Lyrics
(Scottish folk song)
Oh there were two sailors sailing on the sea,
If you want to choose a partner you’ve got to choose me.
Oh wishy washy, wishy washy, wishy washy woo,
If you want to choose a partner you’ve got to choose me.
Game
Formation: Students stand in a circle (holding hands) with two students (partners) standing in the middle).
Students in the circle walk around while singing. Partners in the center put their hands on each others’ shoulders and dance with their feet out like rag dolls. At the end, each of them grab another student from the circle to take their place, and they join the circle as the songs begins again.
See also
- Subject: sailors
- Activities: circle singing games
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: repeated tones / re / mi / descending major pentascale
- Meter: 12/8
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: The Singing Game, Iona & Peter Opie, Oxford University Press, 1985
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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