Mary Had a Little Lamb
Nursery · 1800s · Traditional (Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830)
Sing Mary Had a Little Lamb with pitch feedback
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 104 bpm in 4 beats to the bar. The 13 notes span C4 to G4 — 7 semitones — which rates Easy to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:32.
7 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:08 at 104 bpm
- A full session
- 0:32 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 0
Mary Had a Little Lamb lyrics, as transcribed here
- Mary had a little lamb,
- little lamb, little lamb
The songbook transcribes the opening phrase rather than the whole song, because 4 tight repetitions of a phrase you can hear yourself improve on beats one distracted run at the full thing.
Origin and copyright status
Lyrics published by Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830; the melody is a traditional tune of the same period.
- Attribution
- Traditional (Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830)
- Language
- English
Every melody in the songbook is public domain, which is why the whole thing can be sung in a browser without a licence. A specific recording or arrangement of the same tune can still be under copyright — this is our own transcription of the melody.
Genre, era and what it drills
Tags describe what the melody asks of a voice, not what it sounds like — “first song” is the reason to pick it on a given day.