Introducing the fermata with a challenging 'hand jive.'
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- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA - Game Chant
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABAB
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
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ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
- Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, multiple fermatas
- Key Words: game song, none-sense song, sailor, meet, met, long, short, knock-kneed, bow-legged, cross-legged
- Recorder: beginners: grades 3-5, first
Beginning Recorder Song - for setting up recorder center/station and teaching the first recorder song see: Lesson Plan
- Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left, right, and two hands at once
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"Long-Legged Sailor"
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Did you ever, ever, ever, in your long legged life
Meet a long-legged sailor with a long legged wife?
No I never, never, never, in my long legged life
Met a long-legged sailor with a long legged wife. |
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Did you ever, ever, ever, in your short legged life
Meet a short-legged sailor with a short legged wife?
No I never, never, never, in my short legged life
Met a short-legged sailor with a short legged wife. |
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Did you ever, ever, ever, in your knock-kneed life
Meet a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife?
No I never, never, never, in my knock-kneed life
Met a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife. |
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Did you ever, ever, ever, in your bow-legged life
Meet a bow-legged sailor with a bow-legged wife?
No I never, never, never, in my bow-legged life
Met a bow-legged sailor with a bow-legged wife. |
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Did you ever, ever, ever, in your cross-legged life
Meet a cross-legged sailor with a cross-legged wife?
No I never, never, never, in my cross-legged life
Met a cross-legged sailor with a cross-legged wife. |
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Hand Jive:
"have" - arms down, swing to the right
"you" - swing to the left
"ever" - pat own thighs
"ever" - clap own hands together
"ever" - with partner, clap right hands together
"in your" - clap own hands together
"long" - spread hands wide apart
"legged" - clap own hands together
"life" - with partner, clap left hands together
"meet a" - clap own hands together
"long" - spread hands wide apart
"legged" - clap own hands together
"sailor" - salute with right hand
"with a" - clap own hands together
"long" - spread hands wide apart
"legged" - clap own hands together
"wife" - clap both hands together with your partner's hands.
Verse 2: "short" - hold hands close together in front of you.
Verse 3: "knock-kneed" - close hands to make fists.
Verse 4: "bow-legged" - cup hands together
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Verse 5: "cross-legged" - cross arms to make an "X."
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