Vocal Exercises

 

Work accurately before working quickly!

 

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two, a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do!   For they'll beat a tattoo at a twenty to two, a ratatatatatatatatatatoo, and the Dragon will come when he hears the drum at a minute or two today, at a minute or two to two.

 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.   If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

 

I am the model of a modern Major General.

 

Swan swam over the sea.   Swim swan swim!   Swan swam back again.   Well swum swan!

 

Tiny Timothy Deedrop likes to sit in the treetops.   Tiny Timothy Deedrop all this sitting in treetops must stop!

 

Who slit the sheets?   The sleet sheets slit I!

 

Silly Sally sells silly seashells by the seashore.

 

Old mother slipper slopper slid out of bed, old mother slipper slopper slipped out of bed, crying:   Odetto!   Ofoxo! Won't you please, please come home?

 

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God?

 

The bells were ringing and they were singing as the men were hanging, hanging, hanging in the old market square.

 

Mama nah, Papa dah.   Mama nah, Papa dah.   Mama nah, Papa dah.   Mama nah, Papa dah.   Etc….