Snakes - Peter Jenkyns (RCM Gr.3 Vocal)

What a fun little song this is and a little tricky but with lots of opportunities for some dramatic interpretation of the text. I had looked at it many times but never had a student do it, but now having sung it, have a whole new appreciation for it. Hopefully you will as well.
Peter Jenkyns was a 20th century British composer, singer and educator who wrote a series of songs for primary-aged children, sensitively arranged and with appropriate lyrics. Jenkyns was the headmaster of two primary schools outside of London for whose choirs he composed songs for the St Albans’ Schools Music Festival. He was also a highly-regarded Gilbert and Sullivan patter-song singer and he founded a local Gilbert & Sullivan society which is still thriving.