• A prince on the bridge of a castle moat heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de lei-ai oo】 Men on a road with a load to tote heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de l-oo】 Men in the midst of a table d‘hote heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de lei-ai oo】 Men drinking beer with the foam afloat heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de l-oo】 One little girl in a pale pink coat heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de lei-ai oo】 She yodeled back to the lonely goatherd 【lei-o-de lei-o-de l-oo】 Soon her Mama with a gleaming gloat heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de lei-ai oo】 What a duet for a girl and goatherd
syllable of the musical solfege system appears in its lyrics, sung
on the pitch it names.
<Do-re-mi>
Let's start at the very beginning A very good place to start When you read you begin with A-B-C When you
Tea, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-
oh)
from The Sound of Music Published 1959 Writer Oscar Hammerstein II Composer Richard Rodgers
Song from The Sound of Music Published 1959 Writer Oscar Hammerstein II Composer Richard Rodgers

"Do-Re-Mi" is
a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Within the story, it is used by Maria to teach the notes of the major musical scale to
• High on a hill was a lonely goatherd 【lei-ao-de lei-ao-de lei-ai oo】 Loud was the voice of the lonely goatherd 【lei-ao-de lei-ao-de l-oo】 Folks in a town that was quite remote heard 【lei-ao-de lei-ao-de lei-ai oo】 Lusty and clear from the goatherd‘s throat heard 【lei-o-de lei-o-de l-oo】 ao hao lei-yao-de lei-o, ao hao lei-yaode lei】 【ao hao lei-yao-de lei-o, lei-yao-de lei-o lei】
sing you begin with do-re-mi Do-re-mi, do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be Do-re-mi, do-re-mi Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti
Let's see if I can make it easy Doe, a deer, a female deer Ray, a drop of golden sun Me, a name I call myself Far, a long, long way to run Sew, a needle pulling thread La, a note to follow Sew
• This song has been sung at different points in the musical depending on the production. In the 1959 Broadway production,Maria (played by Mary Martin) sings the song in the children's bedroom to comfort them during a storm, while in the 1965 film Maria (played by Julie Andrews) and the children sing it as part of a marionette show they perform for their father. (A different song, "My Favorite Things," is performed in the bedroom for the film version.)
• This song tells the whimsical story of a goatherd whose yodelling is heard from far off and by passers-by, until he falls in love with a girl who wears a pale-pink coat, with her mother joining in the yodelling.
the Von Trapp children who learn to sing
for the first time, even though their father has disallowed frivolity after their mother's death. The song is notable in that each