Fun with your kids this summer

Charles “Chip” Esten (better known as Deacon Claybourne from TV series Nashville) was asked by his writers to come up w/ a song (in just 3-days) he could perform on the show (season 6) as a tune his daddy had once taught him.

The result is the fabulous, Itty, Bitty, Ditty, https://youtu.be/ZmMz1UQu0u0

Play it and sing it with your kids–ask them to do the tea kettle whistling part too.

Here’re the words:

My grandaddy used to widdle

While my daddy played the fiddle

In the middle of the front porch swing

And my sister used to giggle at a silly little riddle

‘Bout some brittle and a diamond ring

While my mama fixed the bittles on her little kitchen grittle

You could hear them as the tea kettle sing

While my grandaddy widdled

And my daddy played the fiddle

In the middle of a front porch swing

Here I go

My grandaddy used to widdle

While my daddy played the fiddle

In the middle of the front porch swing

And my…

Patrick Kerr and Bruce Firestone sing Chip Esten’s Itty Bitty Ditty for Bruce’s grandsons, CJ and Godric…

Pat is a fine singer, songwriter, musician, composer and union man (red seal boilermaker).

Prof Bruce can’t sing worth a bean, but he adores his grandchildren…

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