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This was probably chanted / sung as butter was being churned. (source)
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Churn butter churn,*
Come butter come,
Peter standing at the gate
Waiting for a butter cake,
Come butter come.
*Many versions say “come butter come” in the first line also.
Recorder Notes E, G, A
See also
- Subject: food
- Harmony: chords I & IV
- Melody: mi so la / E,G,A
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: tritonic
- Tones: msl
- Source of lyrics / Source of melody
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
