Lyrics
(Folk song)
Did you ever ever ever in your long-legged life
Meet a long-legged sailor with a long-legged wife?
No, I never ever ever in my long-legged life
Meet a long-legged sailor with a long-legged wife.
Did you ever ever ever in your short-legged life…
…knock-kneed…
…bow-legged…
…cross-legged…
Use it to teach or review eighth notes and quarter notes.
Recorder Notes: G, A, B
See also
- Subjects: silly / sailors
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I V
- Melody: do, re, mi /Â G,A,B
- Rhythm: quarter & eighth notes /Â half notes
- Source: The Singing Game, Iona & Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1985
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- Song with chords in 2 keys, Hand clapping motions, Lesson ideas for Rhythm (half, quarter, eighth notes) & Melody (do, re, mi | GAB), Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
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