Let's start at the very beginning A very good place to start When you read you begin with A-B-C When you 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 [Maria] 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 Tea, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh) [Maria and Children] 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 Tea, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh) [Maria] Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do So-do! [Maria] Now children, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on Are only the tools we use to build a song Once you have these notes in your heads You can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up Like this So Do La Fa Mi Do Re [Spoken] Can you do that? [Children] So Do La Fa Mi Do Re [Maria] So Do La Ti Do Re Do [Children] So Do La Ti Do Re Do [Maria] Now, put it all together [Maria and Children] So Do La Fa Mi Do Re, So Do La Ti Do Re Do [Maria] Good! [Brigitta] But it doesn't mean anything [Maria] So we put in words. One word for every note. Like this When you know the notes to sing You can sing most anything (Together!) [Maria and Children] When you know the notes to sing You can sing most anything 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 Tea, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to Do Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re [Children] Do Mi Mi Mi So So Re Fa Fa La Ti Ti [Maria] When you know the notes to sing You can sing most anything [Maria and Children] 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 Tea, a drink with jam and bread That will bring us back to [Maria] [Children] Do So Do Re La Fa Mi Mi Do Fa Re So So Do La La Fa Ti La So Fa Mi Re Ti Do, oh, oh Ti Do, So Do