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"I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad"
       
     
"I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad"
 


"I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad," Lyrics, Text Format



Introducing the raised/natural supertonic (2, Ri, D# on recorder, with the popular chorus from a turn of the century song.

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Description
 
  • Grade: Fifth

  • Origin: USA - words: William Dillion - music: Harry Von Tilzer (1911)

  • Key: A Flat Major

  • Time: 2/4

  • Form: through composed

  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti |
    | ta ta | ta/ ti | syncopation

  • Pitches: intermediate: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Ri Mi - raised/natural supertonic (2, Ri)

  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi (m3), So/Do (P4), Do\La (m3), Do/La (m3), Do\So (P4), La/Re (P4), Re/Ri (m2), Ri/Mi8 (m2), Ti\So (M3)

  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; stepping up chromatically Re/Ri/Mi (Bb/B/C), tied notes, natural sign

  • Key Words: Mother's day, turn of the century popular song, 2nd most popular song in 1911, married, pearl, old fashioned, heart, true, nobody else

  • Recorder: intermediate: introducing D#

A popular barbershop quarter selection best know for the chorus represented here.


 

"I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad"

I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad.
She was a pearl, and the only girl that Daddy every had;
A good old fashioned girl
with heart so true,
One who loves nobody else but you;
I want a girl, just like the girl that married dear old Dad.

 

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