Version 1
Info
Benjamin Franklin quoted this in his Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1732. However, a version of this saying has been found in print as far back as 1496. (source)
Lyrics
(Folk tune, English Proverb)
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise
Version 2
See also
- songs in 3
- Meter / Time Signature resources
- songs with dotted half notes
- songs with dotted quarter /eighth notes
- songs with ostinati
- Form AB
- Form ABA
- songs with duple & triple versions / sections
- pentatonic songs
- rounds
- Orff arrangements
- recorder DEF#GAB songs
- source for Version 1 – World of Music, Grade 8, Silver Burdett Company, 1988
- source for Version 2 – Book of a Thousand Songs, Albert Ernest Wier · 1918
 (or available for purchase here)
- Digital & Printable Rhythm Visuals
- Song with chords (2 versions, 2 keys), Lesson ideas for Rhythm (dotted half notes, dotted quarter / eighth notes), Melody (pentatonic, do-mi-so), Harmony (duet, ostinato, round), Form (AB, ABA), Meter in 3 vs. 4, Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the songs
