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Hobhàn, Hobhàn

Song type: Calm
Language: Gaelic
Age group: 0-2, 3-5
Audience: Baby, Children, Pre-school, Toddler
Topics: Bookbug, Gaelic

How to use this song with babies

Rock your baby gently and hum along if you don’t know the words so they can feel the vibration.

How to use this song with toddlers

This song is great to sing at the end of a Bookbug Session to calm and soothe everyone.

How to use this song with 3 to 5-year olds

This song introduces wee ones to some lovely Gaelic vocabulary to describe the different dogs.

Hobhàn, Hobhàn lyrics

Hobhàn, hobhàn, ars' an cù beag, (Hobhan, hobhan, said the wee dog)

's minig a bha sinn ars' an cù bàn. (Often we were, said the fair coated dog)

Siubhal na h-àirigh ars' an cù beag (Travelling the pasture said the wee dog)

Hobhàn, hobhàn, ars' an cù ban. (Hobhan, hobhan, said the fair coated dog)