Dinosaur Songs for Grade Schools

[Amado Narvaez <anarvaez@umd5.umd.edu>]

Can any grade school educators on the list cite for me the authors of 
these songs and the book/magazine that they came from:
        1. Oh, where, oh where did the dinosaurs go?
        2. Dino Laid an Egg

Our kindergarteners do a dinosaur show every year, and in an effort to 
make the unit more educational (rather than just cute), I have written 
lyrics that help the kids learn some basic dinosaur facts.

This one was a little too long for the kindergarteners, but maybe someone 
on the list can use it. Feel free to use it in a dinosaur show, but I 
would like to reserve book and recording rights. (The music for all the 
songs is from works in the public domain):

        How a Dinosaur Becomes a Fossil
        (to the tune of "Greensleeves")

A dinosaur -- perhaps T. rex -- is swept away in a flood.
The T. rex drowns and then downstream is cover up with mud.

First the flesh must rot away till nothing's left but bone.
Ages go by and they petrify, and finally turn to stone.

Tens of millions of years go by; erosion washes the earth away.
More millions of years go by till someone finds the bones one day.

Then the paleontologists -- both amateur and pro --
Will excavate the T. rex remains that some museum will show.

And people come from everywhere to see T. rex on display.
And in their minds they hear him roar -- a T. rex hunting prey!

        If you'd be interested in seeing any of the other (shorter) 
songs, let me know and I'll post them here or e-mail them.

----- Amado Narvaez
      anarvaez@umd5.umd.edu