Advanced syncopation on the second quarter of the second beat, the second half of the second beat, and the second half of the first beat.
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- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA - African American Spiritual, cir. 1872
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABA, refrain/verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ri | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation, | ti ta ti | syncopation, |
ti ti ti ri ti |
| ta (ti) ti | ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi
- Intervals: intermediate: Mi\Do\La descending vi arpeggio (Em), La/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Do, Do\La, Do\So - contrasting the descending intervals Do\La and Do\So
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, fermata, Da Capo al Fine, Fine, two double barlines, syncopation
- Key Words: USA history, sacred, Civil Rights song, Underground Railroad, African American history, gospel train, whistle, curve, loosened, steam engine, steam brakes, nerve, fare, cheap, rich, poor, second class, aboard, difference; abbreviations; comin' (coming), blowin' (blowing), rumblin' (rumbling)strainin' (straining), ev'ry (every); contractions: there's (there is), train's (train is), she's (she is)
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"Get on Board"
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Get on board, little children,
Get on board, little children,
Get on board, little children,
There's room for many a more.
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The gospel train's a-comin',
I see it close at hand
I hear the whistle blowin'
And rumblin' through the land. |
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Refrain |
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I hear that train a-comin';
She's comin' round the curve.
She's loosened all her steam and breaks
And strainin' ev'ry nerve. |
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Refrain |
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The fare is cheap and all can go;
The rich and poor are there.
No second class aboard this train;
No difference in the fare. |
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Refrain |
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Back to top. |
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