Our Club Lyrics
Dot, Bub and the speaker want a club for just the three of them. A Reading Club will not work because none of them can read, and a Sewing Club will not work because none of them can sew, so they make it a Playing Club and play until tea time.
Our Club
We're going to have the mostest fun!
It's going to be a club;
And no one can belong to it
But Dot and me and Bub.
We thought we'd have a Reading Club,
But couldn't 'cause, you see,
Not one of us knows how to read -
Not Dot nor Bub nor me.
And then we said a Sewing Club,
But thought we'd better not;
'Cause none of us knows how to sew -
Not me nor Bub nor Dot.
And so it's just a Playing Club,
We play till time for tea;
And, oh, we have the bestest times!
Just Dot and Bub and me.
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- Type
- Poems for Children
- Written by
- Carolyn Wells
- Tune
- Cheerful and sure of itself, like a child announcing a plan
- Best for ages
- 3 to 7 years
Hand Motions and Actions
| When you sing | Do this |
|---|---|
| But Dot and me and Bub. | Hold up three fingers and wiggle them for the three friends. |
| We play till time for tea; | Pretend to hold a teacup and take a sip. |
What Does Our Club Mean?
The joke is that the children think of grown-up kinds of club and then talk themselves out of each one, with perfectly good reasons. A Reading Club is no use when not one of us knows how to read. A Sewing Club is out because none of us knows how to sew. The speaker, Dot and Bub are left with the one thing everyone can do, so it is just a Playing Club, and nobody else is allowed in.
The words mostest and bestest are made-up superlatives of the kind small children use, and they give the poem a young voice. The verses are tidy: club rhymes with Bub, see with me, not with Dot and tea with me. The point of the poem is gentle: a club is whatever the members can do together.
History and Origin
Carolyn Wells's The Jingle Book was copyrighted in 1899, with the type set up in October 1899, and it was reprinted in November 1899 and in June 1901.
Learning Activities
- Start a club: choose a name for a club of two or three and decide together what the members can all do.
- Can we?: list what each person can do and circle the things that everyone can do. That is the club's activity.
- Club badge: make a badge from card and string and write the club's name on it.
- Tea time: end the club meeting with a pretend tea party, as the children in the poem do.