Introducing the dotted quarter, the descending dominate
octave skip (So\So), and farming vocabulary from England.
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- Grade: Second
- Origin: England - Traditional
- Key: F Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: ABAC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
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ti ti ti ta ti | ta ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Do/So, So\Mi, So\So descending dominate octave skip
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, octave skip
- Key Words: world geography, earth science, England farming, holly, whistle, ivy, ploughed, morning, rams horn, sowed, peppercorn, bramble brush, reaped, penknife, barn, threshed, goose quill, mill, miller; contraction: he'd (he would)
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"Sing Ivy"
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My father he left me three acres of land,
Sing ivy, sing ivy!
My father he left me three acres of land,
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
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I ploughed it one morning with a rams horn,
Sing ivy, sing ivy!
And sowed it all over with one peppercorn,
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
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I harrowed it next with a bramble bush,
Sing ivy, sing ivy!
And reaped it all with my little penknife,
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy. |
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The mice for me, carried it into the barn,
Sing ivy, sing ivy!
And there I threshed it with a goose quill,
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
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The cat she carried it unto the mill,
Sing ivy, sing ivy!
And the miller he said that he'd work with a will,
Sing holly, go whistle and ivy. |
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