Excellent song to assess beginning grade level skills.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Western Folk Ballad
- Key: F Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: staves: ABAB – song: AA, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta/ ti ti ti | syncopation, | ta/a ti/ ri | syncopation - Pitches: beginners: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: beginners: Do\So (P4), So/Mi (M6), Mi\Do (M3), Re\So (P5), So/Ti (M3),
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, verse/refrain (same), syncopation, ballad
- Key Words: USA history/geography: California Gold Rush; cavern, canyon, excavating, mine, dwelt, miner, forty-niner, daughter, darling, forever, dreadful, fairy, herring, topses, sandals, ducklings, stubbed, splinter, foaming brine, ruby, bubbles, alas, swimmer, peak, pine, oughter, churchyard, myrtle, boughs, entwine, roses, posies, fertilize, doth, haunt, robed, garments, soaked
1. | In a cavern by a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a miner, forty-niner, And his daughter Clementine. |
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Oh, my daring, oh, my darling, Oh, my darling Clementine, You are lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry Clementine. |
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Light she was and like a fairy, And her shoes were number nine, Herring boxes, without topses, Sandals were for Clementine. |
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3. | Drove she ducklings to the water Ev’ry morning just at nine, Stubbed her toe against a splinter, Fell into the foaming brine. |
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4. | Ruby lips above the water, Blowing bubbles, soft and fine, But, alas, I was no swimmer, So I lost my Clementine. |
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5. | Then the miner, forty-niner, Soon began to peak and pine, Thought he oughter join his daughter, Now he’s with his Clementine. |
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6. | In a corner of the churchyard, Where the myrtle boughs entwine, Grow the roses and the posies, Fertilized by Clementine. |
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7. | In my dreams she still doth haunt me, Robed in garments soaked in brine; How in life I used to hug her, Now she’s dead, I draw the line. |
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