Mary Had a Little Lamb

Traditional

For clarinet and piano

Written in C major, range C4 to G4

A little girl’s lamb follows her everywhere, even to school one day, where it makes the children laugh and play until the teacher turns it out. Sarah Josepha Hale published the poem in 1830, and in 1877 Thomas Edison recited its first lines into his new phonograph, the first recording of a human voice ever played back; the piano part is from the American songbook Heart Songs (1909).

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