Kathy Mattea | Starting with Sounds | Tennessee PBS
9/24/2021 | 5m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Read and sing along with country music and bluegrass singer Kathy Mattea.
Grammy award-winning country music and bluegrass singer Kathy Mattea reads "The Wind in the Willows" and sings "One Light, One Sun." The Tennessee Department of Education's series "Starting with Sounds" is a statewide awareness campaign to help parents and students understand the importance of reading in an engaging and fun way in collaboration with Tennessee PBS.
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Kathy Mattea | Starting with Sounds | Tennessee PBS
9/24/2021 | 5m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Grammy award-winning country music and bluegrass singer Kathy Mattea reads "The Wind in the Willows" and sings "One Light, One Sun." The Tennessee Department of Education's series "Starting with Sounds" is a statewide awareness campaign to help parents and students understand the importance of reading in an engaging and fun way in collaboration with Tennessee PBS.
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- Hi, I'm Kathy Mattea, and as a singer and a songwriter, I'm also a storyteller.
All my life I've loved to sing and all my life I've loved to read.
Today I'm gonna read you a little bit from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.
We're gonna join the adventures of Mr. Toad.
Let's join Toad as he's feeling very proud of himself.
This is from Chapter 10.
As he tramped along gaily, he thought of his adventures and escapes and how when things seemed at their worst, he had always managed to find a way out.
And his pride and conceit began to swell within him.
Ho ho, he said to himself, as he marched along with his chin in the air.
What a clever Toad I am.
There is surely no animal equal to me for cleverness in the whole world.
My enemies shut me up in prison, encircled by sentries, watched night and day by warders.
I walk out through them all by sheer ability coupled with courage.
I snap my fingers at them and vanish, laughing into space.
I am unfortunately thrown into a canal.
What of it?
I swim ashore, I seize a horse, I ride off in triumph, and I sell the horse for a whole pocketful of money and an excellent breakfast.
Ho ho, I am the Toad.
The handsome, the popular, the successful Toad.
He got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself and sang it at the top of his voice though there was no one to hear it but him.
It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal had ever composed.
(clears throat) The world has held great heroes, as history books have showed, but never a name to go down to fame compared with that of Toad.
The clever men at Oxford know all that there is to be knowed, but they, none of them, know one half as much as the intelligent Mr. Toad.
The animals sat in the Ark and cried, their tears in torrents flowed.
Who was it said there's land ahead?
Encouraging Mr. Toad.
The army all saluted as they marched along the road.
Was it the king or the kitchener?
No, it was Mr. Toad.
The queen and her ladies-in-waiting sat at the window and sewed.
She cried, look, who's that handsome, man?
They answered Mr. Toad.
I love that.
It's good to be proud of ourselves and why not write a poem to celebrate our accomplishments.
We could learn a lot from Mr. Toad, I tell you what, would you like to hear a song?
I'd love to sing you one.
This is a song called "One Light, One Sun" by my friend Raffi, and it's a song that your mom or dad might know from when they were kids.
Hope you like it.
♪ One light, one sun ♪ ♪ One sun lighting everyone ♪ ♪ One world turning ♪ ♪ One world turning everyone ♪ ♪ One world, one home ♪ ♪ One world home for everyone ♪ ♪ One dream, one song ♪ ♪ One song heard by everyone ♪ ♪ One love, one heart ♪ ♪ One heart warming everyone ♪ ♪ One hope, one joy ♪ ♪ One love filling every one light ♪ ♪ One sun, one sun lighting everyone ♪ ♪ One light warming everyone ♪ So thanks for letting me spend time with you today.
I hope you've enjoyed our time together.
I really have.
Keep reading and keep singing.
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