Lyrics
(Folk song)
Just from the kitchen, shoo-li-loo,
With a handful of biscuits, shoo-li-loo,
I know you don’t like ’em, shoo-li-loo,
But you can’t do without ’em, shoo-li-loo,
Please Mr. Johnson, shoo-li-loo,
Fly away over yonder, shoo-li-loo
Circle Game
Formation: Students stand or sit in a circle. The Leader (student or teacher) sings the Call, and the class sings the Response. The Leader sings a student’s name instead of “Mr. Johnson,” and that student “flies” to join the other side of the circle. (If the students are standing, the student can just find a spot to stand between two students. If the students are sitting, have two students create an empty space between them where that student can sit.
See also
- Subjects: name
- Activities: circle singing games
- Form: call and response
- Melody: repeated tones / low do / G,A,B
- Rhythm: steady beat / syncopation / dotted quarter & eighth note
- Timbre: voices
- Source: Library of Congress
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- Song with chords, Lesson ideas for Call & Response, Voices, Rhythm (steady beat, syncopation, tie, dotted quarter/eighth note pattern), Melody (repeated tones, recorder notes G,A,B), Improvisation (PDF)
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