Lyrics
(Folk song)
I wish I was a little bird,
I’d fly up in a tree,
I’d sit and sing my sad little song,
Spoken
But I can’t stay here by myself!
I wish I was a little fish,
I’d swim way down in the sea,
I’d sit and sing my sad little song,
Spoken
But I can’t stay here by myself!
Recorder Notes G, A, B, C, D’
See also
- Subjects: bird / fish / emotions
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentachord
- Rhythm:
- Timbre: voices
- Tones: s,drmfs
- Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcout Brace and Company, 1927
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