
Lyrics
(American folk song)
Trot Old Joe, trot Old Joe,
You ride better’n any horse I know.
Trot Old Joe, trot Old Joe,
You’re the best horse in the country-o.
Whoa Joe!
Walk Old Joe…
Gallop Old Joe…
Trot slow Joe…
Trot fast Joe…
Movement
Act out the lyrics.
See also
- Subject: horses
- Activities: movement
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I & V
- Melody: low so & low la / D,E,G,A,B
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
/
/ steady beat
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tempo: fast & slow
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: Silver Burdett Music, Book 1, General Learning Corporation, 1974
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Horse trotting at normal speed
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