Pictionary with song

Watching the residents play Pictionary today I thought of a great music therapy group for an Intellectual wellness week. I will draw pictures and have residents draw pictures to illustrate a song. I don't know if it's an original idea. but I like it!

Olympic week songs

I have been thinking about my olympic songs and here is a vague idea of what I'm coming up with...

I'm thinking of finding sports and then songs related to the sports. The may not be Olympic sports, just any song that could be in competitions.

For example: Bicycle Built for Two (bicycle racing)

I need to figure out the rest of the sports though...I always think about them whenever I'm not where I can write down my ideas.

I need equestrian songs, basketball, swimming, gymnastics (maybe the man on the flying trapeze?) Honestly I still need to research the sports to figure out what goes with it.

The other idea I have had is to mimic the motion of the songs by playing instruments or moving to music to simulate the olympics. I also thought about playing some sort of active moving game using instruments or music.

New Song Suggestions

So that I will later remember to come back and find these songs:

Georgia on My Mind
Sweet Georgia Brown
Somebody to Love me (not the queen song)

This afternoon we threw the ball around with song suggestions. This was a good activity for physical and intellectual wellness as we had to think of songs and kick and toss the ball. I think it well. Everyone seemed to have fun. Time went quickly.

I just found one of them. It's not Somebody to Love me but I wish I had someone to love me.

I WISH I HAD SOMEONE TO LOVE ME

First verse & Chorus:

I wish I had someone to love me,
Someone to call me his own,Someone to sleep with me nightly,
I weary of sleeping alone.

Meet me tonight in the moonlight,
Meet me tonight all alone,
I have a sad story to tell you
I'm telling it under the moon.

Tonight is our last night together,
Nearest and dearest must part,
The love that has bound us together
Is shredded and torn apart.

I wish I had ships on the ocean
Lined with silver and gold
Follow the ship that he sails in
A lad of 19 years-old.

I wish I had wings of a swallow,
Fly out over the sea
Fly to the arms of my true love
And bring him home safely to me.

Commentary copied from lyricstime.com

Apparently before this song went through the folk process, it was one of Vernon Dahlhart's country hits of the late 30's. It went under the title of "The Prisoner's Song" and a snatch of itis used at the end of the Bogart movie, Deadend. Sally Rogers learned this version from Lisa Null, who heard Irish singer Joe Heaney perform it..

Tomorrow I will be doing a country music day in the morning with old country favorites.

Nobody Knows me At all

I had a great activity planned for today which didn't really fly. I only had 16 in group today and most of them were the less cognitively alert residents, so we sang songs from the spiritual song book instead and I will save this group for the week I get back.

I have the song by the Weepies called

Nobody Knows Me At All"

When I was a child everybody smiled, nobody knows me at all
Very late at night and in the morning light, nobody knows me at all
Now I got lots of friends, yes, but then again, nobody knows me at all
Kids and a wife, it's a beautiful life, nobody knows me at all
And oh when the lights are low Oh with someone
I don't knowI don't give a damn, I'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all
Ah, what can you do? There's nobody like you. Nobody knows me at all
I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal, nobody knows me at all
Very late at night and in the morning light, nobody knows me at all
Nobody knows me, nobody knows me, nobody knows me at allody knows me at all"

I planned to alter the line with Damn in it to be sure I didn't offend anyone. My plan was for Social Wellness to get to know folks better and right a song about how we can all know each other. I don't know if I will use the same tune or a different tune, but it seems like a great group...only I will be doing it another day.

Spiritual Song Book

I have spent the last two days putting together a Spiritual Song Book with my residents at both facilities. It went very well, except that at one facility I have a Jewish resident that I have been unable to find music for. I have since come up wtih a few suggestions that I need to explore, but I have found a few more songs to add just for her.