Milk for Supper -

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

Singing up from Do to La.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: ABAB pitches: AaBC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Mi\Do, La\Fa, Do/Mi, Mi/So, Re\Ti
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; tempo: allegretto/moderately fast (98-109 BPM); dynamics: mezzo forte/ medium loud
Key Words: farm life, milking a cow, supper, spread, bowl, pictures, loaf, bread, sweet, cowbells, pasture

**“Milk for Supper”**

	1.	Where’s the milk for Baby’s supper? Here’s the little table spread; Here’s his bowl with pictures on it, Here’s a loaf of bread sweet bread,

	2.	Oh, the milk will soon be ready, Down the road the cowbells ring. Cows are coming from the pasture, Milk for Baby’s bowl they bring.

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