• Grade: Kindergarten
  
  
• Origin: England - Nursery Rhyme, Children's Playground Song*
  
  
• Key: C Major
  
  
• Time: 6/8
  
  
• Form: AaBC
  
  
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
  | ta/ ta ti | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ |
  
  
• Pitches: beginners: Do Mi So La
  
  
• Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/La, Mi\Do
  
  
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: eighth, dotted quarter; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti's), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
  
  
• Key Words: world georaphy: England; playground game song, posies, ashes, fall, down, pocketful, mother, jump, up, upstairs, downstairs, pail water, sea, water, cows, meadow, buttercups, fishes, one, two, three

* While holding hands, children walk in a circle singing the song, until the last word (down) when they all fall to the floor. The last child to fall is out of the game and the game continues.