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
- Activities: passing games / movement
- Form: call & response / AB / ABA
- Melody: solo singing / tonic triad
- Rhythm: quarter notes & rests / half notes
- 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 Rhythm Visuals
- Song with chords, 2nd version of song with half notes, Circle movement, Stone passing game – 2 versions, Lesson ideas for Form (Call & Response, AB | ABA), Rhythm (quarter notes & rests, half notes) (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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