Master the descending Do\La and ascending La/Do with this vocabulary tour de force!
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- Grade: First
- Origin: Southern, USA - Appalachian Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AaBC
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti| ta ti ti ta ta |
| ta ta ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a |
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Do\La, La/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pentatonic scale, vocal slur, verse, chorus
- Key Words: USA geography, Appalachian, swap, none-sense song, none-sense words: wing, wong, waddle, saddle, faddle, jackstraw (straw discarded after harvest); animals: rats, mice, horse, mare, mule, goat, sheep, cow, calf, hen, mouse, mole; farm animals, farming, wife, narrow, wheelbarrow, tote, trade, half, haystack, a-fair, caught, dog gone, bread, cheese, it's (possessive), straight; contractions: wouldn't (would not)
- Keyboard: advanced: challenging one hand exercise for upper grades, where Do is the third (3rd) finger in each hand
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"Swapping Song"
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When I was just a little boy I lived by myself,
All the bread and cheese I had, I had it on the shelf, |
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Wing wong waddle,
To my jackstraw saddle,
To my Johnny fair faddle,
To my long ways home. |
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The rats and the mice, they led me such a life,
I had to go to London to get myself a wife.
Chorus |
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The roads were long and the lanes were so narrow,
I had to bring her home in an old wheel-barrow.
Chorus
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The wheel-barrow broke and my wife got a fall;
Down came wheel-barrow, wife and all.
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Swapped my wheel-barrow and got me a horse;
Then I rode from course to course.
Chorus
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Swapped my horse and got me a mare;
Then I rode from fair to fair.
Chorus
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Swapped my mare and got me a mule;
Then I rode like a dog-gone fool.
Chorus
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Swapped my mule and got me a goat;
When I got on him, he wouldn't tote.
Chorus
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Swapped my goat and got me a sheep;
Then I rode myself to sleep.
Chorus
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10. |
Swapped my sheep and got me a cow;
And in that trade I just learned how.
Chorus
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Swapped my cow and got me a calf;
In that trade I just lost half.
Chorus
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Swapped my calf and got me a hen;
Oh, what a pretty thing I had then.
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Swapped my hen and got me a rat;
Put it on a haystack away from the cat.
Chorus
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Swapped my rat and got me a mouse;
It tail caught a-fire and burned up my house.
Chorus
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Swapped my mouse and got me a mole;
The dog-gone thing went straight to it's hole.
Chorus
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