Limited range and intervals but a whole lot of fun to sing!
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- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA - Folk Song - circa. 1880
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: staves: ABaCDEC - song AB - verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ti ti | ta/a/a ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: beginners: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do (M3), Re\Ti (M3), Ti/Re (M3), Re/So (P5), Fa\Re (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, verse/refrain, running eighths, vocal slurs, ending a phrase on the leading tones Re and Ti
- Key Words: USA- history, USA geography: Louisiana; Harvard Songbook 1880, nonsense lyrics: curly eyes, laughing hair, maiden, fair, spunky gal, knees, chicken sneeze, heard, sneezed, whooping cough, head, tail, grasshopper, railroad track, teeth, carpet tack, feet, stuck, chicken roost; abbreviations: sittin' (sitting), pickin' (picking)
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"Polly Wolly Doodle"
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Oh, I went down South for to see my Sal,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day;
My Sal, she is a spunky gal,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day. |
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Fare thee well,
Fare thee well,
Fare the well my fairy fay,
For I'm goin' to Louisiana,
For to see my Susyana,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day. |
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Oh, my Sal, she is a maiden fair,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day;
With curly eyes and laughing hair,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day. |
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Behind the barn, down on my knees,
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day;
I thought I heard a chicken sneeze.
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day. |
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He sneezed so hard with the whooping cough,
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day;
He sneezed his head and the tail right off .
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day. |
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Oh, a grasshopper sittin' on a railroad track,
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day;
A-pickin' his teeth with a carpet tack.
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day. |
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Oh, I went to bed but it wasn't any use,
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day;
My feet stuck out like a chicken roost.
Sing Polly wolly doodle all the day. |
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