Old King Cole -

Challenging, as rhythms change for verse syllables
and practicing the perfect fourth (P4) Do\So/Do.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ti ti ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginners: Do\So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; steps up and down the staff from Do to Fa, tied notes (= + in math)
Key Words: world geography: England; King, soul, merry, pipe, bowl, fiddlers, compare, rare, fine, called, compare, none; contraction: there’s (there is)

**“Old King Cole”**
Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Oh there’s none so rare, as can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three

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