Lyrics
(American folk song)
Snake baked a hoecake* and set a frog to watch it,
And the frog got a-nodding and a lizard came and stole it.
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed Nanny, you,
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed Nanny you.
*A hoecake is made of cornmeal, originally baked on the blade of a hoe, similar to a pancake. (source)
Optional: Students could sing “pancake” instead of “hoecake” if they are not familiar with that word.
See also
- Subjects: snakes / frogs / baking / food
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: repeated tones
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Sources: Animal Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Co, 1950 / Sing It Yourself,Louise Larkins Bradford, Alfred Music, 1978
YouTube
- Song with chords (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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