![]() If you consider the first time any given audience ever heard this song, way way back before recording or even sheet music, you can imagine the singer guiding them over the first couple of verses - by the end they'd all be much more confident as each opportunity arose to join in. Straight after that you get the repeated refrain, which they've now heard before & will find it easier to sing along to, if not the first time, then increasingly confidently with each refrain. ![]() Then you get the 'let's all join in' bit, with a simple opening line that everyone will soon pick up - "And we'll all go together" ![]() I think I'd be inclined to call it a Refrain rather than a chorus, if viewed this way - it also echoes Chris' sentiment of it being a call & response song.Ĭonsidered this way, you have a two-line verse leading the story, followed by a "warm-up" to the chorus, almost as though it's needed to teach the audience how the next bit goes. You can think of the song as having two 'choruses' - one in the verse & another in the chorus itself. Chris' answer notwithstanding, there's an additional 'oddness' to that song. ![]()
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