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"Goosey, Goosey, Gander"
       
     
"Goosey, Goosey, Gander"
 


Goosey, Goosey, Gander" Lyrics Text Format

Introducing divisions for a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note. Challenging intervals will require your best readers.

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Description
 
  • Grade: Kindergarten

  • Origin: England - Late 16th-century Nursery Rhyme

  • Key: C Major

  • Time: 4/4

  • Form: ABaC

  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta ti ti ta ta |
    | ti ti ti ti ta ti/ ri | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti |
    | ti ti ti ti ta/a |

  • Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do

  • Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, La/Do, Do\So, So\Mi, Re/Fa\Re, Re\Ti, Mi/La, La\Fa

  • Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; excellent for introducing a dotted eighth sixteenth division, uncommon intervals

  • Key Words : prayers, wander, up, down, stairs, lady's chamber, old, left, goose, gander

  
 


"Goosey, Goosey, Gander"

Goosey, goosey, gander,
Where shall I wander?
Up stairs and down stairs
And in my lady's chamber.

There I met and old man
Who would not say his prayers,
So I took him by the left leg,
And threw him down the stairs.

 
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