Version 1
Lyrics
(Folk song)
See-saw 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)
See-saw 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.)
- Harmony:Â 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) /Â melodic 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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