If All the Seas Were One Sea Lyrics
One huge sea, one huge tree, one huge axe and one huge man. Put them together and you get the biggest splash in the nursery.
If All the Seas Were One Sea
If all the seas were one sea,
What a great sea that would be!
And if all the trees were one tree,
What a great tree that would be!
And if all the axes were one axe,
What a great axe that would be!
And if all the men were one man,
What a great man he would be!
And if the great man took the great axe,
And cut down the great tree,
And let it fall into the great sea,
What a splish splash that would be!
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- Type
- Mother Goose
- Tune
- Spoken rhyme
- Best for ages
- 3 to 8 years
Hand Motions and Actions
| When you sing | Do this |
|---|---|
| If all the seas were one sea | Spread your arms as wide as you can. |
| And if all the trees were one tree | Stretch up tall like a giant tree. |
| And cut down the great tree | Swing an imaginary axe. |
| What a splish splash that would be! | Clap your hands together hard and wave them like spray. |
What Does If All the Seas Were One Sea Mean?
The rhyme imagines everything in the world joined into one enormous version: one sea, one tree, one axe and one man. Then it puts them together, and the giant tree crashes into the giant sea. The fun is in the build-up and the big noisy ending.
History and Origin
The rhyme is printed in The Real Mother Goose (1916), with the word great printed in italics every time so readers would say it louder. Older English collections have similar versions, and children have always enjoyed rhymes that grow bigger and bigger toward a crash.
Learning Activities
- Get bigger: say "great" a little louder each time.
- Splash test: drop a big stone and a small pebble into a bucket of water and compare the splashes.
- New verses: what if all the cats were one cat? Invent more.