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Shooting, Shooting, Shooting

Sung to
I Have a Little Dreidel
Written by
Vicki Ryder
Gaggle
Rochester
Filed
January 1, 1970
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Tips from the gaggle
  • Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
  • If the original tune is unfamiliar, look it up first.
  • Modify freely. Every gaggle adapts songs to local issues.
SING IT to the tune of I Have a Little Dreidel

I need to buy a present to give my little boy.
I’ll buy him a toy soldier ’cause that’s a real cute toy.
It comes with a great uniform, and with a toy gun, too,
So he can learn to shot and kill,
’Cause that’s the thing to do.

Oh, shooting, shooting, shooting!
Now isn’t that such fun?
And when he gets much older
He’ll shoot a real live gun.
Oh parents, please consider
Before you shop today.
And don’t buy guns or war toys!
That’s not how kids should play.

I need to buy a present to give my little girl.
I’ll buy her a toy soldier with a rifle she can twirl.
She’ll learn to march in quarter time
and follow the commands,
So she’ll be set to go to war with a rifle in her hands.

Oh, shooting, shooting, shooting!
Now isn’t that such fun?
And when she gets much older
She’ll shoot a real live gun.
Oh parents, please consider
Before you shop today.
And don’t buy guns or war toys!
That’s not how kids should play.

♦ ♦ ♦
Written by
Vicki Ryder
For the
Rochester Gaggle
Filed
January 1, 1970