News from Germany:
The hottest thing in German music right now is a 4-year-old girl’s made-up song about a crocodile.
Joy Gruttman’s song, “Snappy the Little Crocodile” (“Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil”), is the No. 1 song on the German charts. Her family posted the song on a Web site as a joke, but a radio station in Cologne, Germany, got hold of it and made it a hit.
My four-year-old girl makes up songs all the time! At first she just made up new lyrics to old tunes, such as her “The Big, Giant Spider (Went Up the Waterspout),” but now she’s inventing her own tunes and lyrics, like her recent hit “Jesus Loves My Teeth.”
