Version 1
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Seesaw sacradown,
Which is the way to London town?
One foot up and other foot down.
That is the way to London town.
Recorder notes E, G
Version 2
Version 3 - Minor in 4/4
Lyrics
(Melody by Arthur Whiting, publ. 1916, Lyrics Traditional)
Seesaw sacradown, which is the way to Boston town? (repeat)
One foot up and other foot down. That is the way to London town. (repeat)
See also
- Country: Northeastern states (U.S.)
- Type: nursery rhyme
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / one chord
- Melody: high & low / pentatonic / so-mi / E,G
- Meter: 6/8 / 4/4 & 6/8
- Scales: bitonic (version 1) / hexachord (version 2) / harmonic minor (version 3) / pentatonic (alternate version)
- Timbre: Boomwhackers
- Tones: ms (version 1) / drmfsl (version 2)
- Source: Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes & Lullabies,Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1985
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