Dialogue Songs

spoken
  • Old Mother Witch (Peterson: 26)
  • Pizza, pizza, daddy-o (Edet 1978a: 39)
mi so
  • Lemonade (variant of Here I come) (Gagne 1997, vol. 1: 10)
  • What's your name? (American folk songs for teaching: a15)
  • Witch, witch (American folk songs for teaching: a29)

Lemonade

GAME: Leader stands in front of class and sings his part.
At the end, he picks someone in the class and pretends to pour them a glass of lemonade.
This person pretends to drink it, and then becomes the next leader.

from Jean Sinor's childhood in New York, recorded in American folk songs for teaching: a16

mi so la
  • Little girl, little girl (one part spoken) (Bradford 1978: 37)
  • Witch, witch (American folk songs for teaching: c8)
do re mi
  • So go, rabbit (Rinzler 1978)
  • Sweet Johnny Cuckoo (Choksy 1981: 242)
do re mi so
  • Buy me a rocking chair (Browne: 418-419)
  • Hey, Billy Monday (a very short song,
    The tone row of the response part is only do mi.)
    (Abrahams 1974: 95)
  • How many miles (Choksy 1981: 225)
  • Old woman (Randolph 1982 vol. 3: 40,
    Sharp & Karpeles 1932 vol. 2: #178)
  • Lord Randall (Randolph 1982 vol. 2: #353)
  • A paper of pins (Randolph 1982 vol 3: 43-44)
  • The Quaker's courtship (Gardner & Chickering 1939: 425-426)
do re mi so la
  • Buffalo Boy (Winn 1974: 88)
  • Did you go to the barney? (Seeger, R. C. 1953: 112-113; Johnston 1984: 94)
  • Edward (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 71, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 244, 246)
  • Roman Soldiers (Have you any bread and wine?)
    (Gillington 1909: 15)
  • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 466)
  • Old woman (Randolph 1982 vol. 2: 40)
  • Mama, buy me a Chiney doll (variant of Buy me a rocking chair under do re mi so)
    (Erdei & Komlos 1974: 21)
  • Paper of pins (McDowell & McDowell 1947: 71-72)
do mi so la do mi
  • Hangman, hangman (a variant of The maid freed from the gallows)
    (MM: 165)
do re mi so do
  • Little girl (Arnold 1950: 95)
  • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 464)
  • My mommy calls me (Edet 1978a: 18)
  • Ol' Mist'is calls me (variant of My mommy calls me)
    (Spenney 1921)
do re mi so la do
  • Lord Randall (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 64-65,
    Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 198, 200-201, 201, 212, Barry 1905)
  • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 143-144, Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 459, 465)
  • Fengyang drum (Chinese) (Brocklehurst 1968: 51)
  • The Quaker Song (variant of The Quaker's Courtship under do re mi so)
    (Gardner & Chickering 1939: 424-425)
  • Quaker's courtship (another variant of The Quaker's Courtship under do re mi so)
    (Creighton & Senior 1950: 199-200)
  • Pourquoi (variant of Bird's Courting Song to the tune of Jesus Loves Me)
    (Erdie & Komlos 1974: 41-42)
do re mi so la do re
  • Edward (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 240-241, 215)
  • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 465)
  • No, sir (humorous song, could be used as demonstration
    of double negative) (Fowke 1977: 117)
la do re mi
  • Hambone (call and response song)
    (Edet 1978a: 41) do re mi so la do re mi
    • Edward (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 69-70, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 240, 243)
      Lord Randall (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 209, 216, 220)
    la do re mi
    • Chicka hanka (While one part sustains the last note of each phrase, the other part has a spoken refrain.)
      (Burlin, vol. 4: 37; Bradford 1978: 11)
    • Short'nin' bread (call and response song)
      (Bradford 1978: 21)
    so do (good for beginner on guitar, bass guitar, or string bass)
    • Black thorn Gomme [1894] 1964 I: 34-35
    so do re mi
    • Dear old Ages Boy (variant of Buffalo Boy)
      (Burton & Manning 1967: 75-76)
    so do re mi so
    • Goodbye, Old Paint (Sack: 70)
    • A paper of pins (Randolph, vol. 3: 41)
    • Tom's gone to Hilo (call and response) (Harlow 1962: 25)
    • Tommy's gone to Hilo (call and response)
      (same tone row and same source as above entry, but different version)
      (Harlow 1962: 73-74)
    • Who'll buy me milk cans? (Johnston 1984: 18)
    so la do re mi

    • Hey little girl (McIntosh 1974: 83-84)
    • Cotton eye Joe (Erdei & Komlos 1974: 23)

    Lazy Mary

    Piper 1915

    so la do re mi so la

    • Jenny Jenkins (good for lesson on colors)
      (Marais & Marais 1964: 158-159; Burton & Manning 1967: 43, MM: 158-159, Christenson & Buechner;
      Choksy 1974: 183, Sing out! 1975: 21, This is Music, vol. 2: 21)
    • Lord Randall (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 209, 209-210, 213-214)
    • Loving Nancy (Wyman 1916: 62-63)
    • Who all is here? (The tone row for one part is only so la do)
      (Jenkins: 58-59)
    • The riddle song (Marias & Marais 1964: 190-191; Erdei & Komlos 1974: 52)
    mi so la do re mi
    • My good old man (Randolph 1982 vol. 3: 173-174)
    • My horses ain't hungry (Burton & Manning 1967: 79,
      Choksy 1981: 251)
    mi so la do re mi so
    • Lord Randall (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 217)
    • Bird's Courting Song (Girl Scout Pocket Songbook 1956: 18; Brocklehurst 1968: 1)
    mi so la do re mi so la
    • Lord Randall (C & S: 10, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 198, 201, 219
    so do re mi
    • Jenny Jones (can be adapted for a lesson on verbs
      by having the respondent sing "Miss Jenny Jones is
      [verb in present progressive tense] and can't see you today.")
      (Brewster 1936: 253; Newell 1963)
    so do re mi so
    • Here come four dukes a-riding (involves choosing partners, and therefore might be repugnant for some age groups) (WR: 275)
    so do re mi so la
    • Mister Rabbit (Erdei & Komlos 1974: 50)
    so do re mi so la do
    • Lord Randall (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 199, Karpeles 1974: 21)
    • My fairey and my forey (Have you any bread and wine?)
      (Linscott 1939: 40-42)
    la do re mi so
    • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 453)
    la do re mi so la
    • Edward (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 238)
    • My good old man (Landeck 1950: 24; Erdei & Komlos 1974: 46)
    so la do
    • Hickety pickety horny cup (good for learning numbers)
      (Gomme [1894] 1964 [1894] 1964: 210))
    • Hickety tickety bumble bee (personalized version of above)
      (American folk Songs for teaching)
    so la do mi
    • Chicken, my chicken (good for teaching telling time)
      (McIntosh 1957: 94-95)
    la do mi
    • Go round, rabbit (handclap) (Bradford 1978: 19)
    so la do re mi
    • Edward (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 239-240)
    • Johnny Cuckoo (Jones & Hawes 1972: 71-73)
    • Lazy Mary (Piper 1915)
    • There's a hole in my bucket
      (variant of There's a hole in the bucket) (TH: 80-81)
    so la do re mi so
    • Billy Boy (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 230)
    • Edward (What blood on the point of your knife?)
      (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 67-68, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 241-242, 242)
    • Mary wore her red dress (can be used for a lesson on colors,
      can also be used for a lesson on stores)
      (Landeck & Crook 1969: 15)
    • Farmer's boy, The (McDowell 1947: 82-83, Bradford 1978: 75)
    so la do re mi so la
    • Devil's Nine Questions, The (Chase [1956] 1971: 110,
      Davis 1929: 5-6, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 7)
    • Edward (Flanders: 100, Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 238-239)
    • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 456)
    • Jennie Jenkins (Girl Scout Pocket Songbook 1956: 20)
    • Riddle Song (Girl Scout Pocket Songbook 1956: 21)
    la do re mi so la do
    • Maid freed from the gallows, The,
      (Sandburg 1927: 72, Bronson 1962, vol. 2: 457)
    so la do re mi so la do
    • Lord Randall (Bronson 1962, vol. 1: 195, 202-203)
    • Maid freed from the gallows, The (Randolph 1982 vol. 1: 147-148)
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