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Practicing the major sixth Do/La and the minor third Do\La.
Description
- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: USA – African American Plantation Song
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ta | ti ti ta ta/a |
| ta ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ta/a | - Pitches: intermediate: Do Re Mi So La Do – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/La, Do\La, La\Mi, La\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; sixteenth divisions, repeat sign, melodic rhythm patterns, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA geography: Southern United States, African American history, baking bread, babies, doctor, bed, coffee, sick, children, dance, sing, kitchen, skillet, lid, dollars, jail, pigeon wing (dance), plantations; contractions: ain’t (is not), mama’s (mama is), gonna (going to); abbreviations: short’nin’ (shortening), lyin’ (lying), eatin’ (eating), ‘most (almost), makin’ (making)
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Three little babies lyin’ in bed, Two were sick and the other ‘most dead. Called for the doctor, the doctor said, “Feed those babies some short’nin’ bread. |
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| All the little babies love short’nin’, short’nin’, All the little babies love short’nin’ bread. All the little babies love short’nin’, short’nin’, All the little babies love short’nin’ bread. |
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Put on the skillet, slip on the lid, Mama’s gonna make a little short’nin’ bread. That ain’t all she’s gonna do, Mama’s gonna make a little coffee/coco too. |
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When those children, sick in bed, Heard that talk about short’nin’ bread. Popped up well to dance and sing, Skipped around and cut the pigeon wing. |
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Slip to the kitchen, slip up the lid, Filled my pockets full of short’nin’ bread; Stole the skillet, stole the lid, Stole the gal makin’ short’nin’ bread. |
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| 5. | Caught me with the skillet, caught me with the lid, Caught me with the gal makin’ short’nin’ bread; Paid six dollars for the skillet, six dollars for the lid, Spent six months in jail eatin’ short’nin’ bread. |
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