Lyrics
(German folk tune, Traditional lyrics)
Thorn Rosa was a pretty child, pretty child, pretty child,
Thorn Rosa was a pretty child, pretty child.
She lived up in a castle high…
One day there came an ugly witch…
Thorn Rosa slept a hundred years…
A thorny hedge grew giant high…
One day there came a handsome prince…
He broke right through the thorny hedge…
Thorn Rosa wakened at his touch…
They all lived for a hundred years…
Game
Formation: One student, “Thorn Rosa, or Sleeping Beauty” is surrounded by a circle of students holding hands (the castle). Around the “castle” is another circle of students holding hands (the “thorny hedge”).
Teacher or students tell / sing the story of Sleeping Beauty, and students act out the story. One student is the witch, who touches Thorn Rosa, who falls asleep. Then another student is the Prince, who breaks through the circles and touches Thorn Rosa, who wakes up.
See also
- Subjects: ballads / interactive stories
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Meter: 2
- Scale: hexachord
- Tones: drmfsl
- Melody source / Lyric source
- German version: Dornröschen
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
