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Hop-tu-naa is a Celtic festival celebrated on the Isle of Man on October 31. It marks the beginning of Samhain, a Gaelic holiday celebrating the end of harvest and beginning of winter. (source)
Lyrics
(Folk song from the Isle of Man)
Refrain
Hop-tu-Naa,
My mother’s gone away,
And she won’t be back until the morning.
Jinny the Witch flew over the house,
To fetch the stick to lather the mouse. Refrain
See also
- Country: Isle of Man
- Subject: Hop-tu-Naa / family
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: I, IV, V
- Melody: mi, so, la / high do / repeated tones
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsld’
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
