Aiken Drum

(version 2)

Words & Music:

Traditional Scottish & American

 

When I was student teaching, the teacher had his Kindergarteners collaborate on a picture of what they thought Aiken Drum would look like.  A wonderful companion project to this song! The word "turkey" is the clue that this is the American version of the traditional Scottish song.

 

C                                  G7                 C

There was a man lived in the moon, lived in the moon, lived in the moon.

C                     G7                   C        G7    C

There was a man lived in the moon, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

       C                      G7       C

And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle.

       C                                     G7    C

And he played upon a ladle, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

And his hat was made of pudding, of pudding, of pudding.

And his hat was made of pudding and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

And his coat was made of turkey, of turkey, of turkey.

And his coat was made of turkey, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

And his belt was made of licorice, of licorice, of licorice.

And his coat was made of licorice, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

And his hair was made of spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.

And his hair was made of spaghetti, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

And his pants were made of fish sticks, of fish sticks, of fish sticks.

And his pants were made of fish sticks, and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

And his buttons were made of walnuts, of walnuts, of walnuts.

And his buttons were made of walnuts and his name was Aiken Drum.

 

CHORUS:

 

USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND ADD WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO AIKEN!

 

The provenance of the attached easy arrangement of this is unknown.  It is part of a collection that people gave me over the years.  Please inform me if correctly attribute it.