Lyrics
(Folk song)
Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon
Sally go round the sunshine
Every afternoon.
Boom! (or Oh! or Woo!)
Game
Formation: Students stand in a circle holding hands.
Students sing and circle right. Oh “Boom! (or Oh! or Woo!) students stop and jump slightly. The next time they sing the song and circle left.
When singing in a round, have students stand in concentric circles. The middle circle starts the round after the outer circle.
See also
- Subjects: sun
- Activities: circle singing games
- Harmony: canons / ostinati / Orff arrangements / one chord / partner songs
- Melody: tonic triad
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
/ 
/ 
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: The Singing Game, Iona & Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1985
YouTube
- Printable & Digital Visuals
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
