How to play Down By the Bay on a Fisher Price Toy Xylophone

Lets try to play Down By the Bay Children's Song on a Fisher Price 8 Note Toy Xylophone for kids


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"Down by the Bay" is a traditional children's song. A famous version was performed by Raffi and appears on his 1976 album Singable Songs for the Very Young. In recent years, the song had gained popularity as a campfire song among the Scouting Movement in Britain.

The song lyrics are usually as follows:

Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
For if I do,
My mother will say:

Usually the insertion lyrics follow some kind of variation of the question "Did/(Have) you ever see a _____ _____ing a _____?", with rhyming words. For example:

"Did you ever see a moose kissing a goose?" (or "goose kissing a moose")
"Did you ever see a whale with a polka dot tail?"
"Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie?"
"Did you ever see a bear combing his hair?"
"Did you ever see a bee with a sunburned knee?"
"Did you ever see llamas eating their pajamas?"
"Did you ever see a dragon pulling a wagon?"
"Did you ever see a goat wearing a coat?"
"Did you ever see a snake baking a cake?"
"Did you ever see a frog walking his dog?"
"Did you ever see a mouse painting his house?"
"Did you ever see a pig wearing a wig?"
"Did you ever see a rhino kissing a dino?" (from Barney & Friends)
The song can be ended with the following line:

"Did you ever have time when you couldn't make a rhyme?"
Each of the rhyming lines is followed by the ending line:

"Down by the bay"