children's songs

Ok, so this goes in the category of "something we were planning to do in the next two weeks but didn't get the chance to..."

As you most likely already know, every 25 minutes on the dig was "water break" time--the alarm on Dr. Schuler's watch would beep and someone would yell "WATER BREAK!" and everyone was supposed to have something to drink. Dr. Schuler wanted to make sure we were drinking enough water while working under the hot sun. He told us that we should have to use the bathroom while on the dig, and if we didn't ever go to the bathroom, then we must not be drinking enough.

Well, the very first day on the site, Stephanie and I were making up songs about the dig...singing about picking and moving buckets and getting dirty and anything else we could think of. We were using old songs we sang as kids for the tune and just putting different words to it. One such song was the "Water Break" song. Dr. Pratt told us her favorite song when she was younger was "Frere Jacques." The big plan we had for this song was that we were going to teach it to everyone except Dr. Schuler. Then, at a scheduled time, when a water break was called, everybody would stop their work and start singing the song...hopefully in order to receive the so desired eye roll and head shake from Dr. Schuler. So, if you can read the following words to the tune of "Frere Jacques," you can imagine how entertaining it would've been...

Are you peeing? Are you peeing?
You should be! You should be!
Better drink more water, better drink more water!
Take a break. Take a break.

I'm sorry you never got to hear us sing to you, Dr. Schuler...I'm sure you must be terribly upset about it!