Long, Long Ago

Practicing an ascending major sixth (So/Mi).

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: A Major
Time: 3/4
Form: rhythm: ABAB – pitches: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta | ta/ ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, So/Mi (M6), Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; dotted quarter syncopation
Key Words: USA, world geography: Bethlehem; Christmas carol, sacred, Bible story, birth of Jesus (Christ), winds, olive tree, softly, sheep, hillside, whiter, snow, angels, watching, bent low, songs of joy, manger bed, cradled; abbreviation: ’round (round)

**“Long, Long Ago”**

	1.	Winds through the olive trees, Softly did blow, ‘Round little Bethlehem, Long, long ago.

	2.	Sheep on the hillside lay, Whiter than snow, Angels were watching them, Long, long ago.

	3.	Then from the happy sky, Angels bent low, Singing their songs of joy, Long, long ago.

	4.	Then from a manger bed, Cradled, we know, Christ came to Bethlehem, Long, long ago.

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Long-Legged Sailor

Introducing the fermata with a challenging ‘hand jive.’

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Game Chant
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi
Intervals: beginners: Do/Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, multiple fermatas
Key Words: game song, none-sense song, sailor, meet, met, long, short, knock-kneed, bow-legged, cross-legged
Recorder: beginners: grades 3-5, first Beginning Recorder Song – for setting up recorder center/station and teaching the first recorder song see: Lesson Plan
Keyboard: beginners: excellent three finger exercise for left, right, and two hands at once

**“Long-Legged Sailor”**

	1.	Did you ever, ever, ever, in your long legged life Meet a long-legged sailor with a long legged wife? No I never, never, never, in my long legged life Met a long-legged sailor with a long legged wife.

	2.	Did you ever, ever, ever, in your short legged life Meet a short-legged sailor with a short legged wife? No I never, never, never, in my short legged life Met a short-legged sailor with a short legged wife.

	3.	Did you ever, ever, ever, in your knock-kneed life Meet a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife? No I never, never, never, in my knock-kneed life Met a knock-kneed sailor with a knock-kneed wife.

	4.	Did you ever, ever, ever, in your bow-legged life Meet a bow-legged sailor with a bow-legged wife? No I never, never, never, in my bow-legged life Met a bow-legged sailor with a bow-legged wife.

	5.	Did you ever, ever, ever, in your cross-legged life Meet a cross-legged sailor with a cross-legged wife? No I never, never, never, in my cross-legged life Met a cross-legged sailor with a cross-legged wife.

Hand Jive: “have” – arms down, swing to the right “you” – swing to the left “ever” – pat own thighs “ever” – clap own hands together “ever” – with partner, clap right hands together “in your” – clap own hands together “long” – spread hands wide apart “legged” – clap own hands together “life” – with partner, clap left hands together “meet a” – clap own hands together “long” – spread hands wide apart “legged” – clap own hands together “sailor” – salute with right hand “with a” – clap own hands together “long” – spread hands wide apart “legged” – clap own hands together “wife” – clap both hands together with your partner’s hands. Verse 2: “short” – hold hands close together in front of you. Verse 3: “knock-kneed” – close hands to make fists. Verse 4: “bow-legged” – cup hands together ( ). Verse 5: “cross-legged” – cross arms to make an “X.”

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Lone Star Trail

Mastering the intervals of the tonic chord. How does adding the passing tones Fa (4th) and the Re (2nd) to the end change the feeling of the tune.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – American Cowboy Song
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABbC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta ti ti |
| ta/a |
Pitches: beginners: So Do Re Mi Fa So – adding the 4th (Fa) to the pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\So, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\So descending dominate octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied note, descending octave skip, ascending tonic arpeggio
Key Words: cowboy life, western, Texas, Lone Star State, Lone Star Trail, trail, punching cattle, yippy, daylight, moon, shining, bright, bacon, beans, prairie, hay, cowboy food; abbreviations: morn (morning), punchin’ (punching); contraction: wouldn’t (would not)

**“Lone Star Trail”**

	1.	I started on the trail on June twenty-third, I been punchin’ Texas cattle on the Lone Star Trail;
		Refrain:
		Singin’ Ki yi yippy, yippy yay, yippy yay! Singin’ Ki yi yippy, yippy yay!
	2.	I get up in the morn before the daylight, And before I go to sleep the moon is shining bright.
		Refrain
	3.	It’s bacon and it’s beans almost every day, But I wouldn’t mind a change if it was prairie hay.
		Refrain
	4.	My feet are in the stirrups and my rope is on the side, Show me a horse that I can’t ride.

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Lonesome Valley

Advanced syncopation, in 2/2 time (cut time), carried across the barline, triplets, and proper grammatical use of pronouns.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: G Major
Time: 2/2 – advanced: cut time
Form: through composed
Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/_|_a ti ti ti |
| ti ta/a_|_a ti ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ti-ti-ti ta/_|_a ti ti ti | triplet syncopation,
| ta/ ti | ti ta ti | syncopation – (_=tied note)
Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Do\La/Do, Mi/So8, So8\Mi Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; cut time, pickup beat, triplet, tied notes, vocal slur, phrases beginning on the second half of the first beat (and of 1) and the second beat
Key Words: USA history, African American history, spiritual, sacred, Jesus, Bible Story, Jesus, walked, lonesome, valley, walk; pronouns: He, Him, Himself, you, yourself, yourselves, we, us, ourselves – note the capitalization when referencing Jesus

**“Lonesome Valley”**

		1.	Jesus walked this lonesome valley, He had to walk it by Himself, Oh, nobody else could walk it for Him. He had to walk it for Himself.
		2.	We must walk this lonesome valley, We have to walk it by ourselves, Oh, nobody else can walk it for us. We have to walk it for ourselves
		3.	You must go and stand your trial, You have to stand it by yourselves, Oh, nobody else can stand it for you. You have to stand it for yourself.

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London’s Burning

Singing in two parts. Introducing the
descending dominate octave So\So.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England, Traditional Round
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: ABCA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ti ti | ta/a ta |
| ta/a ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, Mi/So, So\So (descending dominant octave)
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, half, eighth; pickup beat, singing in 2 parts, 2 part round
Key Words: world geography: London, England; fire engine, putting out fires, fetch, fireman, civil servant

**“London’s Burning”**
London’s burning, London’s burning, Fetch the engines, fetch the engines. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Pour on water, pour on water.

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London Bridge

Dancing around the 5th (So) and skipping home to 1 (Do).

Description

Grade: First
Origin: English Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti ti ti ti ta |
| ti ti ta ti ti ta | ta ta ti \ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So\Re, Re/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; tied notes, centered around the 5th (So) until the last note
Key Words: geography, Great Britain, England, London, play song, play ground song, science, metals, iron, silver, gold, salutation: my fair lady, Tower of London, arch, arch bridge

Game instructions:

Two students join hands high to form an arch bridge.
The remaining students march under the bridge while singing the first verse.
At the last word, the arms of the bridge are lowered to capture the student passing under the bridge.
The captured students are kept in an area known as “Tower of London.”
When the last student is caught, the bridge chases all students to capture the students who will build the next bridge.

Also known as “My Fair Lady.”

**“London Bridge”**

		1.	London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady

		2.	Build it up with iron bars, Iron bars, iron bars. Build it up with iron bars, My fair lady.

		3.	Iron bars will bend and break, Bend and break, bend and break. Iron bars will bend and break, My fair lady.

		4.	Build it up with silver and gold, Silver and gold, silver and gold, Build it up with silver and god, My fair lady.

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Loch Lomond

Intermediate syncopation stepping and skipping up and down the staff, including two tonic arpeggios, I6 (F6): Do/Mi/So/La.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: Scotland, United Kingdom – Folk Song (1841)
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: through composed*
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta/a ta ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Do\La (m3), Do/Mi/So/La8 ascending tonic arpeggio w/6th
(I6, F6), So8\Mi (m3), Mi/So8 (m3), So/Ti (M3)
Musical Elements: notes: half. dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation on the fourth quarter of the second and fourth beats (uh of 2, uh of 4)
Key Words: world geography: Loch Lomond**, Scotland, Highland Boundary Fault (separating the lowland from the highland), Great Britain, freshwater loch (lake), high road, low road; Old English: afore (before), ye (you) , bonnie (pretty); contractions: ye’ll (you will), I’ll (I will)
Recorder: intermediate: syncopation on the fourth quarter of the second and fourth beats (uh of 2, uh of 4), ascending tonic arpeggio w/6th (I6, F6), excellent practice moving up and down the staff by steps and skips

*Only the chorus is represented here.
** Lomond: large freshwater lake containing many islands.

**“Loch Lomond”**
Oh! Ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road, And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye; But me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

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Little Tommy Tucker

Introducing the sharp fifth, Si, and an ascending
diminished fourth (d4), Si/Do.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme, circa. 1765
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ta ti ti ta ti ti | ta ta ta (ta) |
Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So Si La Ti Do Re Mi, raised/sharped fifth, Si, extended range
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do\Mi, Do/Mi8, Do\La, So\Re/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do/La, Si/Do (d4), La\Fa, Mi/Do, So\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; uncommon intervals, 2 measure rhythm patterns, vocal slur, sharped dominant (Si), diminished fourth Si/Do (d4)
Key Words: world geography: England; bread, butter, cut, knife, married, wife, orphans, begging, poor

The phrase “Little Tommy Tucker” was a colloquial term used to describe orphans. Singing for his supper refers to begging.

**“Little Tommy Tucker”**
Little Tom Tucker Sings for his supper. What shall we give him? White bread and butter. How shall he cut it Without a knife? How will he be married Without a wife?

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Little Tommy Tinker

Four part round concentrating on the intervals of the tonic triad
and introducing the dotted half note.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme – Traditional Round
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a/a (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So Do
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi/So, Do\So, So\Mi, So/Do – intervals of the tonic triad
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; vocal slur, singing in parts, reinforces descending perfect fourth, Do\So, singing in parts, advanced: four part round: each part begins when the previous section begins the second staff/line
Key Words: world geography: England; clinker (hot ash or cinder), innocent, cry, sat, little, tinker, poor, guy

**“Little Tommy Tinker”**
Little Tommy Tinker Sat upon a clinker And he began to cry: “Ma! Ma!” Poor little innocent guy.

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Little Things

Syncopated rhythms, an eighth rest on the last beat,
and tied notes make a challenging melodic rhythm.

Description

Grade: Third
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: A flat Major
Time: 6/8
Form: rhythm: ABABC – pitches: ABCDD
Rhythm: intermediate: syncopation: | ta ti ta ti |
| ta/ ta (ti) | ta ti ti ti ti | ta/a (ti) | ta/ ta ti |
| ta/a ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\Mi, Mi/So, Re/So, So/Mi, Mi\Do, Re\So, Do\So
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; syncopation, tied notes, vocal slurs
Key Words: character education, sacred, earth science, drops, water, grains, mighty, ocean, beauteous, land, moments, humble, ages, eternity, errors, lead, soul, paths, virtue, sin, stray, deeds, kindness, love, earth, Eden, Heaven, above, seeds, mercy, sown, youthful, hands, bless, nations, heathen, far; abbreviations: tho’ (though), oft (often)

**“Little Things”**

	1.	Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the beauteous land, And the beauteous land.
	2.	And the little moments, Humble tho’ they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity, Of eternity.
	3.	So our little errors, Lead the soul away, From the paths of virtue, Oft in sin to stray, Oft in sin to stray.
	4.	Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden Like the Heaven above, Like the Heaven above.
	5.	Little seeds of mercy, Sown by youthful hands, Grow to bless the nations Far in heathen lands, Far in heathen lands.

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