Lyrics
(African American folk song)
All around the maypole, maypole, maypole,
All around the maypole,
Now Miss Sally won’t you shout for joy?
Shout for joy, shout for joy, shout for joy,
And now Miss Sally won’t you shout for joy?
And now Miss Sally won’t you bow?
Game
Formation: Students stand in a circle with hands joined around one person in the middle (“It”).
“It” skips while students around walk in the circle. “It” chooses one student to jump or dance with.
See also
- Culture: African American
- Subjects: May Day / spring / emotions
- Activity: circle game
- Harmony: chords I, ii, V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: hexatonic
- Tones: s,l,t,drm
- 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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