Lyrics
(Folk song)
1. Yonder she comes and it’s howdy howdy do,
Oh where have you been since the last that I met you?
2. Rise you up, my lady (gentleman),
Present to me your hand,
I know you are a pretty girl (handsome man)
The prettiest in the land.
Recorder notes: D, E, G, A, B, D’
See also
- Subject: hello
- Form: call & response
- Harmony: chords I V
- Melody: so-mi / solo singing / D,E,G,A,B,D’ / C,D,F,G,A,C’
- Meter: 2
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: s,l,drms
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
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