• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – African American Work Song
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: AB – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a | (ta) ta ta ta |ti ta ta/ (ti) ti | syncopation, | ti ta ta/a/ | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ ta| syncopation | ta/ ta/a/ | syncopation, | (ta) ta ta ta | syncopation
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi fa so la
• Intervals: intermediate: so\mi (m3), mi/la (P4)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, two double barlines, call/response, verse/refrain, syncopation on the second half of the first, second, and fourth beats (& of 1, & of 2, & of 4), repeated syncopated entrances on the second beat, and syncopated rhythmic divisions of half beats into groups of 3-3-2
  
• Key Words: USA history, African American histroy, Georgia Sea Islands, slave ships, slave trade, thought, captain, sailing day, boat, dock bar, boat dock, knocked, end of a spar (thick, strong pole), pay, money down
  

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  NOTE: refrain is composed of the calls and responses:
  measures 10-11 are syncopated variations of measures 2-3,
  measures 12-13 changes one pitch from measures 4-5,
  measures 14-17 mirror measures 6-9 omitting one beat/pitch

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