Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. There was a pig went out to dig,
Christ-a-mas Day, Christ-a-mas Day,
here was a pig went out to dig,
Christ-a-mas Day in the morning.
2. There was a cow went out to plow…
3. There was a crow went out to sow…
4. There was a sheep went out to reap…
Ask students to write their own rhyming verses.
Change the tune to I Saw Three Ships, which you might find easier for kids to sing.
See also
- Subjects: Christmas / pigs
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords i, V, VII
- Melody: high & low / solo singing / ascending minor pentascale
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: natural minor
- Source: American Sampler, Shirley McRae, 1985
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- Melody Student Sheets
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
