Hit the Rojak

Go tell Aunt Rhodey the preschoolers have a new favorite song!  They learned it in music class and sang it for me at the lunch table, over and over!  This is their take on it:

Hit the Rojak and don't ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more.
Hit the Rojak and don't ya come back no more.
What you say?







I've yet to discover the preschoolers' ideas about the mysterious "Rojak" and why we should hit it.  We don't hit at our school!

Wikipedia suggests that "Rojak" is "a traditional fruit and vegetable dish commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. The term is also used as a colloquial expression for an eclectic mix, much like this collage of a blog.

• "Hit the Road, Jack" is a song written by Percy Mayfield and made famous by Ray Charles in 1961.

• Rogaine is an over-the-counter product that was originally a hair-raising side effect of minoxidil, a prescription for treating high blood pressure.

• Your vehicle or laptop computer may have a Lojack transmitter hidden inside to help police track and recover it.

We learn so many things as kids, some the hard way, some useful for a lifetime.  Learning to snap my fingers was a big effort requiring much practice, but I couldn't really listen to "Hit the Rojak" without this skill. I never did learn to carry a tune in a bucket or skip rocks worth beans.

Some other exciting skills:

1. Learning to wink
2. Learning to whistle
3. Cluck tongue
4. Twiddle thumbs
5. Here is the church, here is the steeple
6. Wiggle ears
7. Roll dice
8. Shuffle cards and deal
9. Be the banker in Monopoly
10. Tighten to the right, loosen to the left
11. Stop a nosebleed
12. Do the Charleston Bees Knees  

And now before hitting the road to work... Oh, wait!


Oh won’t you stay just a little bit longer
Oh please, please stay just a little bit more

Now the promoter don’t mind
And the roadies don’t mind
If we take a little time
And we leave this all behind and sing
One more song




Oh, yeah.  And one more:


Step out the back, Jack.
Make a new plan, Stan.
No need to read Corduroy!

© 2011 Nancy L. Ruder