Lyrics
(English folk song, adapted by Beth Thompson)
If the evening’s red and the morning’s gray,
It’s a sign of a bonny bonny day.
If the evening’s gray and the morning’s red,
The ewe and the lamb will go right to bed.
See also
- Country: England
- Subject: weather
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I & V
- Melody: skips / tonic triad /Â paper xylophones
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: The Music Hour, One-Book Course, Silver Burdett Company, publ 1932
- Printable & Digital Visuals
- Song with chords, Lesson ideas for Melody (Skips – Triad) (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
