Video Information

• Choir: Matthew J Curtis
• Piece: Hiawatha and his mittens
• Composer:  David Warin Solomons
• Voices:  4 equal voices
• Sheet Music:   www.musicaneo.com/sheetmu...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Contemporary, humor, humour
• A setting for four equal voices of the parody by Rev George Strong on Longfellow's Hiawatha poem.
  The music is almost, but not quite, a canon...
  Versions are available in B flat mixolydian and in C mixolydian.
  (ie major with flatte...  moreA setting for four equal voices of the parody by Rev George Strong on Longfellow's Hiawatha poem.
  The music is almost, but not quite, a canon...
  Versions are available in B flat mixolydian and in C mixolydian.
  (ie major with flattened 7th)
  
  When he killed the Mudjokivis,
  Of the skin he made him mittens,
  Made them with the fur side inside,
  Made them with the skin side outside.
  He, to get the warm side inside,
  Put the inside skin side outside;
  He, to get the cold side outside,
  Put the warm side fur side inside.
  That's why he put the fur side inside,
  Why he put the skin side outside,
  Why he turned them inside outside  less