This song includes the names of the children in your class, so depending on how many kids you have and how many syllables their names have, you may have to switch things around a little. You can always repeat names or add Latin endings to their names. That is permitted.
The tune is from an Irish tune called Fox Hunter's Jig but I play it in A. The first chord is like A major except you take your finger off the B string and play that open. My favorite recording of it is by Cherish the Ladies, Ballad of the Foxhunter. Cherish the Ladies lyrics are a W.B. Yeats poem, but mine are kind of an anthem for our Latin Club. This is the first song we learned, to go along with Chapter 1 in Primer Level A of Latin for Children from Classical Academic Press.
Ballad of Latin Verbs
Link to the video on YouTube.
Amo amas amat, amamis amatis amant
Do das dat, damis, datis, dant
Narro, narras narrat, narramis narratis narrant
Intro, intras intrat, intramis intratis intrant
Shira, conjugate!
Ben, make the nouns decline!
Adjective endings are our food,
Verb tense our wine!
Brayton, the ablative
tells where and when and how
Stephen the genetive
can classify a noun
Erro erras errat, erramis erratis errant
Specto, spectas, spectat, spectamis, spectatis, spectant
Sto stas stat, stamis statis stant
Paro paras parat, paramis paratis parant
Martina conjugate!
Nicholas decline!
Benny and Sarah
Let your vocabulary shine!
Dative tells us just for whom
the verb is done
Acccustive tells us who
the verb is done upon.
Cute idea, but your 1st plural ending is incorrect. It should be "mus" not "mis".
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