Lyrics
(Scottish folk tune, Lyrics anonymous)
On mules we find two legs behind,
And two we find before,
We stand behind before we find
What the two behind be for.
When we’re behind the two behind,
We find what these be for,
So stand before the two behind,
Behind the two before.
See also
- Subjects: silly / mules
- Harmony:Â chords I, IV, V
- Melody: tonic triad
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: Wee Sing Silly Songs, Pamela Conn Beall and Susan Hagen Nipp, Price Stern Sloan, 1982
- Same tune: Auld Lang Syne
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
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