About Bingo#
Bingo is a spelling game as much as a song. Each time through, one more letter of the dog’s name is dropped and replaced with a clap, until the whole word is clapped rather than sung, which is exactly the memory-and-timing challenge that has kept teachers using it. The song is traditional and has been in circulation for well over two hundred years, with no single author to credit.
One thing to watch on the six-hole ocarina: the spelled-out B-I-N-G-O line reaches up to an A sharp, the only note here that needs an accidental fingering. Everything else stays on plain naturals between C and A.
Bingo Ocarina Tab#
| CThere | FWas | FA | CFar- | Cmer | DHad | DA | CDog | ||||
| CAnd | FBin- | Fgo | GWas | GHis | AName | FOh | |||||
| AB | AI | A#N | A#G | A#O | GB | GI | AN | AG | AO | ||
| FB | FI | GN | GG | GO | Fand | EBin- | Cgo | DWas | EHis | FName |