Canada (Canada)
As you can see, the melody is just the C major gamut (C-Dur-Tonleiter, escala de do mayor) up and down with some repetitions:
C - D - E - F - G - G - A - A - A - A - G - A - A - A - A - G - F - F - F - F - E - E - G - G - G - G - C
or for speakers of Romance languages: do - re - mi - fa - sol - sol - la - la - la - la - sol - la - la - la - la - sol - fa - fa - fa - fa - mi - mi - sol - sol - sol - sol - do
And now for the text:
Alle meine Entchen
schwimmen auf dem See,
schwimmen auf dem See,
Köpfchen in das Wasser,
Schwänzchen in die Höh'.
All my little ducks
are swimming on the lake,
swimming on the lake,
little head in the water,
little tail raised.
In the first week of 7th grade, my music teacher asked everyone to sing Alle meine Entchen, so he could figure how well (or badly like me
) we can sing...
Are there similar songs with extremely primitive melodies in other languages?
The Netherlands (Nederland)
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