Lyrics
(Folk song from Denmark)
Thief, yes thief, that is your name,
For you stole my little friend.
But I hope to get another,
I shall get another friend.
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
Tra la la la la.
Dance
Formation: Students stand in a double circle with partners walking side by side. (Optional: students hold hands, either only one hand or both, similar to a promenade.)
One student with no partner (Thief #1) stands in the middle of the circle.
- Section A – When song begins, Thief #1 taps a person on the shoulder, and that person (Thief #2) must move into the center of the circle, while Thief #1 takes that person’s partner and begins to walk in the circle. Thief #2 taps someone else and takes their partner. This continues throughout Section A.
- Section B – The Thief stands in the middle while the others do this pattern four times: Pat, clap, high five partner (twice)
See also
- Country: Denmark
- Activities: dances
- Form: AB
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I & V
- Melody: tonic triad, dominant triad
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
 / syncopation - Scale: major
- songs with Source: Google book
or purchase here (printables only)
- Song with chords, Lesson ideas for Form AB, Rhythm (syncopation & eighth notes), Orff Arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
