Lyrics
(Folk song)
Come through the sawmill, sawmill, sawmill,
Come through the sawmill all the day long.
This is the way you build a bridge, build a bridge, build a bridge,
This is the way you build a bridge all day long.
Movement
Formation: Students stand in two lines with partners facing each other.
- Measures 1-4 = Partners hold each others’ wrists and do a sawing motion back and forth.
- Measures 5-8 = Partners put hands up and form an arch. The partners at the front of each line walk under the bridge and join the lines at the end.
See also
- Subjects: lumbering / building
- Activity: arch game
- Form: AB
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: so / la
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: ties
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: drmfsld’
- Source: Library of Congress
- similar song: This is the Way You Build a Bridge
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
