Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters is scored for a two-part choir (comprising children of ALL AGES), soloists, and piano accompaniment.

The downloadable PDF allows you to make as many copies as needed for your choir (one price for the whole choir).

It’s roughly 3:15-3:30 in duration and was commissioned for the 20th Anniversary of the Piedmont Choirs, Robert Geary, Director.

The text is composed entirely of (believed to be in the public domain) tongue twisters.

It is highly encouraged to try these with your audience in advance.

In order of appearance (many with repetitions), they are:

Salty broccoli.

Toy boat.
Missus Smith’s Fish Sauce Shop.
She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
Six slippery, slimy snails slid slowly seaward.
Seven slick, slimy snakes slowly slithered southward.
Suddenly swerving… seven small swans swam silently southward.
Seeing six swift sailboats sailing sedately seaward.
Six sharp smart sharks.
Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.
A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
There was a young fisher named Fischer who fished for a fish in a fissure. The fish with a grin pulled the fisherman in; now they’re fishing the fissure for Fischer.
Argyle Gargoyle.
Buckets of bug blood.
Pete’s Pa Pete poked to the pea patch to pick a peck of peas for the poor pink pig in the pine hole pig pen.
Blake’s black bike’s back brake bracket block broke.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts, but still insists he sees the ghosts.