This is the Way We March

composed of lines from the “Index of First Lines” in Hollis Dann’s First Year Music primer, 1914

I.

O wind, how strong you blow to-day | O teach a child, dear Lord
This is the do bell

This is the way the snow comes down
The world is very strange and white
The miner works beneath

I am the little New Year
Do, re, mi, mi, re, do; we are learning

If you will be my valentine

II.

The moon must love me very much
One to make ready

Where do all the daisies go
There was a little gardener

Cuckoo, cuckoo, lives in the clock |A little tiny bird
(I come when the children are sleeping) | The sails go round

III.

Sail, sail, my kite
Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea | Lightly row!

If I had a little boat | In the sky above us

There was a man lived in the moon
The candy man who was in the sun

The North wind blows | Six little birds
Five little girls with hearts so light
Fly away, fly away over the sea

IV.

Tramp, tramp, tramp

This is the way we march
This is the way we sing and dance
The world is so full | Growing in the vale
O! a-hunting we will go

The rain is raining all around | This is the way the snow comes down

Now June comes with her roses

V.

Soldier boy, soldier boy
Thank thee for the world so sweet

Little children, can you tell
My father was a carpenter | Guess what I found one day
In my little Dutch garden

Three little rules | Who’ll buy ‘em

Who’ll play the soldier game
When a child goes marching out