I Play Splash
by Marisa Montes
Copyright © 2001 by Marisa Montes. All rights reserved.
[Can be sung to the music of
"My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"]
I play SPLASH! when I wash in the bathtub
As I lather my face and my hands.
I play SPLASH! and become a sea monster,
Scaring people from faraway lands.
I just wiggle my terrible tootsies,
And I jiggle my horrible head.
But I giggle to show them I'm kidding,
So the scared folks will like me instead.
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
I love to play in the bath—and SPLASH!
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
I always play SPLASH! in the bath.
So I SPLASH! and become a small tugboat
That is tugging a large ship to sea.
SPLASH! again, and I am a fat duckling,
Eating moss that's as green as can be.
One more SPLASH! and I glide through the ocean,
As a turtle,
A sea horse—
A clam!
Better yet, I'm a young eager beaver,
And I'm building my family's dam.
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
Just SPLASH! and I turn into this or that!
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
I SPLASH! when I wash in the bath.
I play SPLASH! and become an old pirate,
Finding treasures long buried at sea.
SPLASH! again and turn into a mermaid,
Hiding most of the treasures for me!
One more SPLASH! and now I am a penguin,
Or a walrus,
A whale,
Or a seal!
Maybe now I'm a sea otter floating,
While I'm fixing myself a fresh meal.
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
Whatever I might want to be, I am!
SPLISH! SPLASH! SPLISH! SPLASH!
I love to play SPLASH! in the bath.
I play SPLASH! and become a small starfish,
And I twinkle about in the sea.
So whenever you make that next star wish,
Don't forget you can wish upon me.
Or perhaps I become a blue fishie . . .
Or a lobster with googlie eyes.
Then I SPLASH!—and I'm back in the bathtub
As a little kid, regular size!