St Martin's / Lantern Fest Songs #1 : Today is St Martin's Night

For anyone teaching English in Austria and Germany the Laternenfest (Lantern Festival) is a bit of a pain.  We don't have anything like this festival so there is a huge lack of songs you can sing.  Which means you can't really join in with this really pretty event.

There are only so many times you can sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star before you and the kids get bored.  Also the parents will think you are lazy.   However over the years I have pieced together some songs for the fest and also written some of my own.

Here is one I wrote this year especially for Lantern Fest.  Today is St Martin's Night can be sung with actions.  The children (maybe better with the older ones) can raise their lanterns high, low, to the left, right etc.  You will have to practice this before hand but it may be worth it!

The lyrics complete with the guitar chords can be found here.   The chords are pretty easy with only G C and D7.  You can listen to a recording of Today is St Martin's Night below.  A reminder : This is just me being recorded by a phone/computer so it is not the best quality but hopefully enough for you to hear the melody.

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