Syncopated rhythms on the last quarter of the second and fourth beats, experiencing the interval So\Re, ending two phrases on a leading tone (Re), and extended phrases promoting breath support.
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- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA - Cowboy Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: staves: ABabCc - phrases: AaBb - song: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ta ta |syncopation, | ta/a/a ta |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a/a/a | ta ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta ti/ ri ti ti ta | syncopation
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do\So, Mi\Do, Do/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So, So\Re
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, quarter beat syncopation, two double bars, tonic arpeggio, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA geography, cowboy song, campfire song, cowboy life, herding cows, cowboy words, husky, brute, cattle chute, coral, branded, snoot, chuck (food), beans, meat, wrangler, britches, grease your gills; contractions: ain't (is not), there's (there is), wrangler's (wrangler is); abbreviation: scourin' (scouring)
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"The Big Coral"
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That big husky brute from the cattle chute,
Press along to the big coral,
He should be branded on the snoot,
Press along to the big coral. |
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Refrain: |
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Press along cowboy, press along with a cowboy yell,
Press along cowboy, press along to the big coral.
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The chuck we get ain't fit to eat,
Press along to the big coral,
There's rocks in the beans and sand in the meat,
Press along to the big coral. |
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The wrangler's out a scourin' the hills,
Press along to the big coral,
So hop in your britches and grease up your gills,
Press along to the big coral,
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Refrain |
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