The Old Man’s Goat

Also known as: “Bill Grogan’s Goat”

Concentrating on the dominant, submediant, and leading tone.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: Traditional*
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCAABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | – walking quarter notes
Pitches: intermediate: Mi So La Ti Do Re
Intervals: advanced: La\Mi, Mi/So, Do\La, So/Do, La/Do, Ti\So
Musical Elements: note: quarter note; echo song, singing in parts
Key Words: vocabulary builder, goat, kid (homonym), red, shirts, railroad, railroad track, whistle, train, shrieks, coughed, green, fright, indeed, note, frisk, right (homonym), pain, flagged

* Also known as Bill Grogan’s Goat

1.There was a man (There was a man)
Now please take note (Now please take note)
There was a man (There was a man)
Who had a goat. (Who had a goat.)

2.

He loved that goat (He loved that goat)
Indeed he did (Indeed he did)
He loved that goat (He loved that goat)
Just like a kid. (Just like a kid.)

3.

One day that goat (One day that goat)
Felt frisk and fine (Felt frisk and fine)
Ate three red shirts (Ate three red shirts)
Right off the line. (Right off the line.)

4.The man, he grabbed (The man, he grabbed)
Him by the back (Him by the back)
And tied him to (And tied him to)
A railroad track .(A railroad track)

5.Now, when that train (Now, when that train)
Hove into sight (Hove into sight)
That goat grew pale (That goat grew pale)
And green with fright. (And green with fright.)

6.He heaved a sigh (He heaved a sigh)
As if in pain (As if in pain)
Coughed up those shirts (Coughed up those shirts)
And flagged the train! (And flagged the train!)

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Old MacDonald

Mastering the descending and ascending intervals
Do\So and So/Do, perfect fourth (P4).

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Traditional English Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AABA
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a |
| ta/a (ta) ta | ta/a (ta) ti ti | ta ta ta ti ti |
| ti ti ta ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta/a/a/a |
Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
Intervals: beginners: Do\So, So/Mi, So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter
Key Words: farming, farmer, farm animals and sounds: chickens, chick, dog, bow wow, cat, meow, sheep, baa baa, cow, moo moo, donkey, hee haw, duck, quack quack, memory song

**“Old MacDonald”**

		1.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had some chicks, E-I-E-I-O! With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		2.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-O! With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		3.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had a cat, E-I-E-I-O! With a meow here, and a meow there, Here a meow, there a meow, ev’rywhere a meow meow, With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		4.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had some sheep, E-I-E-I-O! With a baa baa here, and a baa baa there, Here a baa, there a baa, ev’rywhere a baa baa, With a meow here, and a meow there, Here a meow, there a meow, ev’rywhere a meow meow, With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		5.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O! With a moo moo here, and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, ev’rywhere a moo moo, With a baa baa here, and a baa baa there, Here a baa, there a baa, ev’rywhere a baa baa, With a meow here, and a meow there, Here a meow, there a meow, ev’rywhere a meow meow, With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		6.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had a donkey, E-I-E-I-O! With a hee haw here, and a hee haw there, Here a hee, there a haw, ev’rywhere a hee haw, With a moo moo here, and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, ev’rywhere a moo moo, With a baa baa here, and a baa baa there, Here a baa, there a baa, ev’rywhere a baa baa, With a meow here, and a meow there, Here a meow, there a meow, ev’rywhere a meow meow, With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

		7.	Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O! And on his farm he had a duck, E-I-E-I-O! With a quack quack here, and a quack quack there, Here a quack, there a quack, ev’rywhere a quack quack, With a hee haw here, and a hee haw there, Here a hee, there a haw, ev’rywhere a hee haw, With a moo moo here, and a moo moo there, Here a moo, there a moo, ev’rywhere a moo moo, With a baa baa here, and a baa baa there, Here a baa, there a baa, ev’rywhere a baa baa, With a meow here, and a meow there, Here a meow, there a meow, ev’rywhere a meow meow, With a bow wow here, and a bow wow there, Here a bow, there a wow, ev’rywhere a bow wow, With a chick chick here, and a chick chick there, Here a chick, there a chick, ev’rywhere a chick chick, Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!

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Old King Cole

Challenging, as rhythms change for verse syllables
and practicing the perfect fourth (P4) Do\So/Do.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Nursery Rhyme
Key: F Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta ta ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ti ti ta ta | ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: beginners: Do\So/Do
Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; steps up and down the staff from Do to Fa, tied notes (= + in math)
Key Words: world geography: England; King, soul, merry, pipe, bowl, fiddlers, compare, rare, fine, called, compare, none; contraction: there’s (there is)

**“Old King Cole”**
Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl And he called for his fiddlers three. Every fiddler he had a fiddle, And a very fine fiddle had he; Oh there’s none so rare, as can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three

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Old John Braddleum

Introducing and practicing the descending
perfect fifth So\Do (P5).

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Traditional
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti ta | syncopation,
| ta ta ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: beginners: So\Mi, Mi/So, So\Do (P5)
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, adding the descending perfect fifth, So\Do (P5), to the beginning Orff interval So\Mi
Key Words: world geography: Engalnd; counting from one to twelve, country folk, door, gate, dead, live, posts, sticks, eat, dine, pencils, pens, rhyming words for numbers one through eleven: one/begun, two/you, three/me, four/door, five/live, six/sticks, seven/eleven, eight/gate, nine/dine, eleven/seven

**“Old John Braddleum”**

	1.	Number One, number one Now my song has just begun. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	2.	Number two, number two They all like me and some like you. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	3.	Number three, number three Some like you but they all like me. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	4.	Number four, number four Some like a gate but I like a door. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	5.	Number five, number five Some like ’em dead but I like ’em live. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	6.	Number six, number six Some like posts but I like sticks. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	7.	Number seven, number seven Is just the same as number eleven. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	8.	Number eight, number eight I like a door but some like a gate. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	9.	Number nine, number nine Some like to eat but I like to dine. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	10.	Number ten, number ten Some like a pencils but I like a pens. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	11.	Number eleven, number eleven Is just the same as number seven. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

	12.	Number twelve, number twelve If you want any more you must sing it yourself. Rum tum taddle-um, old John Braddle-um, Oh, what country folk we be.

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Old Joe Clark

Syncopation on the fourth quarter of the first and second beats
(uh of 1, uh of 2), dominant (So) is the tonal center,
experiencing the intervals So\Re (P4) and So/Re8 (P5).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Folk Song
Key: B flat Major – centered around the fifth (So) of the major scale
Time: 2/4
Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ta | syncopation,
| ti ti ta | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta (ta) |
Pitches: intermediate: Re So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
Intervals: intermediate: So/Re8 (P5), Ti\So (M3), So\Re/So (P4), So/Ti (M3)
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; rest: quarter, D.C. al Fine, Fine, two double barlines
Key Words: USA history, sixteen stories high, chicken pie, slept, feather bed, violin, fiddled, dance, play, southern mountain ballad

**“Old Joe Clark”**

			Refrain
			‘Round and ’round, Old Joe Clark, ‘Round and ’round I say; ‘Round and ’round, Old Joe Clark, I haven’t long to stay.
		1.	Old Joe Clark, he had a house, Sixteen stories high. Ev’ry story in that house Was full of chicken pie.
			Refrain
		2.	I went down to Joe Clark’s house, Never been before. He slept on the feather bed And I slept on the floor.
			Refrain
		3.	Joe Clark had a violin, He fiddled all the day. Anybody start to dance And Joe would start to play.
			Refrain

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The Old Gray Cat

Mastering the ascending perfect fourth (P4) So/Do,
counting eighth notes, and, feeling duple meter in 6/8.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Traditional
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti ta | syncopation,
| ta/ ta/ |
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Mi
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do\So, So/Ti
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation in 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter in 6/8
Key Words: cat, mice, sleeping, creeping, nibbling, scamper, body movements, moving quietly, moving silently, moving fast, moving slow, eating small amounts, moving in slow motion

**“The Old Gray Cat”**

	1.	The old gray cat is sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. The old gray cat is sleeping in the house.

	2.	The little mice are creeping, creeping, creeping. The little mice are creeping through the house.

	3.	The little mice are nibbling, nibbling, nibbling. The little mice are nibbling in the house.

	4.	The little mice are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. The little mice are sleeping in the house.

	5.	The old gray cat comes creeping, creeping, creeping. The old gray cat comes creeping through the house.

	6.	The little mice all scamper, scamper, scamper. The little mice all scamper thorough the house.

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Old Folks at Home

Intermediate syncopation on the second half of the second and third beats (& of 2, & of 3), and the fourth quarter of the second and fourth beats (uh of 2, uh of 4), a tonic octave skip, and arpeggios built on the tonic (I), the subdominant (IV), and an interval of a major 7th, Do/Ti.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – Stephen Foster (1826-1864), circa. 1851
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: staves: AaBa – song: AAB, verse/chorus
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ti ti ti ti | ta ta ti ta/ |
syncopation, | ta/a ta ta | ta/a/a (ta) |
| ta ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ti/ ri | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do Re
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi, Do/Do8 ascending tonic octave skip, Do8\La/Do8 (m3), Do8\So\Mi\Dodescending tonic (I) arpeggio, Do/Ti (M7), Re\So (P5), So/Do (P4), Do\La\Fa descending subdominant (IV) arpeggio (F Major), Fa/La (M3)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter, repeat sign, verse/chorus, syncopation, tonic octave skip, tonic and sub-dominate arpeggios, major seventh interval Do/Ti, phrase markings for breath control.
Key Words: USA history, minstrel song, USA geography: Florida, state song of Florida, Christy Minstrels, Stephen Foster, pining for home, longing for home, life in the Southern United States, far far away, creation, sadly, roam, longing, plantation, sad and weary, Lordy, farm. wandered, squandered, songs, sung, playing, brother, mother, live and die, among, hut, bushes, rushes, rove, bee’s a humming, comb, banjo; contractions: there’s (there is), ev’rywhere (everywhere); abbreviations: ’round (around), mem’ry (memory), strummin’ (strumming) possessive: folk’s

“Old Folks at Home”
also known as:
“Swanee River”
“Suwannee River”

		1.	Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away, There’s where my heart is turning ever, There’s were the old folk’s stay. All up and down the whole creation, Sadly I roam, Still longing for the old plantation, And for the old folks at home.
			Chorus
			All the world is sad and dreary, Ev’rywhere I roam. Oh, Lordy how my heart grows weary Far from the old folks at home.
		2.	All ’round the little farm I wandered, When I was young, Then happy days I squandered, Many the songs I sung. When I was playing with my brother, Happy was I. Oh! take me to my kind old mother, There let me live and die.
			Chorus
		3.	One little hut among the bushes, One that I love, Still sadly to my mem’ry rushes, No matter where I rove. When will I see the bee’s a-humming, All ’round the comb? When will I hear the banjo strummin’ Down in my good old home.
			Chorus

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The Old Chisholm Trail

Practicing two perfect fourths: Do/Fa, So\Re,
the perfect fifth: Do/So, and the subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
Key: D Major
Time: 4/4
Form: AB – verse/refrain
Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a/a ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do/So, So\Re, Fa\Re, Do/Fa/La ascending subdominant arpeggio (IV, G)
Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, verse/refrain, subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La
Key Words: USA geography: Texas; USA history: Chisholm Trail, cowboy song, trail song, round-up, cowboy life, troubles, ten dollar horse, October, herd, morning, daylight, driving cattle, moon shine, bright, prairie, bacon, beans, cow tail; abbreviations: ridin’ (riding), punchin’ (punching), ol’ (old), drivin’ (driving); contraction: I’m (I am), it’s (it is), I’d (I would); hyphenated: twenty-third

**“The Old Chisholm Trail”**

	1.	Oh, come along, boys, and listen to my tale, I’ll tell you of my troubles on the Old Chisholm Trail.
		Refrain:
		Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea, yippy yea, Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea.
	2.	On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle, I was ridin’ and a punchin’ Texas cattle.
		Refrain
	3.	We left ol’ Texas October twenty-third Drivin’ up the trail with the U-2 herd.
		Refrain
	4.	I’m up in the morning before daylight, And before I sleep the moon shine bright.
		Refrain
	5.	It’s bacon and beans most every day, I’d just as soon be eating prairie hay.
		Refrain
	6.	I woke up one morning on the Chisholm trail, With a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail.
		Refrain

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The Old Ark

Syncopation on the second half of the first beat (& of 1) occurs 8 times, limited range, and practicing the intervals of the tonic triad, save one; Do/La (M6).

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: through composed
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta ti | syncopation (x8),
| ta/a | ti ti ti ti | ta ta | ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ti ri ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta |
Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi, Mi\Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So\Mi, Do/La
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter; syncopation, two double barlines, verse/refrain, changing rhythms to match verse syllables; tempo: moderately
Key Words: USA history, African American History, Bible stories, story of the Ark, Noah’s Ark, Noah, reel, rock, mountain top, rainbow sign, children, along, God, sacred

**“The Old Ark”**

		1.	Old Ark she reel, Old Ark she rock; Old Ark a sitting on the mountain top.
			Refrain:
			Old Ark a-moving, moving, Children won’t you come along? Old Ark a-moving, I thank God! Old Ark she reel, Old Ark she rock; Old Ark a sitting on the mountain top.
		2.	God called Noah from the mountain top. Command old Noah to build his ark.
			Refrain
		3.	God told Noah by the rainbow sign, No more water but fire next time.
			Refrain

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Old Abram Brown

Introducing the minor tonality, three minor thirds,
and ascending submediant octave skip La/La.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA – Nursery Rhyme*
Key: D minor – pitched in F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: ABCD
Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ti ti |
Pitches: advanced: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La – extended range
Intervals: advanced: La/Do, La/La ascending submediant octave skip, Mi/So, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, eighth; pickup beat, minor tonality, submediant octave skip
Key Words: world geography: England; USA; death, gray, coat, button, before/after

* From English theatre origins (call to remove the deceased character from the stage)

**“Old Abram Brown”**
Old Abram Brown is dead and gone, We’ll never see him more, He used to wear an old gray coat, All buttoned down before.

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