My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean

I love our Quiet/Rocking Time in my classes each week (in Imagine That it’s about once a month.) Sharing a special rocking time with your child helps them learn how to hear, feel, and see the beat. It is a whole-body experience: they hear the beat, feel the beat, and see the beat as you rock together. It also builds their self-esteem, soothes, provides rhythmic motion, and promotes muscular strength, control, and balance.

“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” has been a great snuggle song in Our Time lately. It is a traditional Scottish song, but the origins are a bit unclear. Some think it is about Charles Edward Stuart, who was more commonly referred to as Bonnie Prince Charlie.

I love it when the kids in class sing along with the song! Some of the wonderful renditions I’ve heard recently are: “My Body Lies Over the Ocean”, and even “My Mommy Lies Over the Sea”. I like that we can “bring back my mommy to me!”

Warner Brothers took it one funny thought further and came up with “My Bunny Lies Over the Sea.” (Sort of a rabbit trail, here…) Most people can't resist a fluffy bunny, but I still think one of my favorite rabbits of all time is Bugs Bunny! Anyway, I found the cartoon for you on YouTube – so here you go!