Public-domain song
Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Key signature
- No sharps or flats
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Origin
- Mason set Sarah Josepha Hale’s 1830 verse to this tune in 1831.
Public domain: by Lowell Mason, who died in 1872; first published in 1831.
Written out here note by note as a melody only: no lyrics and no accompaniment.
The two parts
Part 1
The phrase people know, short enough to learn in a sitting.
- Length
- 4 bars, 13 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 88
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to E4
- Note values
- whole notes, quarter notes
Part 2: the complete song
The whole tune: its melody once through to its end, without the repeats a performance would add.
- Length
- 8 bars, 26 notes
- Tempo
- ♩ = 100
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Range
- C4 to G4
- Note values
- whole notes, half notes, quarter notes
Earn a star on the first part to open the complete song.
Lessons that use this song
Each of these lessons opens the first part.