Johnny Get Your Hair Cut -

Playing rhythm instruments and adding movements.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA, Pennsylvania – Folk Song
words adapted, Jess D. Buice
Key: B Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La Do Re Mi (pentatonic scale)
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi8, So\Mi, Mi/So/Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio, Do\La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; repeated melodic rhythm patterns, four note tonic arpeggio, playing rhythm instruments, introducing rhythm instruments, moving to rhythm
Key Words: USA geography: Pennsylvania, rhythm instruments: drum, tone block, horn, voice, hands (clap); contraction: let’s (let us)

**“Johnny Get Your Hair Cut”**

	1.	Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut, Johnny get your hair cut, just like me. Johnny get your hair cut, hair cut, hair cut, Johnny get your hair cut, just like me.

	2.	Let’s all tap the beat now, tap, tap, tap,tap, Let’s all tap the beat now, just like me. Let’s all tap the beat now, tap, tap, tap,tap, Let’s all tap the beat now, just like me.

	3.	Susie brush your hair long, brush, brush, brush, brush, Susie brush your hair long, just like me. Susie brush your hair long, brush, brush, brush, brush, Susie brush your hair long, just like me.

	4.	Johnny play your drum now, boom, boom, boom, boom, Johnny play your drum now, just like me. Johnny play your drum now, boom, boom, boom, boom, Johnny play your drum now, just like me.

	5.	Susie tap your tone block, tap, tap, tap, tap, Susie tap your tone block, just like me. Susie tap your tone block, tap, tap, tap, tap, Susie tap your tone block, just like me.

	6.	Johnny toot your horn now, toot, toot, toot, toot, Johnny toot your horn now, just like me. Johnny toot your horn now, toot, toot, toot, toot, Johnny toot your horn now, just like me.

	7.	Susie sing your song now, la, la, la, la, Susie sing your song now, just like me. Susie sing your song now, la, la, la, la, Susie sing your song now, just like me.

	8.	Let’s all clap together, clap, clap, clap, clap, Let’s all clap together, just like me. Let’s all clap together, clap, clap, clap, clap, Let’s all clap together, just like me.

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