Introducing the descending and ascending intervals Do\La, La/Do.
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- Grade: First
- Origin: Virginia, USA - Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ti ti ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta |
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Do\La, Do/La, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; introducing the intervals Do\La and La/Do, tune sounds minor by ending phrase on the 6th (La)
- Key Words: hoecake (thin bread made of corn meal cooked on a hoe, over an open campfire - much like a pancake), frog, nodding, lizard, stole, fetch, long-tailed, nanny
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"Snaked Baked a Hoecake"
Snake baked a hoecake and set a frog to watch it,
And the frog got a nodding and a lizard came and stole it.
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed nanny, you,
Fetch back my hoecake, you long-tailed
nanny, you.
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