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
- Form: AB / ABA (see below)
- Harmony: ostinati / rounds / Orff arrangements / chords I & V
- Meter: 3 / duple & triple
- Rhythm:
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- Scale: pentatonic (version 1)
- Tones: drmsl
- Sources: Version 1 – World of Music, Grade 8, Silver Burdett Company, 1988 / Version 2 – Book of a Thousand Songs, Albert Ernest Wier · 1918
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