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Thread #78094   Message #1399990
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Feb-05 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old McDonald / Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Subject: ADD: Old Mac Donald Had a Farm
OK, so here's the more-or-less "common version"*, which I found in Silber & Silber's Folksinger's Wordbook

Old MacDonald Had A Farm

F               Bb    F
Old MacDonald had a farm,
G      C       F
E - I, E - I, Oh!

                   Bb       F
And on this farm he had some chicks,
G7    C7      F
E - I, E - I, Oh!

With a chick chick here

And a chick chick there,
Bb
Here a chick, there a chick,
F            Gm
Everywhere a chick chick,
F               Bb    F
Old MacDonald had a farm,
G7    C7      F
E - I, E - I, Oh!

Ducks—quack, quack

Dogs—bow, wow

Cows—moo, moo

Pigs—oink, oink.

Etc.


*I suppose, if I were totally honest, "common version" means what I've known since I've known since I was a kid in Detroit, seat of all American culture and tradition (and home of Motown Records)
-Joe Offer-