Inchworm 🤍 🖨️ 🎸
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Category:Calm
Link:Performance Example
Notes:Written by Frank Loesser for the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen. Two melodic lines-counting and the inchworm's verse-are meant to be sung together as a round/counterpoint.

CTwo and two Fmare four

CFour and four Fmare eight

CEight and eight are Fsix-Fmteen

CSixteen and sixteen G7are thirty-two


CInch worm, Bbinch worm

CMeasuring the Bbmarigolds

CYou and your a-Frithmetic

CYou'll probably go G7far


CInch worm, Bbinch worm

CMeasuring the Bbmarigolds

CSeems to me you'd Fstop and see

CHow beautiful they G7are


CTwo and two Fmare four

CFour and four Fmare eight

CEight and eight are Fsix-Fmteen

CSixteen and sixteen G7are thirty-two


CInch worm, Bbinch worm,

Cmeasuring the Bbmarigolds

CYou and your a-Frithmetic,

Cyou'll probably go G7far


Chords Used

BbCF
FmG7
BbCF
FmG7