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"Snake Baked a Hoecake" Lyrics, Text Format

Introducing the descending and ascending intervals Do\La, La/Do.

 

Description

  • Grade: First
  • Origin: Virginia, USA – Folk Song
  • Key: G Major
  • Time: 4/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ti ti ta |
    | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta |
  • Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
  • Intervals: beginners: Do\La, Do/La, Mi\Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; introducing the intervals Do\La and La/Do, tune sounds minor by ending phrase on the 6th (La)
  • Key Words: hoecake (thin bread made of corn meal cooked on a hoe, over an open campfire – much like a pancake), frog, nodding, lizard, stole, fetch, long-tailed, nanny

“Snaked Baked a Hoecake” 

Snake baked a hoecake and set a frog to watch it,
And the frog got a nodding and a lizard came and stole it.
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed nanny, you,
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed
nanny, you.

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