
Lyrics
(American folk song)
How old are you, my pretty little miss?
How old are you, my honey?”
She answered me with a tee hee hee,
“I’ll be sixteen this Sunday.”
Refrain
The yaddle laddle laddle um daisy,
The yaddle laddle laddle um yaddle laddle laddle um,
Yaddle laddle laddle um daisy.
Hand-Clapping / Circle Dance
See below.
See also
- Activities: dances / hand-clapping
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I IV V
- Melody: high & low / solo singing
- Rhythm: quarter & eighth notes / sixteenth notes
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
YouTube
- printable & digital rhythm visuals


- Song with chords, Adapted version, Circle dance (2 versions), Hand-clapping ideas, Lesson idea for Melody (High & Low), Rhythm (game for Quarter & Eighth Notes), Orff Arrangement (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen


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