This Song Has Bean Around Too Long

I’m singing Old MacDonald which is a nursery rhyme with farm animals and their sounds. My husband is joining the kids and me for the first time, and I pause to let him choose the animal.

Me: “And on that farm he had a…”

Husband: “Soybeans.”

Me: “Soybeans!?”

Husband: “My grandad owns a farm, and he grows soybeans; he should have them in the song.”

Me: “Soybeans don’t make a noise, you need something that makes a noise. What noise would soybeans make?”

Husband: *After thinking for a second.* “Whoosh?”

And so, with a whoosh whoosh here and a whoosh whoosh there, we had a new verse for the song.