Going Places Level: Key Stage 1 - Songs & chants
Music Lesson Description
Two 'Horse-power' Songs!
She'll be Coming Round the Mountain
This is a traditional American song and, as with many songs passed down via the vocal tradition, you'll hear different versions of it. This is Luchia's favorite version. When I teach this song, I like to do lots of *rhythm* imitation first, in which I clap and the children copy. That's because it's quite difficult for everyone to get the rhythms of the song exactly right for these particular words:
- round the mountain
- six white horses
- pink pyjamas
*Reminder - the rhythm of a song is the element of it that you could clap*
- She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
- She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
- She'll be coming round the mountain
- Coming round the mountain when she comes
- Coming round the mountain when she comes
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- She'll be driving six white horses when she comes
- ... and so on
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- She'll be wearing pink pyjamas when she comes
- ... and so on
Trotting Quickly
This song, with a traditional tune, is about a Delhi pony cart driver. The original lyrics ask the pony to gallop quickly on a hot day but, being a softy horse-lover, I made up a new set of words that ask him to trot instead, with a promise of dinner underneath a shady tree. The 'trotting quickly' choruses need to be sung with energy but the 'It's a long way' and 'When we're home' verses need to sound tired.
- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse
- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse
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- It's a long way and we're tired
- We have had a busy day
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- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse
- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse
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- When we're home you'll have your dinner
- Underneath a shady tree
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- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse
- Trotting quickly, quickly, quickly
- Trotting quickly little horse