About Mary Had a Little Lamb (ABG)#
The words to Mary Had a Little Lamb were written by Sarah Josepha Hale and published in 1830 as a poem called Mary’s Lamb. Hale was an influential American editor, and this gentle story of a lamb trailing a girl to school may be her most quoted writing by far, even though few people know her name today.
This arrangement, labeled ABG for its main notes, keeps most of the tune inside a narrow span from G to B on the six-hole ocarina, stepping up to a high D only on the second “little lamb”. That mostly tight range makes it one of the simplest melodies here to pick out by ear.
Mary Had a Little Lamb (ABG) Lyrics#
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
Mary went, Mary went,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day,
School one day, school one day,
It followed her to school one day,
Which was against the rule.
It made the children laugh and play,
Laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.
Mary Had a Little Lamb (ABG) Ocarina Tab#
| BMa | A-ry | Ghad | Aa | Blit | B-tle | Blamb, | |
| Alit | A-tle | Alamb, | Blit | D-tle | Dlamb, | ||
| BMa | A-ry | Ghad | Aa | Blit | B-tle | Blamb, | BIts |
| Afleece | Awas | Bwhite | Aas | Gsnow. |