Introducing syncopation, stepping up from So to Do,
descending perfect fourth (P4), and keeping the steady
beat with a partner hand jive *, WHAT FUN!
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- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: USA - African American Clapping Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AAaA
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta | ta (ta) |
ti ti (ta) |
- Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do
- Intervals: beginners: ascending Perfect Fourth (P4) So/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; beamed eighth notes, pickup beat, stepping up the staff from the dominant (5, So) to the tonic (1, Do), descending perfect fourth Do\So, clapping a steady beat with a partner hand jive - NOTE: transfer vocal reading skills to fine motor skills on keyboard and recorder
- Key Words: USA history, African American History, rhyming words: mack/black/back, cents/fence, high/sky, July/lie; clapping song, hand jive, dressed, silver, buttons, mother, fifty, cows, jumped, 4th of July; York Alabama Version: river, cross, paid, five, dollars, grey horse, pull, swapped, holler/dollar, spend, grass, grow/hoe, chop/shop. money/honey, shop, bees, eat, meat, gnaw, bone, good-bye; contractions: couldn't (could not), wouldn't (would not), I'm (I am)
- Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for right, left, and two hands together
- Recorder: beginners: color coded, excellent addition to the Beginning Recorder Songs, after song number one, stepping up from G to C, perfect fourth C\G, when playing C: intrument balance - left thumb and right hand fingers
* Includes hand jive directions.
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"Miss Mary Mack"
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Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back. |
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She asked her mother, mother, mother,
For fifty cents, cents, cents,
To see the cows, cows, cows,
Jump over the fence, fence, fence. |
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They jumped so high, high, high,
They reached the sky, sky, sky,
And never came back, back, back,
Till the fourth of July, lie, lie. |
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York Alabama Version |
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Oh Mary Mack, Mack, Mack,
All dressed in black, black, black,
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons,
Up and down her back, back, back. |
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I went to the river, river, river,
And I couldn't cross, cross, cross,
And I paid five dollars, dollars, dollars,
For he old grey horse, horse, horse. |
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And the horse wouldn't pull, pull, pull,
I swapped him for a bull, bull, bull,
And the bull wouldn't holler, holler, holler,
I swapped him for a dollar, dollar, dollar. |
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And the dollar wouldn't spend, spend,
spend,
I put it in the grass, grass, grass,
And the grass wouldn't grow, grow, grow,
I got my hoe, hoe, hoe. |
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And the hoe wouldn't chop, chop, chop,
I took it to the shop, shop, shop,
And the shop made money, money, money,
Like the bees made honey, honey, honey. |
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Well, I eat meat, meat, meat,
And I gnaw my bone, bone, bone,
Well, good-bye honey, honey, honey,
I'm going on home. |
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