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
Lyrics
- more silly songs
- more do, re, mi songs
- more recorder GAB songs
- more songs with half notes
- more songs about sailors
- more songs with Orff arrangements
- more songs with chords I V
- more songs with quarter & eighth note activities/visuals
- source: The Singing Game, Iona & Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1985
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- Printable & Digital Rhythm Visuals
- 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
- Listen to the song
