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- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: USA, Alabama - Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: ABaC (repeated)
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
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ta ti ti ti ti |
ta ti ta/ | syncopation
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
- Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Re\Ti, Ti\So, Re\So, So/Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, tied note, vocal slur, singing alone and with others, repeat sign, walking/dancing with steady beat, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti's), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
- Key Words: USA geography: Alabama; greeting song, game song, washing, starching, ironing, sweeping, dead
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"Jenny Jones"
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We've come to see Miss Jenny Jones,
Miss Jenny Jones, Miss Jenny Jones.
We've come to see Miss Jenny Jones,
And how is she today?
Miss Jenny Jones is a-washing,
A-washing, a-washing.
Miss Jenny is a-washing,
You can't see her today. |
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We're right glad/sorry to hear it,
To hear it, to hear it.
We're right glad/sorry to hear it,
And how are you today? |
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-starching, etc. |
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-ironing, etc.
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-sweeping, etc. |
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-sick in bed, etc. |
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-dying, etc. |
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We've come to see, etc.
Miss Jenny is a-dead, etc. |
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