🛒 Sing, Count, and Shop!

What Shall We Buy in the Market? is a catchy FREE primary school song written specifically for younger children. With its playful melody and repetitive structure, this fun song introduces children to familiar foods found in a market while naturally reinforcing counting skills. It’s a brilliant way to combine music, early maths, and everyday vocabulary in one engaging activity.

As the song counts down from 5, children practise numbers in reverse order without even realising they’re learning, making it ideal for Early Years and KS1 classrooms.

🎶 What’s Included in Your Song Pack

This free digital song pack gives you everything you need for quick, confident teaching:

• Clear, high quality backing track

• Sheet music, including chords and melody

• Simple, memorable lyrics that are easy for young children to follow

Perfect for whole-class singing, small-group work, or quick maths and music warm-ups.

💡 Music Education Benefits

• Supports early pitch control through a limited vocal range

• Develops counting and sequencing skills through music

• Encourages listening and memory using repetition

• Strengthens cross-curricular learning between music, maths, and vocabulary

💛Why Teachers Love What Shall We Buy in the Market?

Teachers love how this song keeps younger children engaged while reinforcing key early learning skills. It’s quick to learn, fun to sing, and works perfectly as a lively classroom activity or as part of a maths or topic-based lesson.

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Included in your song pack:

1. Audio file of backing track with instruments playing the melody in mp3 format
2. Song words in PDF format
3. Sheet music in PDF format
4. PowerPoint of song words

Simply add this item to your basket and then proceed to checkout. YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED.
All the files will appear in your account ready to download with one click as a compressed ‘zip’ file and you’ll have everything you need to get singing straight away!

What Shall We Buy In The Market? – Lyrics

1
What shall we buy in the market?
There are lots of things to see.
We can put five chops in our basket
That we bought from the butcher’s stall

2
What shall we buy in the market?
Here are vegetables we have found.
We can put four carrots in our basket
That have grown underneath the ground.

3
What shall we buy in the market?
There are fruit stall here galore.
We can put three apples in our basket
And then come back next week for more.

4
What shall we buy in the market?
There is such a lot to see.
We can put two fish in our basket
And then have them for our tea.

5

What shall we buy in the market?
We can see the baker’s stall.
We can put one loaf in our basket
So there’s plenty of food for all.

© A M Dilkes 2013 primarysongs.co.uk