Lyrics
(Canadian folk song)
When I was one I ate a bun,
Going over the sea.
I jumped aboard the sailorman’s ship,
The sailorman said to me:
“Going over, going under,
Stand at attention like a soldier
With a one, two, three!
When I was two I buckled my shoe…
When I was three I banged my knee…
When I was four I shut the door…
When I was five I learned to jive…
When I was six I picked up sticks…
When I was seven I went to heaven…
When I was eight I learned to skate…
When I was nine I climbed a vine…
When I was ten I caught a hen…
See also
- Country: Canada
- Subject: counting
- Harmony: chords I IV V
- Melody: tonic triad / D,E,F#,G,A,B,D’
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: hexatonic
- Tones: s,l,t,drms
- Source: Silver Burdett Music, Book 2, Silver Burdett Company, 1981
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