Lyrics - Akan
(Folk song from Ghana)
Sansa kroma
Ne na woo aw
Che che kokoma
(repeat)
Pronunciation:
sah-sah kroh-mah nee nay woo aw-chay chay koh-koh mah (The “n” in “sansa” is not pronounced.)
English Translation - Sansa the hawk
Sansa, the hawk
You are an orphan
And so you snatch up baby chicks
Rock Passing Game
Students sit in a circle and pass a rock.
Version 1 – Beat 1 of each measure, students pick up the rock. Beat 3 of each measure, students pass the rock in front of the person to their right.
See also
- Country: Ghana
- Activity: passing games
- Form: call & response / AB / ABA (see below)
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: solo singing / tonic triad
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:
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- Scale: major
- Source: Let Your Voice Be Heard! Songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe, Abraham Kobena Adzinyah, Dumisani Maraire, Judith Cook Tucker, 1986
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- Printable & Digital Visuals
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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