Oats and Beans

Oats and Beans is a level 1 performance piece. Part number TQP.L1.CLCG.P53

It requires all the level 1 notes in both hands along with two and three note chords. It uses the crotchet, minim and semibreve in simple quadruple time and has a melody transfer to aid bass clef fluency.
 
 This is a performance piece because a student should aim to play it without having to think about it. Practice in 2 bar sections which will be the phrase.

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Oats and Beans is a traditional British and American folk song, 1380 in the Roud Folk Song Index. [1] In a book by Alice Bertha Gomme's book entitled "The Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland" (1894) [2] this is a "play song", in which children perform actions with the song, standing in a ring.

The words are

Oats and beans and barley grow
 Oats and beans and barley grow
 Do you or I or anyone know how oats and beans and barley grow?

First the farmer plants the seeds
 Stands up tall and takes his ease
 Stamps his feet and claps his hands
 And turns around to view his land

Oats and beans and barley grow
 Oats and beans and barley grow
 Do you or I or anyone know how oats and beans and barley grow?

Then the farmer watches the ground
 Watches the sun shine all around
 Stamps his feet and claps his hands
 And turns around to view his land

Oats and beans and barley grow
 Oats and beans and barley grow
 Do you or I or anyone know how oats and beans and barley grow?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number

[2] https://archive.org/details/traditionalgames01gommuoft/page/n9/mode/2up