Lyrics
(Folk song)
Dollar, dollar you must wander
From the one hand to the other
Is it fair, is it fair
To keep poor [student] sitting there?
Coin Passing Game
Formation: Students sit in a circle and one student (“It”) sits in the middle with eyes closed (for the first time sung only).
Students sing the song while passing a coin around the circle. If they don’t have the real coin, they pretend to pass a coin. Students sing the name of “It” in the last measure. After the first time singing, “It” can start to watch the students pass. Sing the song a second time, and then “It” can guess who has the coin. Whoever is caught with the coin becomes the new “It.”
See also
- Activity: passing games
- Harmony: I, IV, V / Orff / ostinati
- Melody: low so / so / la
- Meter: 4
- Scale: hexachord
- Timbre: Boomwhackers
- Tones: s,drmfsl
- German version: Ringlein Ringlein du musst wandern
YouTube
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- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
This is really similar to a song I learned student teaching that I am having a hard time locating – Do you know anything about a variant of this called “Rock, Rock” I have found the lyrics in Girl Scout song manuals, but cannot figure out any more history.
No, I haven’t heard of that one. Good luck locating it!