What If?

In upper grade music we are learning about the 12-Bar Blues - lyrics structure, chord structure. Being that it is the Lunar New Year starting today, I have been thinking about teaching the Chinese Boatman's Chantey to the recorder students, so I had both the blues and the chantey going through my head at the same time. Perhaps I could arrange a blues version of this pentatonic song for our elementary orchestra for next year's February concert....