Riding in the Buggy

"Ridding in the Buggy" Lyrics, Text Format

Dotted quarters and eighths will challenge your best readers.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – South Carolina Folk Song
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ri ti ri ti ri ti | ti/ ri ti ti |
syncopation, | ta/ ri ti (ti) | ti/ ri ti ti ri | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta/ (ti) | ta (ta) |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Do\La, La\Mi, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth, syncopation
Key Words: USA geography, South Carolina, buggy, ridding, morn, darling

**“Riding in the Buggy”**
Ridding in the buggy, Miss Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane, Miss Mary Jane, Ridding in the buggy, Miss Mary Jane, I’m a long ways from home. Who morns for me? Who morns for me? Who morns for me, my darling, Who morns for me?

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Revolutionary Tea

Beginners syncopation and range with four intervals:
minor third, major third, perfect 4th and perfect fifth.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Revolutionary Tavern Song
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABACC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ta/a ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti ri |
syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Re/Fa (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Do\La/Do (m3), Re\So (P5), Do/Fa (P4)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, tied notes, vocal slur, syncopation
Key Words: USA history, American Revolution, colonial history, Boston Tea Party, USA geography: Boston, Massachusetts; Queen of England, England, rich, sea, daughter, new country, ocean, between, replied, shall, quoth (quote), willing, fair price, tea, three-penny tax, reddened, rage, quite, proper, old lady, servant, packed, budget, three pence a pound, large, familie (family), conveyed, ocean’s side, bouncing girl, poured, dark, boiling, tide, island Queen, steeped, enough, never, contractions: shan’t (shall not) , ax (ask), you’re (you are), ’tis (it is)

**“Revolutionary Tea”**

	1.	There was a rich lady lived over the sea, And she was an island queen. Her daughter lived off on the new country, With an ocean if water between, With an ocean if water between.
	2.	Now mother dear mother,” the daughter replied, “I shan’t do the thing you ax. I’m willing to pay a fair price for the tea, But never the three-penny tax. But never the three-penny tax.”
	3.	“You shall,” quoth the mother, and reddened with rage, “For you’re my own daughter, you see, And sure ’tis quite proper the daughter should pay Her mother a tax on her tea, Her mother a tax on her tea.”
	4.	And so the old lady her servant called up And packed off a budget of tea; And eager for three pence a pound, she put in Enough for a large familie, Enough for a large familie.
	5.	She ordered her servants to bring home the tax, Declaring her child should obey, Or old as she was, and almost woman grown, She’d half whip her life away, She’d half whip her life away.
	6.	The tea was conveyed to the daughter’s door, All down by the ocean’s side; And the bouncing girl pour’d out every pound In the dark and boiling tide; In the dark and boiling tide.
	7.	And then she called out to the Island Queen, “Oh, mother, dear mother,” quoth she, “Your tea you may have when ’tis steep’d quite enough But never a tax from me, But never a tax from me.”

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Reuben’s Coming

Introducing the subdominant (4th, Fa), with a half note
and an ascending tonic arpeggio.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AaB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ta/a_|_a ti ti | (_=tie)
Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi Fa So – introduces the 4th, Fa
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied note, introduces half note, introducing the subdominate (4th, Fa), tonic arpeggio
Key Words: parts of a locomotive engine; throttle, boiler, wheels, rail, whistle, trains, train tracks, miles, wreck, neck, hair, head, thousand (1000)
Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together

1.Reuben’s coming down the track,
And he’s got his throttle back,
And the tracks are a’ taking him from home.

2.

If the boiler don’t bust
‘Cause it’s eat up with rust,
I’ll soon be a long ways from home.

3.

If you don’t believe I’m gone,
Look at the train I’m on;
You can hear the whistle blow a thousand miles.

4.

I’m a-going down the track;
I ain’t never coming back,
And I’ll never get no letter from my home.

5.Well, the train run so fast
Till I knowed it couldn’t last,
For the wheels was a-burning up the rail.

6.Old Reuben had a wreck
And it broke old Reuben’s neck,
And it never hurt a hair on my head.

7.Now I’m walking up the track,
Hoping I’ll get back;
I’m a thousand miles away from home.

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Red River Valley

Common time, beginning syncopation, and tonic arpeggios.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – Traditional Cowboy Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4 – common time (C)
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ta/ (ta) ti | syncopation, | ta/a (ta) ti ti | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Do\So (P4), So/Do/Mi – Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggios (I G), Re/So (P4), Fa\La (m6), So/Ti (m3)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, common time (4/4), syncopation, all verse syllables match original rhythm
Key Words: world geography: Red River Valley: Manitoba, Canada; USA geography: North Dakota, Minnesota; USA/Canada history, cowboy love song, cowboy pining song, brightened, a while, hasten, bid me adieu (French), leaving, lonely, fond, breaking, grief, causing, ocean, exchanged, mid; contractions: won’t (will not) , you’re (you are)
Recorder: intermediate: two ascending tonic arpeggios, syncopation

**“Red River Valley”**

	1.	From the valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our path for a while.

	2.	Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu But remember the Red River Valley And the cowboy who loved you so true.

	3.	Won’t you think of the valley you’re leaving Oh how lonely, how sad it will be? Oh think of the fond heart you are breaking And the grief you are causing to me.

	4.	As you go to your home by the ocean May you never forget those sweet hours That we spent in the Red River Valley And the love we exchanged mid the flowers

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Rain, Rain, Go Away

Adding the submediant (6, La) and the interval Mi/La
to the beginning Orff interval So\Mi.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: D Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABAB
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti | ta ta |
Pitches: beginners: Mi So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, Mi/La
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth
Key Words: world geography: England; rain, play, day, another, children, again, away, another, nursery rhyme
Keyboard: beginners: three finger exercise for right. left. and two hands together

Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day.

Rain, rain, go away,
All the children want to play.

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The Rainbow

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Fair Days and Stormy

Recognizing intervals of a third; line to line and space to space.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: E Flat Major
Time: 3/8
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/_|_ta/ | ti ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: advanced: So\Do, Do/Mi, Re/Fa, Fa\Re, Mi\Do, Re\Ti, Ti/Re, La\Re, Re/So, So\Mi, Mi/So, La/Do, Do\La, So\Re
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tempo: cheerfully; horizontal accent (sing/play note a little louder) poco ritardando, a tempo, pickup beat, fermata, tied notes, dynamics: crescendo, decrescendo
Key Words: weather, earth science, rainbow, sun, rain, shinning, falling, calling, glorious, beauty, combining, painted, high, abbreviation: ev’ryone (everyone)

**“The Rainbow”**
Sun shinning, rain falling, And ev’ryone calling “Oh! look at the glorious sky!” For shower and shining In beauty combining, A rainbow have painted on high.

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Raining! Raining!

“Songs of a Little Child’s Day”
Fair Days and Stormy

Beginning rhythms lead to advanced intervals, including an ascending dominate octave skip.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Emilie Poulsson, Eleanor Smith
Key: G Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AaBC
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: advanced: So\Do, Re\Ti, Re\So, So/So ascending dominate octave skip, Mi\Ti, Do/Mi, Re/Fa, Mi\Do
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, octave skip, repeat signs
Key Words: weather, earth science, trees, grasses, roots, rain, sparrow, bathing pool, whispered, bright, cool, murmured, shouted, wear, rubber boots

**“Raining! Raining!”**

		1.	“Raining! raining!” sang the sparrow, “This will fill my bathing pool.” “Raining!” whispered all the flowers, “Now we shall be bright and cool.”

		2.	“Raining!” murmured trees and grasses, “Oh, how good for thirsty roots!” “Raining! raining!” shouted Johnnie, “I can wear my rubber boots!”

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The Railroad Corral

Syncopation on 3/4: mastering ta ta/ ti (8 times), ascending and descending vi7 arpeggio (Em7) and the tonic arpeggio I (G).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: G Major
Time: 3/4
Form: AaBa
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta/ ti | syncopation (x8)
| ta ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/ ti ti |
Pitches: intermediate: Mi So La Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale, extended range
Intervals: intermediate: So/Mi (M6), Mi8\Do\La\So\Mi (x3) descending (vi7) arpeggio (Em7), Mi/So/La/Do (x3) ascending (vi7) arpeggio (Em7), Mi\Do (M3), Do/Mi/So8 ascending tonic (I) arpeggio (G), So8\Mi/So8 (m3), So\Do (P5)
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, eighth; pickup beat, repetition of the vi7 arpeggio (Em7) gives the feeling of a minor tonality and a tonal center of Mi the third of I and the fifth of vi, moving in and out of major and minor tonalities
Key Words: USA history, cowboy vocabulary: ere (before), chuck wagon, flapjack (pancake), herd,cinches, reins, bronco, steers, chaparral, outfit, railroad coral, punchers, night riders, cook; breaking of day, hillside, vale, crowding, trail, shake, plains, roust (start moving), afternoon, shadows, lean, sticks, marshy, ravine, scatter, farther, vision, true, longest, evening, mountains, climbed, creeks, drooping, night, droop, sight

**“The Railroad Corral”**

	1.	We’re up in the morning ere breaking of day, The chuck wagon’s busy, the flapjack’s in play. The herd is a stir over hillside and vale, With the night riders crowding them in the trail.
	2.	Come take up your cinches, come shake out your reins, Come wake your old bronco and break for the plains; Come roust out your steers from the long chaparral, For the outfit is off to the railroad coral.
	3.	The afternoon shadows are startin’ to lean When the chuck wagon sticks in the marshy ravine; The herds scatter farther than vision can look, You can bet all true punchers will help out the cook.
	4.	The longest of days must reach evening at last, The mountains all climbed and the creeks all are past; The herd is a-drooping and fast falls the night. Let them droop if they will, for the railroads in sight!

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Rally Round the Flag

Advanced syncopation, ascending tonic arpeggios,
and an extended range.

Description

Grade: Fifth
Origin: USA – George Frederick Root (1825-1895) 1862
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AB – verse/chorus
Rhythm: advanced: | ri ti/ ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta | ta/a |
| ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
| ta (ti) ti | ti ta ti | syncopation
Pitches: advanced: Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – extended range
Intervals: intermediate: Do\La/Do (m3), Mi/So/Do ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), Mi/So/Do/Mi8 ascending tonic arpeggio (I, F), Do/So (P5), So\Mi (m3), So8\Mi8\Do descending tonic arpeggio (I, F)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, tonic arpeggios, syncopation, repeated melodic rhythm patterns, extended range, verse/chorus
Key Words: USA history: civil war, patriotic song of the Union (North); holiday song: Fourth of July, Independence Day; rally, shouting, battle cry, freedom, hillside, plain, traitor, springing, gone before, brothers, vacant ranks, million, loyal, brave, poor, slave, rebel, crew, marching, glorious, fight, host, fearless, Uncle Sam, amid, fray, comrades, rushing, Liberty, might; contractions: we’re (we are), we’ll (we will); abbreviations: altho’ (although) , vict’ry (victory)
Recorder: advanced: introducing the E, F, G, and A above high C, syncopation and tonic arpeggios

“Rally Round the Flag”
also known as
“Battle Cry of Freedom”

Rallying Song
	1.	Oh, we’ll rally round the flag boys, rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom; We will rally from the hillside, gather from the plain, Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
		Chorus:
		The Union forever, Hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitor, and up with the star; While we rally round the flag, boys, ally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
	2.	We are springing to the call of our brothers gone before, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And we’ll fill the vacant ranks with a million freemen more, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
		Chorus
	3.	We will welcome to our numbers the loyal, true and brave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom And altho’ they may be poor not a man shall be a slave, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
		Chorus
	4.	So we’re springing to the call from the East and from the West, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And we’ll hurl the Rebel crew from the land we love the best, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
		Chorus

Battle Song
	1.	We are marching to the field, boys, we’re going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we bear the glorious stars for the Union and the right, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
		Chorus:
		The Union forever! Hurrah boys hurrah! Down with the traitor, up with the star, For we’re marching to the field, boys, going to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom!
	2.	We will meet the Rebel host, boys, with fearless heart and true, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, And we’ll show what Uncle Sam has for loyal men to do, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
		Chorus
	3.	If we fall amid the fray, boys, we’ll face them to the last, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And our comrades brave shall hear us as they go rushing past, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
		Chorus
	4.	Yes, for Liberty and Union we’re springing to the fight, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom. And the vict’ry shall be ours for we’re rising in our might, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom.
		Chorus

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Push the Business On

Syncopation in 6/8 time: mastering ta ti ta ti, feeling
duple meter in triple meter time, and experiencing
what is also a triplet in dotted quarter time.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: England – Game Song
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABCB
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation
(x10) feeling of double meter (dotted quarter) in 6/8 time, | ti ti ti ta ti | syncopation (feeling of triplets in 6/8), | ta/a (ti) ti | syncopation
Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginners: So/Do\So (P4), Mi\Do/Mi (M3), Fa\Re (m3)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, feeling duple meter in triple meter time (2 groups of 3 eighths),rhythmic phrases stepping up the staff/scale
Key Words: world geography: England; game song, circle song, running a business, horse, grab, rig, world, dance a jig, whatever

**“Push the Business On”**
We’ll hire a horse and grab a rig; And all the world will dance a jig; And we will do whatever we can, To push the business on. To push the business on. To push the business on. And we will do whatever we can, To push the business on.

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