Lyrics
(Folk song)
All around the kitchen with a cock-a-doodle-doo (repeat)
And you stop like this
With a cock-a-doodle-doo
Put your hands on your hips
With a cock-a-doodle-doo
Let your right foot slip
With a cock-a-doodle-doo
And you stop like this
With a cock-a-doodle-doo
Movement
Formation: Students stand in a circle. One student is the Leader.
- Measures 1-5 – Hold hands and walk to the right. Stop on the word “stop.”
- Hands on hips
- Right foot slides on the floor toward the center of the circle
- “Stop like this” – Leader does a motion that the group copies.
See also
- Activities: movement
- Dynamics: loud & soft
- Harmony: I IV chords
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:
- Scale: blues
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody


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