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4 Grade
Spring Concert
Music
Sumer is Icumen In
Soomer is icoo-men in
Loo-duh sing cuckoo
Groweth sade and bloweth made
And spring the who-duh new
Sing cuckoo.
Ow uh blateth after lomb, loathe after calvuh coo.
Bullock stairteth, buck-uh vairteth, moorl sing cuckoo.
Cuckoo, cuckoo.
Well singst thoo cuckoo,
Nay swick thoo nevare new.
Ostinato:
Sing cuckoo, new, sing cuckoo.
Jennie Jenkins
Will you wear white, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear white, Jennie Jenkins?
I won’t wear white for the color’s too bright,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Will you wear red, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear red, Jennie Jenkins?
I won’t wear red, it’s the color of my head,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Will you wear green, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear green, Jennie Jenkins?
I won’t wear green, it’s a shame to be seen,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Will you wear purple, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear purple, Jennie Jenkins?
I won’t wear purple, it’s the color of a turtle,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Will you wear black, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear black, Jennie Jenkins?
I won’t wear black, it’s the color of a sack,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Will you wear blue, oh my dear, oh my dear?
Oh will you wear blue, Jennie Jenkins?
I will wear blue if your love is true,
I’ll buy me a fol-de-rol-dy til-de-tol-dy, seek a double roll,
Jennie Jenkins, roll.
Early to Bed
Early to bed, and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.
Wise, healthy, and wealthy.
Revolutionary Tea
Verse 1:
There was an old lady lived over the sea,
And she was an Island Queen;
Her daughter lived off in a new country,
With an ocean of water between.
The old lady’s pockets were full of gold,
But never contented was she,
So she called on her daughter to pay her a tax
Of threepence a pound on her tea,
Of threepence a pound on her tea.
Verse 2:
“Now Mother, dear Mother,” the daughter replied,
“I shan’t do the thing you ask;
I’m willing to pay a fair price for the tea,
But never the three-penny tax.”
“You shall,” quoth the mother, and redden’d with rage,
“For you’re my own daughter, you see.
And sure ‘tis quite proper the daughter should pay
Her mother a tax on her tea,
Her mother a tax on her tea.”
Verse 3:
The tea was conveyed to the daughter’s door,
All down by the ocean’s side.
And the bouncing girl pour’d out every pound,
In the dark and boiling tide.
And then she called out to the Island Queen,
“Oh Mother, dear Mother,” quoth she,
“Your tea may you have when ‘tis steep’d enough,
But never a tax from me,
But never a tax from me.”
Yankee Doodle
Verse 1:
Yankee Doodle went to town,
Riding on a pony,
Stuck a feather in his cap,
And called it Macaroni.
Verse 5:
And every time they fired it off
It took a horn of powder,
It made a noise like father’s gun,
Only a nation louder.
Verse 2:
Father and I went down to camp,
Along with Captain Gooding,
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.
Chorus
Chorus:
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
Verse 3:
There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion,
A-giving orders to his men,
I guess there was a million.
Chorus
Verse 4:
There they had a swamping gun,
As big as a load of maple,
Upon a deuced little car,
A load for father’s cattle.
Verse 5:
And every time they fired it off
Verse 6:
And there I saw a little keg,
Its head was made of leather.
They knocked on it with little sticks,
To call the folks together.
Verse 7:
There they’d fife away like fun,
And play on cornstalk fiddles;
And some had ribbons red as
blood,
All bound around their middles.
Chorus
Kansas Boys
Verse 1
Hello girls, listen to my voice.
Don’t you fall in love with no Kansas boys.
For if you do, your fortune it will be,
Hoecake, hominy and sassafras tea.
Verse 2
Some live in a cabin with a huge log wall—
Nary a window in it at all,
Sandstone chimney and a puncheon floor,
Clapboard roof and a buttoned door.
Verse 3
When they go to meeting the clothes that they wear,
Is an old brown coat all picked and bare,
An old white hat more rim than crown,
A pair of cotton socks they wore the week around.
Shenandoah
Verse 1:
Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you
Away you rolling river,
Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you
Away, I’m bound away
Across the wide Missouri.
Verse 2:
‘Tis sev’n long years, since last I saw you
And hear your rolling river.
‘Tis sev’n long years, since last I saw you.
Away, I’m bound away
Across the wide Missouri.
Verse 3:
Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter,
Away, you rolling river.
Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter.
Away, I’m bound away
Across the wide Missouri.
The Army Goes Rolling Along
Over hill, over dale, we will hit the dusty trail,
And the caissons go rolling along.
In and out, hear them shout, counter march and right about,
And the caissons go rolling along.
Then it’s Hi! Hi! Hee! In the field artillery.
Shout out your numbers loud and strong!
For where e’er you go,
You will always know that the caissons are rolling along.
Anchors Aweigh (Navy)
Anchors aweigh, my boys, anchors aweigh.
Farewell to college joys,
We sail at break of day, day, day, day.
Through our last night on shore, hail to the foam.
Until we meet once more, here’s wishing you a happy voyage home.
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to
the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
National Anthem
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?