Lyrics
(Scottish folk song)
I’m the wee Melodie Man,
The rumpty tumpty toddy man,
I always do the best I can
To follow the wee Melodie Man.
Game
Formation: Students sit in a circle with the Melodie Man in the middle. All students are imitating playing a musical instrument. At any time, the Melodie Man can imitate one of the instruments another student is pantomiming. When that person’s instrument is “taken,” that student needs to imitate a different instrument. If that student can’t think of an instrument to imitate quick enough, that student must become the new Melodie Man.
See also
- Country: Scotland
- Subject: instruments
- Activities: circle singing games
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: l,drmfs
- Source: Kerr’s Guild of Play Containing 49 Singing Games with Pianoforte Accompaniments, James S. Kerr, The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, 1923
- Similar song: Wee Falorie Man
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
