SINGING TIME. “FAMILY HISTORY–I am doing it” song visuals. Children/Youth can be inspired to find stories and write stories about their family: living and dead. As they keep records of them, they are building their family tree. The goal is to feel the joy when their family is sealed together forever. Write the words on the cue cards (in your language) to place on the back of the visuals.
SONG VISUALS:
“FAMILY HISTORY—I Am Doing It”
(Children’s Songbook, p. 94)
DOWNLOAD INCLUDES:
. 16 visuals (color/black-and-white/cue cards) pdf
. Fun Ways to Use Song Visuals pdf
USE SONG VISUALS FOR ANY LANGUAGE – Just add the words on the cue cards provided.
LYRICS & MUSIC FOR THE SONG
“FAMILY HISTORY—I Am Doing It”
TO MAKE AND USE: Mount cue cards on the back of each poster that matches with the song verse.
FOUR WAYS TO GRAB SONG VISUALS AND SINGING
Lyrics
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Fam’ly history—I am doing it,
My fam’ly history.
And the love I feel when I’m doing it
Is very sweet to me.
I learn stories of my progenitors;
I write their history.
I keep records of my loved ones
On my own fam’ly tree.
2.Fam’ly living now and the ones who’ve died
Can all be sealed to me,
And someday I’ll meet ev’ry one of them,
I’m sure as I can be.
Oh what joy we’ll have when they say to me,
“We’re all a family.
I am yours and you are mine now,
Through all eternity.”
Credits
Words and music: Jeanne P. Lawler, 1924–2013. © 1982 IRI; revised


