Baa Baa Black Sheep

★ History of the Song:

“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” the earliest surviving version of which dates from 1731. The words have not changed very much in two-and-a-half centuries and it is an English nursery rhyme. It is sung to a variant of the 1761 French melody Ah! vous dirai-je, maman. Uncorroborated theories have been advanced to explain the meaning of the rhyme, such as that it is a complaint against taxes levied on the Medieval English wool trade. In the twentieth century it was a subject of controversies in debates about political correctness. It has been used in literature and popular culture as a metaphor and allusion. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the lyrics and their variations as number 4439.

★ Outcomes of the Song:

1. You will learn how to perform written rhymed sentences. (wool-full-dame-lane)
2. You will learn intonation by singing the the song repeatedly. 3. You will learn to perform correct grammatical sentences.
4. You will learn new vocabulary.
(wool-master-dame-lane)
5. You will become more fluent when try to repeat it quickly.