St. Paul’s Steeple

Singing the descending C Major scale, with arpeggios
built on the tonic I7, second II7, and fourth IV7.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABC
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
| ta/a (ta) ta |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do – singing the descending C Major scale
Intervals: advanced: Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do\La\Fa\Re descending II7 (Dm7) arpeggio, Re/Ti, Ti\So\Mi\Do descending I7 (CM7) arpeggio, Do/Mi, La\Re, Do\So\Mi descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/Fa/La ascending IV7 (FM7)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter; rest: quarter; pickup beat, stepping down the C Major scale, ascending tonic octave skip, I7, II7, and IV7 arpeggios
Key Words: world geography, London, England, Steeple of St Paul, Catholic Church, English rhyme, apples, tree, hooks, hedge, London Bridge, harvesting apples, picking apples, apple picking
Recorder: advanced: practicing the descending C Major scale, ascending tonic octave skip C/C, and arpeggios: I7, II7, and IV7

**“St. Paul’s Steeple”**
Upon Paul’s steeple stands a tree, As full of apples as can be. The little boys of London Town They run with hooks to pull them down; And then they run from hedge to hedge Until they come to London Bridge.

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Sourwood Mountain

Extending the vocal range with the pentatonic scale.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA, New England, Appalachia – Traditional
Key: E flat Major
Time: C – common time (4/4)
Form: rhythm ABAB – pitches: ABCD – song AB
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a ta/a | ti ti ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do8\So\Mi descending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So, Do\La, So/Do, Do/La
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, common time (4/4), tonic arpeggio, extending the vocal range
Key Words: USA geography, New England, Appalachia, courting song, chickens, nonsense phrase/words, pretty, count, darling, daisy, crazy, swimming, across, river, winter, shiver, river, step; colloquial words: holler (down in the valley), foller (follow); contractions: can’t (cannot), I’ll (I will), won’t (will not); abbreviations: a-crowin’ (a crowing), ’em (them)

**“Sourwood Mountain”**

		1.	Chickens a-crowin’ on Sourwood Mountain, Hey, hey, diddle um day. So many pretty girls, I can’t count ’em, Hey, hey, diddle um day.
		2.	I call my darling a blue-eyed daisy, Hey, hey, diddle um day. If she won’t have me, I’ll go crazy, Hey, hey, diddle um day.
		3.	My true love lives at the head of the holler, Hey, hey, diddle um day. She won’t come and I won’t foller, Hey, hey, diddle um day.
		4.	Ducks go a-swimming across the river, Hey, hey, diddle um day. And in the winter, we sure do shiver, Hey, hey, diddle um day.
		5.	My true love lives over the river, Hey, hey, diddle um day. A few more steps and I’ll be with her, Hey, hey, diddle um day.

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Sing All Along the Way

Introducing syncopation with sixteenth notes while
moving to a steady beat.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: E flat Major
Time: 2/2 – counted in 4/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ta ti ta ta | syncopation, |
| ta/a (ta) ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, La\Mi
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, fermata, ending the first phrase on the third (Mi)
Key Words: USA history, African American history, singing and moving to music, along, dance, clap, skip, spin; contraction: gonna (going to), I’m (I am)

“Sing All Along the Way”

1.Oh, I’m gonna sing, gonna sing, gonna sing,
Gonna sing all along the way!
Oh, I’m gonna sing, gonna sing, gonna sing,
Gonna sing all along the way!

2.

Oh, I’m gonna dance, gonna dance, gonna dance,
Gonna dance all along the way!
Oh, I’m gonna dance, gonna dance, gonna dance,
Gonna dance all along the way!  3.Oh, I’m gonna clap, gonna clap, gonna clap,
Gonna clap all along the way!
Oh, I’m gonna clap, gonna clap, gonna clap,
Gonna clap all along the way!   4.Oh, I’m gonna skip, gonna skip, gonna skip,
Gonna skip all along the way!
Oh, I’m gonna skip, gonna skip, gonna skip,
Gonna skip all along the way!   5.Oh, I’m gonna spin, gonna spin, gonna spin,
Gonna spin all along the way!
Oh, I’m gonna spin, gonna spin, gonna spin,
Gonna spin all along the way!

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Shepherd, Shepherd – NEW

Introducing a descending augmented fourth or tritone La\me.

Description

Grade: Third (3)
Origin: African American Spiritual
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: Rhythm: AABCD – Pitches: ABACD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ta/ ti ri | ta/a
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re me Mi Fa So La – lowered third
Intervals: advanced: La\me (A4 Augmented 4th, also known as a Tritone: three whole tones/steps), Do/Mi\Do (M3), So\Do (P5), Do/Fa (P4), Do/So (P5)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter; Augmented 4th, also known as a Tritone: three whole tones/steps, tied notes, lowered third (me)
Key Words: African American Spiritual, African American history, sacred, shepherd, sheep, lambs, stray, contraction: where’d (where did), O (oh)

**“Shepherd, Shepherd”**

	1.	Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you lose your sheep? O, the sheep all gone a stray. The sheep all gone a stray.

	2.	Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? Shepherd, Shepherd, where’d you leave your lambs? O, the lambs all gone a stray. The lambs all gone a stray.

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She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain

Beginners rhythm with intermediate intervals and tonic arpeggios.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Appalachian Mountain Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: rhythm: AABA – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\La, So\Mi, Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio, Do\Mi, Mi/So8, So8\Mi, La/Re, So/Mi, Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tonic arpeggio
Key Words: USA geography, Appalachian Mountains, railroad work song, spiritual, mountain, horses, whoa, meet, rooster, hack, chicken and dumplings, shout, hallelujah; abbreviations: comin’ (coming), drivin’ (driving); contractions: she’ll (she will), we’ll (we will)

Original spiritual: “When the Chariot Comes”

**“She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain”**

	1.	She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, when she comes, when she comes. She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, when she comes, when she comes. She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, She’ll be comin’ round the mountain, when she comes, when she comes.
	2.	She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes; Whoa back! She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes; Whoa back! She’ll be drivin’ six white horses, She’ll be drivin’ six white horses, She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes; When she comes, whoa back!
	3.	Oh we’ll all come out to meet her when she comes; Hi there. Oh we’ll all come out to meet her when she comes; Hi there. Oh we’ll all come out to meet her, Oh we’ll all come out to meet her, Oh we’ll all come out to meet her when she comes; When she comes, hi there, whoa back!
	4.	We will kill the old red rooster when she comes; Hack, hack! We will kill the old red rooster when she comes; Hack, hack! We will kill the old red rooster, We will kill the old red rooster, We will kill the old red rooster when she comes; When she comes, hi there, whoa back, hack, hack!
	5.	We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes; Yum, yum. We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes; Yum, yum. We will all have chicken and dumplings, We will all have chicken and dumplings, We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes; When she comes, hi there, whoa back, hack, hack, yum, yum.
	6.	We will shout “Hallelujah” when she comes; Hallelujah! We will shout “Hallelujah” when she comes; Hallelujah! We will shout “Hallelujah,” We will shout “Hallelujah,” We will shout “Hallelujah” when she comes; When she comes, hi there, whoa back, hack, hack, yum, yum, Hallelujah!

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Sheep Shearing

Arpeggios: So\Mi\Do, Do/Mi/So, Mi\Do\So, and Fa\Re\Ti
make sheep shearing fun!

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: Sweden – Folk Song
Key: F Major
Time: 3/4
Form: verse: ABAb – refrain: AB – song AB verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta |
| ta ta (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa\Re\Ti descending arpeggio, Ti/Re, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, verse/refrain, two double bars
Key Words: world geography, Sweden, animal science, sheep farming, sheep shearing, harvesting wool, spinning wool, wheel, clipping, stockings, spinning wheel, spinning wheel sound, knit, scarf, dance, morning; contraction: we’re (we are)

**“Sheep Shearing”**

		1.	Go get the sheep, we’re clipping today, Clipping their wool, yes, clipping their wool So we can knit some stockings for you, Then we shall dance till morning.
			Refrain
			Surr, surr, surr, surr, surr, surr, Wheel spins around, now hear the sound; Surr, surr, surr, surr, surr, surr, Then we shall dance till morning.
		2.	Tell mother dear we’re carding today, Carding the wool, yes, carding the wool So we can knit a scarf for her, too, Then we shall dance till morning.
			Refrain

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See Saw Margery Daw

Introducing dotted quarter note with syncopation in 6/8 time.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCb
Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta/ |
| ta ti ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So/Mi\So, Mi/La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; syncopation
Key Words: playground song, work song, world geography, England, work ethics, master, penny, faster; contraction: can’t (cannot)
Keyboard: beginners: one hand exercise for right, left, and two hands together

**“See Saw Margery Daw”**
See Saw Margery Daw, Jack shall have a new master; He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work any faster.

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The Robin

Introducing the raised or sharped 4th (Fi) and
singing bird calls with syncopation.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: Unknown – Old Song
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: staves: ABCCDEDF – song: AB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti (ti) ti | ti ti ti ti (ti) ti ri | ta/ ti (ti) ti ri | syncopation, | ta ti ti (ti) ti ri |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa Fi So La Ti Do – sharped 4th (Fi)
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi, Mi/Fi, Ti\Re, Ti\So, So/Do\So, So\Re, Mi/La, Fa/La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, arpeggio, raised 4th (Fi), fermata
Key Words: song birds, bird sounds, singing bird calls, animal science, robin, Spring, flew, orchard, sing, song, heart, light, right, tonight, mate, nest, nobody

**“The Robin”**
A sweet little robin one morning in Spring, Flew into the orchard and stopped there to sing; His heart was so light and his song was so right, I asked him what song he was singing tonight. “Tirileelee, Tirileelee; Nobody knows but my mate and me:” Tirileelee, Tirileelee; Up in the nest with our little birds three.”

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Oliver Cromwell

Syncopation and a descending tonic octave skip.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: England – Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 6/8
Form: AA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ta (ti) | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do8\So, So\Mi, So\Do, Do/Do ascending tonic octave skip, Do/La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth, syncopation
Key Words: world geography, England, buried, dead, grew, apple tree, ripe, fall, gather, rose, drop, hippety hop, saddle, bridle, lie, shelf, want, yourself, hee haw

**“Oliver Cromwell”**

		1.	Oliver Cromwell lay buried and dead, Hee haw, buried and dead. There grew an old apple tree over his head, Hee haw, over his head.
		2.	The apples were ripe and ready to fall, Hee haw, ready to fall. There came an old woman to gather them all, Hee haw, gather them all.
		3.	Oliver rose and he gave her a drop, Hee-haw, gave her a drop, Which made the old woman go hippety hop, Hee-haw, hippety hop.
		4.	The saddle and bridle, they lie on the shelf, Hee haw, lie on the shelf. If you want any more you can sing it yourself, Hee haw, sing it yourself.

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Old Woman and the Pig

Syncopation and two tonic arpeggios.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABA
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta/a ta/a | ta/a/a ta |
| ti ti ti ti ta/ ti | syncopation | ti ti ta ta ti ti |
| ta/a/a |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/So/Do8 ascending tonic arpeggio, Do8\So, Mi/So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, arpeggio, syncopation, vocal slur
Key Words: farming, farm animals, pig, pig sounds: oink, heap, harm, rooting, barn, died, want, breath, awful, death, grief; contractions: didn’t (did not), wasn’t (was not); abbreviation: ’cause (because)

**“Old Woman and the Pig”**

		1.	There was an old woman and she had a little pig, Oink, oink, oink. There was an old woman and she had a little pig, He didn’t cost much ’cause he wasn’t very big. Oink, oink, oink.
		2.	This little pig did a heap of harm, Oink, oink, oink. This little pig did a heap of harm, Rooting around in the old woman’s barn. Oink, oink, oink.
		3.	The little old pig, she up and she died, Oink, oink, oink. The little old pig, she up and she died, The old woman, she cried and she cried. Oink, oink, oink.
		4.	The old man died for want of breath, Oink, oink, oink. The old man died for want of breath, And wasn’t that an awful death? Oink, oink, oink.
		5.	The old woman died for want of grief, Oink, oink, oink. The old woman died for want of grief, And wasn’t that a great relief? Oink, oink, oink.
		6.	So there they lay all one, two, three, Oink, oink, oink. So there they lay all one, two, three, The woman, the man, and the little piggie. Oink, oink, oink.

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3rd Grade