
On October 17, 2018, Singapore Post released a colorful series dedicated to children's songs.
Designer Andy Koh created very colorful stamps with unusual pictures. Each stamp illustrates one of the children's songs or counting rhymes that are popular with young children in Singapore.
Moreover, the stamps are grouped in a very interesting way: they come in pairs by denominations of 1st Local and 70 s. Each pair is dedicated to songs in one of the 4 languages used in Singapore. The first pair is Chinese rhymes about a little donkey and two tigers, the second pair is Malay stories about a stork and a frog, the third pair is Indian songs about a rooster and an elephant, and the last pair is English songs about Old MacDonald's farm and a black sheep.
The fourth stamp in the series is dedicated to the English song "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". This is a cheerful rhythmic song about a farmer named MacDonald and the animals that live on his farm. The song teaches small children to remember different animals and learn how they "talk": each verse mentions a new pet. According to this song, old MacDonald has chickens, geese, sheep, pigs, cats, dogs, cows and, of course, horses on his farm.
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a horse, E-I-E-I-O
With a "neigh, neigh" here and a "neigh, neigh" there
Here a "neigh" there a "neigh"
Everywhere a "neigh, neigh"
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
By the way, in the English version, the sounds that animals make are not at all like the ones we are used to. For example, English ducks croak (quack quack), dogs say "woof woof", sheep bleat not "baa" but "baa", and horses, instead of the "e-go-go" we are accustomed to from nursery rhymes, say something incomprehensible like neigh neigh and only cows behave decently and moo the same in both Russian and English.
In addition, a booklet with a small sheet containing all the stamps in the series was issued by the post office. On the first day of the stamps' release, the first day of cancellation was carried out.
Source: www.singpost.com
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