Lyrics
(folk song)
Early in the morning
At eight o’clock
I can hear the postman
Knock, knock, knock
Up jumps (child’s name)
And goes to the door –
One letter, two letters, three letters, four!
See also
- Subjects: mail carriers / morning / names
- Activities: circle games / movement / solo singing (see ideas in member content below)
- Type: nursery rhyme
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: steady beat /
/ 
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: drmfsd’
- Source: Old Surrey Singing Games & Skipping-rope Rhymes, Curwen, 1909
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- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
