 |
 |
Limited range and intervals but a whole lot of fun to sing!
Description
- 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)
| 1. | 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. |
||
| Refrain: | |||
| 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. |
|||
|
2.
|
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. |
||
| Refrain | |||
| 3. | 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. |
||
| Refrain | |||
| 4. | 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. |
||
| Refrain | |||
| 5. | 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. |
||
| Refrain | |||
| 6. | 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. |
||
| Refrain | |||
Additional Formats (click to enlarge)
music |
beats |
rhythm |
pitch numbers |
solfeggio |
letter names |