I Got a Letter This Morning

Lyrics

I got a letter this morning,
Oh yes,
I got a letter this morning,
Oh yes.

Change the lyrics to class instructions such as:

• “Welcome everybody…”  – Class echoes “Oh yes.”
• “Now get out your papers”
• “Clean up your supplies…”
• “Front row now line up…”

See also

• call & response songs
• minor / modal songs
• songs with sixteenth-eighth-sixteenth note patterns
• source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948

YouTube

Extras for Plus Members

• Song with chords (PDF)
• MIDI file
• Listen

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