salt in Siam, seven salty sailors sniffing snoose, eight elongated elephants elevating on escalators, nine nasty nematoids nibbling on nine nasty nimatoads
All: Repeats
Leader: One fat hen, a couple of ducks, three baby brown bears, four rabbit running hares, five, fat, fidgety, ferrets, six simple simons selling salt in Siam, seven salty sailors sniffing snoose, eight elongated elephants elevating on escalators, nine nasty nematoids nibbling on nine nasty nimatoads, ten two-ton two-tone tan transcontinental trucks travelling from Tallahassee, Tennessee to Tyler, Texas on twenty-two terrible tires and two tanks of Texaco trutest on tusday the twenty second.
All: Repeats
By the end, most often people can't keep up so you only have the few people who already know it by heart reciting the entire thing while everyone looks uncertainly around while mumbling and pretending they know how it goes! It's a blast and a hoot rolled into one!
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