Chinese Lanterns
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The Chinese words in the chorus are a New Year greeting and response, so you may want to divide the children into groups and have each group sing one of the phrases. It's also a wonderful songs for dancing with scarves, or drawing a picture, or just closing your eyes and imagining.
Lyrics
See the pretty Chinese lanterns hanging in the sky
Pretty paper Chinese lanterns lighting up the night
CHORUS:
Tee don long (Chinese new Year greeting) kuo shin lien (response)
Tee don long (Chinese new Year greeting) kuo shin lien (response)
Paper lanterns decorate kuo shin lien
See the animal faces shining brightly all around
Every year a different animal lantern can be found (CHORUS)
People come from everywhere,
Lanterns carried in the air
Family gathers all around
Hear the children make a happy sound
Mother, father, brother, bring your lanterns everyone
Hold them high to make the nighttime sky as bright as sun. (CHORUS)
Red and yellow, purple too
Candles shining brightly through
Every Chinese lantern hung
Brings good luck to all in the year to come
See the pretty Chinese lanterns hanging in the sky
Pretty paper Chinese lanterns lighting up the night. (CHORUS)
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