Lyrics
(Folk song)
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.
Now come through, Sally, Sally, Sally,
Come through, Sally all day long.
Game
Formation: Students stand in two lines forming an arch with their arms up and hands clasped with partners’ hands.
As the song begins, the partners at the end drop hands and walk single file under the arches until they emerge at the end of the line. They form an arch, and the next partners walk under the arches. (As the line progresses, it does not have to be straight.)
See also
- Subject: arch games
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: tetratonic
- Tones: drms
- Source: Library of Congress
- Similar song: Come Through the Sawmill
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
