What the song is about
This is a happy song for young children. It starts with a greeting, asks how you are, and invites you to move: wave, clap, jump and touch the sky. In the chorus we name four colors. At the end we wave and say goodbye.
Useful words and expressions
- Hello! / Goodbye! / See you soon!: ways to greet someone and to say goodbye.
- How are you?: a friendly question when you meet someone. One answer is I am happy.
- How about you?: a short way to ask the same question back.
- Wave your hand: move your hand to say hello or goodbye.
- Clap your hands: hit your hands together.
- Jump up high: jump as high as you can.
- Touch the sky: reach up very high. It is a playful picture, because nobody can really touch the sky.
- Are you ready? Let's go!: we say this before we start something.
- Colors: red, blue, yellow, green.
- Numbers: one, two, three.
- bird, tree, sky, hand: simple nouns to point at and name.
Grammar
- Commands (imperative): the verb comes first, with no subject: Wave your hand, Clap your hands, Jump up high, Look at the bird.
- Let's + verb: Let's go! means "let us go". We use it to invite others to do something together.
- Present simple with be: I am happy, How are you?
- Look at + noun: Look at the bird. Remember the word at after look.
- Prepositions of place: in the tree.
- Repeating an adjective: the green, green tree repeats the word to make it stronger. It means "very green".
Words chosen for the rhyme
- Red and blue, I love you: you is there to rhyme with blue. The colors and I love you do not connect in meaning. It is just a fun, warm line.
- Yellow and green, what a scene!: scene is there to rhyme with green. Here it means "what a beautiful sight!". In everyday English, what a scene! often means a loud fuss or argument. To say something looks beautiful, say What a view! or How beautiful!