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Descending variations of La\So\Me\Re,
changing the rhythm to match the lyrics.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA – Traditional
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB – verse/chorus
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta/a | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ta |
| ta ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta ta | - Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Re/So, So\Do, Do/Fa, Fa/La, Re/Fa
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; tied notes, verse/chorus, changing rhythms to match verse lyrics
- Key Words: Christmas, Santa Clause, seasonal, reindeer, pause, jumps, through, chimney, joys, Saint Nick, stocking, dolly, laughs, cries, shut, glorious, hammer, tacks, whistle, whip, cracks; contraction: wouldn’t (would not); possessive: ones’
| 1. | Up on the house-top the reindeer pause, Out jumps good old Santa Clause; Down through the chimney with lots of toys, All for the little ones’ Christmas joys. |
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| Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go! Ho, ho, ho! who wouldn’t go! Up on the house-top, click, click, click, Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick. |
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First comes the stocking of little Neil, Oh dear Santa, fill it well; Give her a dolly that laughs and cries, One that will open and shut her eyes. |
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| 3. | Look in the stocking of little Bill, Oh, just see what a glorious fill! Here is a hammer and lots of tacks, Whistle and a ball and a whip that cracks! |
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