Lyrics
(Folk song)
Old Aunt Kate she bake a cake,
She bake it ‘hind the garden gate.
She sift the meal, she gimme the dust,
She bake the bread, she gimme the crust,
She eat the meat, she gimme the skin,
And that’s the way she took me in.
Recorder Notes: G, A, B, C, D’
See also
- Subjects: family / food
- Harmony: I IV V chords
- Melody: G,A,B,C,D’
- Meter: 2
- Scale: pentachord
- Tempo: fast & slow
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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