
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Red are strawberries, redder than red roses
Heigh ho tra-la-la, redder than red roses
Red are strawberries, redder than red roses
Green the leaves are falling
Deep in forests, deeper than the ocean
Heigh ho tra-la-la, deeper than the ocean
Deep in forests, deeper than the ocean
Green the leaves are falling
See also
- Subjects: flowers / food / colors
- Harmony: canons / Orff arrangements
- Melody:Â melodic contour / ascending minor pentascale
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: l,t,drm
- Source: Making Music Your Own, Grade 6, Silver Burdett Company, 1965
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- Song with chords, Lesson ideas for Phrases, Melodic contour, Rhythm (Quarter, Eighth, Sixteenth notes), Orff Arrangement (PDF)
- MIDI file
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4 thoughts on “Red are Strawberries”
Hi, Beth! I’m researching this song and wondering who you got it from! Thanks!
Hi Janell! I found it in several places online. 🙂
I learned the song in 1964 in a teen church group
Red are strawberries
Redder than red roses
Hey ho fa la la redder than red roses
Red are strawberries
Green the leaves are growing
Hi. I was taught this song at school by Sister Therese Marcel in 1966. I also was taught that is was ‘green the leaves are growing’. I’ve never forgotten it!