"Old King Cole"是一首廣受歡迎的兒歌,歌詞如下:
Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And he would a song each night of the year.
With his merry old band there were thirty-and-one,
King Cole and his men would sing all the day long.
The first was a robin redbreast in the old brown thorn,
The second was a little gray bird,
The chaffinch, with yellow bill.
And so they would sing all the day long.
Old King Cole would play his pipe so well,
And his merry old band would sing out so well.
And they would sing of the sun and the rain,
And they would sing of the wind in the tree-top.
這是一首簡單的兒歌,歌詞簡單易懂,旋律輕快,適合孩子們學習。它通過描述老科爾國王和他的樂隊的日常生活,傳達了快樂和友誼的信息。