Lyrics
(Melody by Domingo May & Serracant, publ. 1921, Lyrics by Nellie Poorman, from the Spanish)
Slowly creeping,
Snail, you must be sleeping.
Will you please to tell
How you made your dwelling?
Pretty spiral shell
Serves you very well.
See also
- Subject: snails
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Melody: descending major pentascale
- Meter: 2
- Scale: major
- Tempo: fast & slow
- Source: The Progressive Music Series for Basal Use in Primary, Intermediate, and Grammar Grades. Parker, Horatio William, Silver, Burdett, 1914
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
