Ca’ Hawkie

Northumberland is a border county (next to Scotland) and very rural. Once, the wealth of the families in this region was measured by the number of cattle they had. This song is about Hawkie, pronounced ‘Hackie’ – a cow, or ‘coo’, as they say in Northumberland, who is stuck on the far side of a ‘burn’, or stream, and is too ‘sweir’ (shy) to cross the ‘wattor’ (water), to come and be milked.

Traditional Northumbrian; Used by permission of The Sage Gateshead

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Key stage KS1, KS2

Year group 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Subject English, Geography, History

Copyright/Public domain (PD) Public domain songs (PD)

Style Traditional song

Vocal range Medium (around an octave), Big (more than an octave)

Musical format Unison, Unaccompanied
- Ca’ Hawkie (notes and activities)

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Making Music On The Line

Folkworks

c/o The Sage Gateshead Education Centre

Making Music On The Line celebrates exciting traditional music from five locations chosen for their proximity to the 0 degrees meridian line: Shetland, Northumbria, Gascony, Catalonia and Burkina Faso. On the Line is a millennium project that provides opportunities to learn about other people who share the same time but live in different cultures and countries. The project celebrates the diversity of the music but also the universality of themes (animals, love and marriage, storytelling),

call and response, dance and rhythm.
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The audio tracks were recorded specially for the Sing Up programme by The Sage Gateshead, mixed and mastered by Nic Rowley at Vandborg studios. The backing track was used by permission of The Sage Gateshead.

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All copyright music in the Sing Up programme is used by permission. The songwriters and/or copyright holders have been remunerated under due licensing arrangements. Find out more about copyright by visiting the UK Music and Sound Rights websites.