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: names / mail carriers / morning
- Type: nursery rhyme
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: Old Surrey Singing Games & Skipping-rope Rhymes, Curwen, 1909
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
