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Introducing the grace note.
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Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Traditional American, US Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti | ta ta | ti ti ta | ta/ ti |
- Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: beginners: Re/Fa, Do/So, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, grace note (a musical note printed in small type and not counted in rhythm)
- Key Words: goose, aunt, feather, bed, died, mill pond, head, goslings, goslin’s (goslings), scratch, bread, crying, gander, weeping
- Keyboard: beginners: wonderful five finger exercise for left, right, and two hands together
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Go tell Aunt Rhody, Go tell Aunt Rhody, Go tell Aunt Rhody, The old gray goose is dead. |
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2. | The one she’s been saving, The one she’s been saving, The one she’s been saving, To make a feather bed. |
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3. | She died in the mill pond, She died in the mill pond, She died in the mill pond, Standing on her head. |
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4. | She left nine little goslin’s, She left nine little goslin’s, She left nine little goslin’s, To scratch for their own bread. |
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5. | The goslings are crying, The goslings are crying, The goslings are crying, Because their mother’s dead. |
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6. | The gander is weeping, The gander is weeping, The gander is weeping, Because his wife is dead. |
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