Limba, Limba Salley

This lively folksong of Guyana is associated with a children's game involving creative movement. Dr. Victor Bobetsky, Director of the Hunter College Teacher Education Program in Music, and the arranger for Limba, Limba Sally, shared the following information he learned from Gillian Richards-Greaves, one of his students, who grew up in Guyana:  Children playing this song/game create their own verses and dance movements that describe their unique personality or physical characteristics.  For example, a tall child might sing, "No matter you see me tall, so" while describing his/her tallness through dance movements.  Another child might sing, "No matter you see me proud, so" while describing his/her feelings through dance movements.  In this arrangement of the song, the adjectives, "tall" and "short" are used.