How I have made my younger students laugh recently.

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Have you heard the song,"Mary Had a Little Lamb"? It is popular in the United States as a song to teach young children to sing. It has only two chords. All of the notes of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" are within a half-scale of the key it is in. I even use it with my adult students as I teach them about chord progressions. How have I been making my students laugh recently? I teach them a song I "wrote" called "Mary Lost Her Little Lamb." It's in a minor key. I use it to show that they can turn a "happy key" into a sad key" by "flatting the third." I have noticed that several kids have "cracked up" (laughed out loud) and then proudly sang to their parents after we played and sang "Many Lost Her Little Lamb" Iogether. mary lost her little lamb little lamb little lamb mary lost her little lamb oh where could she be. Of course we end that section of our lessons singing "Happy Mary" in a major key.