One of the Charlotte Mason things I am working to implement is learning Folk Songs.  But I'm not real regular about it and I actually have expanded it to include exposure to other genres of music including bluegrass, jazz, and rock n'roll, as well as the classical she also recommends.

Anyway, probably a couple month ago, I checked out a book of folk poems from the library and flipped through and sang him the ones I knew tunes for.  He loved the Ants Go Marching and had me sing it all the way through probably 4 or 5 times before the book went back to the library.  Then I never heard about it again...until this morning.

He starts marching around singing it.  I asked him if he heard it somewhere else or just remembered it from when I sang it to him. he said just from me.  This has got to be at least 6 weeks ago!  Amazing.

So, here's the funny part - he gets to three and can't remember what is the rhyming line.  I have a horrible memory, so I don't remember either and we've been working on rhymes, so I tell him to just make up a line that rhymes with three.  I figure it'll be bump my knee or something like that.  Noooo...it's "the last one stops to go pee!"  I can't stop laughing even though I know I should.

So I (try to) calmly say, "why don't we try to find the real words on the computer?".  I googled "lyrics ants go marching" and found the words (climb a tree). 

Aren't kids funny and isn't the internet amazing?