A little sailor

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A little sailor is a moving musical play of unknown origin. Melody after May has come , sage: Justus W. Lyra (1842)

text

A little sailor sailed around the world.
He loved a girl who had no money at all.
The girl has to die, and who was to blame?
The little sailor in his mania for love.

choreography

The content of the song is accompanied by the following gestures:

  • a - thumb shows a one
  • smaller - hand at hip level or a short distance between thumb and index finger
  • Sailor - Sailor salute, hand on the imaginary sailor's cap
  • circumnavigated - wave movement with both hands, which can form a sail
  • World - movement in the form of a globe
  • loved - hand on heart or hug yourself
  • Girls - make curtsies or suggest feminine forms with vertical undulations
  • no - shake your head
  • Money - rub your thumb and fingers against each other
  • die - cut throat
  • Guilt - Moral index finger, shaking fists, or shrugging shoulders
  • Crazy love - tapping your head or expanding spiraling motion around your forehead with your index finger

variants

Since moving singing games are passed on orally and through imitation , there are a number of variants of the song that differ in details. In one version of the song, the girl doesn't have to die, she just cries. The gestures not only underline the text, they also interpret it. This is particularly evident in the various gestures commonly used for girls and guilt .

Level of difficulty

In order to increase the level of difficulty, each time the stanza is repeated, another key word is left out and only represented by gestures. Anyone who does not fall silent in time with this fill-in-the-gap song usually has to drop out or give up a deposit .

distribution

The song is widespread among children in Hamburg , for example , but is also used in educational youth work. Guildo Horn released the song as a hidden track on the CD König der Möven . The gap in the text was filled in with characteristic noises, for example the sound of the sea for those who sailed around .

credentials

  1. ↑ See Boock Barbara, Lied und popular Kultur, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv, 46th year, pp. 250–251.
  2. ↑ Cf. Bernd Pachnicke, German folk songs for voice and guitar, Verlag neue Musik Berlin NM 332, p. 248
  3. ↑ Unbehauen, Peter: That you don’t make yourselves schieig - 111 songs and games from Hamburg streets and courtyards, Dölling & Galitz, 2000
  4. ↑ Körner, Ulrike: Ajele - 40 moving Singspiele, rex verlag luzern, 2005

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