Lyrics
(Traditional chant)
The cat’s got the measles, the measles, the measles,
The cat’s got the measles, whatever shall we do?
We’ll send for the doctor, the doctor, the doctor,
We’ll send for the doctor, and he’ll know what to do!
See also
- Subjects: doctors / cats
- Harmony: ostinati /Â Orff arrangements /Â one chord
- Melody: so-mi / E,G / A,C,D’
- Meter: 6/8 / duple & triple
- Rhythm: steady beat
- Timbre: chants / voices
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- Chant (6/8 and 4/4 version-with syncopation), Chant with 2 rhythm ostinati, New tune with so-mi melody (recorder notes EG), Orff arrangement, Lesson ideas (voices, steady beat, meter, rhythm, harmony)
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