About A Spoonful of Sugar#
The Sherman Brothers, Richard and Robert, wrote this for Walt Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins, where Julie Andrews sings it while tidying a nursery with a snap of her fingers. Richard Sherman said the title came from his young son, who had mentioned getting the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. The tune has stayed a nursery and singalong favorite ever since.
On a 6-hole ocarina it sits mostly in the comfortable middle, running from D up to the D an octave above. The catch is the chromatic coloring: the melody slips between F and F sharp and touches A sharp, so clean half-holes are what keep those notes in tune. Take the quick “piece of cake” jumps slowly the first few times.
A Spoonful of Sugar Ocarina Tab#
| DIn | Eeve | F#-ry | Gjob | Gthat | Gmust | Gbe | Gdone |
| F#There | Gis | Aan | Bel | B-e | B-ment | Bof | Bfun |
| CYou | Dfind | Dthe | Dfun | Dand | Dsnap! | ||
| Bthe | Gjob's | Ea | F#game | ||||
| F#And | Feve | F#-ry | Gtask | Gyou | F#un | G-der | A#-take |
| A#Be | B-comes | Ba | A#piece | Bof | Bcake | ||
| BA | Dlark! | BA | Dspree! | ||||
| BIt's | Dver | B-y | Dclear | Bto | Dsee | ||
| GThat | Ea | F#spoon | F#-ful | Fof | F#su | C-gar | |
| BHelps | Athe | Bme | B-di | B-cine | Dgo | Bdown | |
| GThe | F#me | F#-di | F#-cine | Fgo | F#down | D-wown | |
| EMe | E-di | E-cine | Fgo | F#down | |||
| GJust | Ea | F#spoon | F#-ful | Fof | F#su | C-gar | |
| BHelps | Athe | Bme | B-di | B-cine | Dgo | Bdown | |
| BIn | Da | Dbmost | Dde | B-light | A-ful | Gway |