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Introducing syncopation with English and American history.
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Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: Anglo American – Traditional
- Key: A flat Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta ta |
| ta/a ta/a | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation | ta ta ta/a | - Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Re\So, So/Do, Ti\So, Do\La, Ti/Re
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; syncopation
- Key Words: USA history, world geography, Seven Years’ War, state anthem: Connecticut, doodle (German origins; simpleton), macaroni (1770’s wig) Yankee (citizen of north-east USA), riding, pony, feather, dandy (gentleman), step to music, handy, Captain Gooding, hasty pudding (quick-recipe British dessert from 1742), Squire David (English country gentleman), wasted, Captain Washington, slapping, stallion, million, smother, scampered; abbreviations: ev’ry (every), sav’ed (saved); hyphenated: a-giving (a giving)
| 1. | Yankee Doodle went to town, A riding on a pony; He stuck a feather in his cap, And called it macaroni. |
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| Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. |
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Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding; There we saw the men and boys, As thick as hasty pudding. |
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| 3. | And there we saw a thousand men, As rich as Squire David; And what they wasted ev’ry day, I wish it could be sav’ed. |
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| 4. | And there was Captain Washington, Upon a slapping stallion, A-giving orders to his men; I guess there was a million. |
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| 5. | But I can’t tell you half I saw, They kept up such a smother; So I took my hat off, made a bow, And scampered home to mother. |
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