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“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
At the Farm

"The Cackling Hen" Lyrics, Text Format

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Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
  • Key: E Flat Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABCCDE
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ta ti ti |
    | ta ta | ta (ti) ti |
  • Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Re/Do, Ti\So, So/Do, So\Mi, Fa\Re
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; tempo: allegro moderato, poco ritardando (slow tempo), a tempo (resume tempo); 1st and 2nd endings, repeat, pickup beat
  • Key Words: farming, raising chickens, biddy hen, animal science, grand air, hen, cackle, queen, egg

“The Cackling Hen” 

1.
“Good day, my biddy hen, good day!
What does your grand air mean?
You step about so proudly,
You cackle out so loudly;
Have you been made a queen?
Have you been made a queen?”
2. “Look. look, look, look!” said biddy hen;
“Look in my nest, I beg.
I step about so proudly,
I cackle out so loudly
Because I have laid an egg!
Because I have laid an egg!”
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