"Does this make sense?"

Well, Shiela, since I don't know beans about reading music-even "solfege', and therefore-I started to write "and so"-your "m m m r m s m d' means nothing to me.

But I did understand your point that the tunes for "Paw Paw Patch" and "Ten Little Indians" are very much like "Where is old Elijah".

And that's good enough for me.

:o)