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Count Your Blessings Re-Revisited

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Here’s another tune for you using the idiom “Count your blessings.” Read the lyrics below:

Count Your Blessings and Smile

by George Formby

Though plans may often go wrong, let ’em hear your voice.
You’ll find that rhythm and song make the world rejoice.
Make life go with a swing, laugh at trouble and sing.
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, count your blessings and smile!

While you’re playing your part, keep a song in your heart.
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, count your blessings and smile!
Sing low, sing high, isn’t it grand beating the band?
Who wants to die? Oh what a happy land, hi!
Show them what you can do, make a hullabaloo.
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ha-ha-ha-ha, count your blessings and smile.

You got to get together, swing it around!
Get together, swing it around!
Make life go with a swing and a smile,
Laugh at trouble and sing all the while.
Count your blessings and smile!

While you’re playing your own little part
You’ve gotta keep a song in your heart,
Da-di-da-doh-di-da-da-dah, count your blessings and smile!

Sing low, sing high, isn’t it grand beating the band?
Who wants to die? Oh what a happy happy land, hi!
Show them what you can do, make a hullabaloo.
Ho-ho-ho-ho-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Da-di-da-doh-di-da-da-dah!

Count your blessings! (one,  two,  three)
Count your blessings! (four,  five,  six)
Count your blessings and smile!

Make life go with a swing and a smile,
Laugh at trouble and sing all the while.
Count your blessings and smile!

While you’re playing your own little part,
Keep a song in your heart.
Count your blessings and smile!
Sing low, sing high,
Who wants to die?
Show them what you can do,
Make a hullabaloo.
Count your blessings and smile!

Ho-ho-ho-ho-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Count your blessings and smile!
Smile! Come on! Smile!

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Count Your Blessings Revisited

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Here’s a classic Eighties tune for you using last week’s idiom. Enjoy!

Count Your Blessings

by Ashford & Simpson

I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget to count my blessings
I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget to count your blessings

You can’t say
I love you too many times
Simple things mean so much
Like when was the last touch
When was the last kiss
When did you hold them like this

I almost lost the one I love
Searching ’round for something new
Before you make the same mistake
Let me pass this on to you

I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget to count my blessings
I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget to count your blessings

Though they don’t complain
Doesn’t mean that there’s no pain
To forget is the worst
So always put them first
Thinking of their needs
Make them the one you please

I almost lost the one I love
Searching ’round for something new
Before you make the same mistake
Let me pass this on to you

If you don’t see eye to eye
Come close to saying goodbye
Think how far you’ve come
The victories you’ve won
What’s kept you through the years
Was to dry each other’s tears
Memories you recall
Lets you know you have it all

I almost lost the one I love
Searching ’round for something new
Before you make the same mistake
Let me pass this on to you

I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget to count your blessings
I had to learn, learn a lesson
Never forget…

 

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Enthusiastic Revisited

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Here’s a video from Sesame Street featuring last week’s Awesome Adjective:

Enthusiastic means you’re really excited about something, so yes, Elmo and Mindy Kaling are very enthusiastic. Mindy and Elmo are enthusiastic about dancing and chickens, but, chickens, for the record, are not so enthusiastic about dancing. Instead, they like to hop up and down. What are you enthusiastic about?

You can catch Sesame Street in the morning and the afternoon, weekdays on PBS.

For more fun games and videos for your preschooler in a safe, child-friendly environment, visit http://www.sesamestreet.org

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Autumn in New York

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Here’s a classic song by the late, great Billie Holiday having to do with fall in the Big Apple:

Autumn in New York
Written by Vernon Duke
Performed by Billie Holiday

Autumn in New York
Why does it seem so inviting?
Autumn in New York
It spells the thrill of first-nighting
Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds
In canyons of steel
They’re making me feel
I’m home

It’s autumn in New York
That brings the promise of new love
Autumn in New York
Is often mingled with pain
Dreamers with empty hands
May sigh for exotic lands
It’s autumn in New York
It’s good to live it again.

Autumn in New York
The gleaming rooftops at sundown
Autumn in New York
It lifts you up when you’re let down
Jaded roué and gay divorcée who lunch at the Ritz
Will tell you that it’s
Divine

This autumn in New York
Transforms the slums in Mayfair
Autumn in New York
You’ll need no castle in Spain
Lovers that bless the dark
On benches in Central Park
Greet autumn in New York
It’s good to live it again.

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Literacy Review Revisited

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Above is a “greatest hits” video from last spring’s Literacy Review Celebration at NYU.  You will find the Adult Literacy Program’s own Tammie Tai at the 3:01 mark!

The Literacy Review is an annual journal of writing from adult literacy programs throughout New York City. Edited by NYU Gallatin students, the book is distributed at a celebration that includes readings by the newly published writers.

The faculty adviser for the Literacy Review is Professor June Foley, who teaches an advanced writing class here at University Settlement on Fridays. To learn more about the Literacy Review, click here.

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