Long Beach My Home Town
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Long Beach, Queen of The Western Shore
By Kathryn Dyer and Chas. Alfin (1928)
lyrics
California I’ll soon be returning
There’s no place haunts my mem’ry like you
For your bright sunlit skies I am yearning
And your flower beds sprinkled with dew
You’re an Eden I’ll always remember
And I dream of its charms night and day
Where the sun shines as bright in December
As it does in June or May
Long Beach, my home town,
Queen of the western shore
I have traveled around
And no place can compare to your climate so rare
Your bright harbor lights
Make a path on the silver sea
You’re the queen beach of sunny California
Long Beach, you’re home sweet home to me
Signal Hill like a bright starry kingdom
Stands alone as a monarch supreme
While the ships soaring high find a haven
In the port of an air pilot’s dream
On your long sandy strand hearts are lighter
And all care seems to vanish away
While the waves breaking soft seem to murmur
What my soul will always say
Long Beach, my home town,
Queen of the western shore
I have traveled around
And no place can compare to your climate so rare
Your bright harbor lights
Make a path on the silver sea
You’re the queen beach of sunny California
Long Beach, you’re home sweet home to me
Long Beach For Mine
Words and Music by Eddie Klein (1923)
lyrics
I’ve travelled through this USA
I’ve been from coast to coast
Perhaps I’ve been in your home town
Though I’m not one to boast
I want to tell you of a town
No limit to it’s reach
It’s not LA nor Frisco
Its little old Long Beach
Our front door is the ocean
Our side door, Signal Hill
Our back door, our industries
And our motto “I will”
So Lets all get together
For the sake of Old Lang Syne
And when someone asks
Where are you from
Shout Long Beach For Mine
There’s thousands coming ev’ry day
To this most wondrous place
They’re building houses overnight
To keep up with the pace
Our recreation park will be
Our playground and a peach
More reason we should tell folks
Of little old Long Beach
Our front door is the ocean
Our side door, Signal Hill
Our back door our industries
And our motto “I will”
So Lets all get together
For the sake of Old Lang Syne
And when someone asks
Where are you from
Shout Long Beach For Mine
Long Beach By The Sea
words and music by Miss Ula Kitchen (1918)
melody
harmony
melody and harmony together
lyrics
Long Beach Long Beach by the sea
There Virginia waits for me
How her eyes with love light beam
A queen among a thousand queens and
Where the breakers splash and play
Every Day’s a holiday
Life’s one loving melody
In Long Beach by the sea
Long Beach Long Beach by the sea
There Virginia waits for me
How her eyes with love light beam
A queen among a thousand queens and
Where the breakers splash and play
Every Day’s a holiday
Life’s one loving melody
In Long Beach by the sea
In Long Beach by the sea
In Long Beach by the sea
COLOR AND CREATE A STORY
Balloon ride
Print out and color the coloring page below. Once you have finished write a story, song or poem to go with the picture.
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Let’s Put on a show
Winter Wonderland
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costume and prop design crafts
Owl Mask
Butterfly Mask
Vintage Luggage Prop Craft
Roaring 20s Headband and Dapper Tux
headband Pattern Downloads
Click here to download the Roaring 20’s Headband pattern
tuxedo Pattern Downloads
Click here to download the Roaring 20’s Dapper Tuxedo pattern
If you do not have access to a printer to print out the pattern, follow the tutorial video below to make your own. Here are the supplies that you will need before you get started
- 3 pieces of paper
- Scissors
- Tape or glue
Freehand Headband Tutorial
Freehand Tuxedo Bib Tutorial
Graduation Cap
Learn a song
Click one of the songs below to start learning
Give My Regards To Broadway
by
George M. Cohan
Follow along with the guide vocals while reading the lyrics. Once you feel comfortable with the lyrics and melody, sing along with the instrumental track. Have fun!
with guide vocals
instrumental
lyrics
Give my regards to Broadway
Remember me to Herald Square
Tell all the gang at Forty-Second Street
That I will soon be there
Whisper of how I’m yearning
To mingle with the old time throng
Give my regards to old Broadway
And say that I’ll be there e’er long
Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag
written by
George Asaf
music by
Felix Powell
Follow along with the guide vocals while reading the lyrics. Once you feel comfortable with the lyrics and melody, sing along with the instrumental track. Have fun!
with guide vocals
instrumental
lyrics
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile
Don’t let your cheer and laughter hear the snag
Smile, kids, that’s the style!
What’s the use of worrying?
It never was worthwhile
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile
By The Beautiful Sea
by
Harry Carrol
and
Harold R. Atteridge
Follow along with the guide vocals while reading the lyrics. Once you feel comfortable with the lyrics and melody, sing along with the instrumental track. Have fun!
Part 1 (high voice)
Part 2 (middle voice)
Part 3 (low voice)
instrumental
lyrics
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
You and I, you and I, oh how happy we’ll be
When each wave comes a-rolling in, we will duck or swim
And we’ll float and fool around the water.
Over and under and then up for air
Pa is rich, ma is rich, so now what do we care?
I love to be beside your side, beside the sea,
beside the seaside, By the beautiful sea
tongue twisters
Make sure to start off saying them slowly, over annunciating all of your consonants and vowels. Once you get the hang of each one you can practice them at a faster pace. Have fun!
Pre-shrunk silk shirts
Eleven benevolent elephants
He threw three free throws
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.
rhythm practice
Here are some rhythms to practice at home. Each example has notes and a recording below to clap along with.
example 1
example 2
example 3
example 4
example 5
example 6
This and all of the other free programming that JBCT facilitates during the year is brought to you in part by grants from The Hermann Foundation, The Rudolph J. And Daphne A. Munzer Foundation, The Port of Long Beach and personal donations. The Jewel Box Children’s Theater Company is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization creating equitable theater and music programs that are accessible and inclusive for all children. We truly believe that the arts can ignite social change and help cast a brighter future for youth in our community. Please consider making a donation to help support our free summer camp program.
