
Lyrics
(American folk song)
Down the road and across the creek,
Can’t get a letter but once a week.
Ida Red, Ida Blue,
I got stuck on Ida too.
See also
- Subject: colors
- Form: AAB
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: tonic triad / re
- Meter: 2
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: 150 American Folk Songs to sing read and play, Peter Erdei, 1974
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody


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