Lyrics
(Folk tune, Lyrics by Mary Frances Butts, 1890 – 1937)
A million little diamonds twinkled in the trees
And all the little maidens said, “A jewel if you please.”
And while they held their hands out *for the diamonds gay,
A million little sunbeams came and stole them all away.
Lyric suggestion:
Substitute
*for the diamonds in the day
See also
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Melody: dominant triad
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis
- Scale: hexatonic
- Tones: s,t,drmfs
- Source: We Sing and Dance, Sister Cecilia, Sister John Joseph, Sister Rose Margaret, Ginn and Company, 1957
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
