yet another melody...

Mari Broman Olsen (molsen@umiacs.umd.edu)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:38:26 -0400 (EDT)

My daughter learned this one in first grade, as part of an art history
unit on ancient Greece. I think the tune is (with letter line up,
though syllables match up less well)

'Down in the meadow in an ITty bitty pool'
(alpha beta gamma delta EPsilon zeta e-

Swam three little fishies and the mama fishies too
ta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu

Swim said the mama fishies
ksi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon

[tune diverges here...all but last on the high note that ended last line]
(phi chi psi o ga
me

I can't believe I'm doing this: I'm supposed to be working on an
index...

Mari