“The Wheels on the Bus” is one of the most popular children’s songs known already in 1939.
On this page you can find Notes, Chords and Activities for the song, and a Printable PDF for free Download.
Piano Tutorial Video
Click on the button to watch a sing-along video and download a instrumental mp3 of this song for free.
Click on the button to watch a karaoke video and download a PDF file with lyrics to this song for free.
Sheet music with chords
To save this free music sheet of “The Wheels on the Bus” to your computer, right click (or tap and hold, on mobile devices) and choose “Save Image As…”.
Free Printable PDF with lyrics and sheet music
To download a ready-to-print PDF of this song for music activities with a music sheet, lyrics and a drawing for kids to paint, right click (or tap and hold) on the following link, then choose “Save link as…”.
“The Wheels on the Bus” free PDF download – Singing Bell
Teaching idea & activities
Songs like “Wheel on the Bus” are suitable for learning the chords of terminant and dominant. Teach the basic hand’s position on the piano or the guitar and repeat the follow sequence: tonic – tonic – dominant – tonic.
It is not necessary to have a score, just sing along with the children and make a sign when the chord changes.
If you have a glockenspiel, play the root note and the fifth instead of the whole chord (e.x. F – C, C – G) and accompany the song.
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