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Excellent for assessing grade level beginning reading skills.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA, North Carolina – Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta |
| ta/a/a ta | ta/a ti ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ti ti ta ta
| ta ta/a ta | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La – extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: So\Mi (m3), Do/So8 (P5), Mi/So (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Do\La/Do (m3), Do\So/Do (P5); distinguishing between the minor third (m3) Do\La/Do and the perfect fourth (P4, Do\So/Do)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, straight and dotted syncopation, pentatonic scale, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Appalachia, North Carolina, mountain music, courting song, love song, apple, passed, bite, along, needle, sew, fine, coat tails, road, ought, down south, sweet, honeybees, swarm, shapped, parlor, coolded, mortal man, mouth; abbreviations: hangin’ (hanging), ev’ry (every), contractions: she’d (she would), I’d (I would) pret’ist (prettiest), that’s (that is)
- Recorder: intermediate: syncopated repeated pitches
| 1. | I wish I was an apple, A hangin’ from a tree, And ev’ry time my Cindy passed, She’d take a bite of me. |
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| Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, Get along home, Cindy, Cindy, I’ll marry you some day. |
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I wish I had a needle, As fine as I could sew, I’d sew that gal to my coat tails And down the road I’d go. |
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| 3. | You ought to see my Cindy, She live away down south, She’s so sweet the honeybees All swarm around her mouth. |
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| 4. | She took me to her parlor, She cooled me with her fan, She said I was the pret’ist thing That’s shaped like mortal man. |
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