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"All 'Round the Brickyard" Lyrics, Text Format

Contrasting syncopation on the second beat, with straight eights.

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – African American Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABCD
  • Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri | syncopation,
    | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
  • Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La
  • Intervals: intermediate: So\Do, Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Mi\Do\La\So descending minor 6th w/7th arpeggio
    (Dm 7), So/Do
  • Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; D minor seventh, Dm 7 arpeggio, moving to a syncopated second beat, contrasting syncopation with straight eights
  • Key Words: play song, party song, African American playground song, brickyard, remember, step it, shake it, clap it; abbreviations: ’round (a round), goin’ (going)

 

 


“All ‘Round the Brickyard”
 
1. All ’round the brickyard,
remember me.
I’m goin’ to step it, step it, step it,
and a remember me.
2.
All ’round the brickyard,
remember me.
I’m goin’ to shake it, shake it, shake it,
and a remember me.
3. All ’round the brickyard,
remember me.
I’m goin’ to clap it, clap it, clap it,
and a remember me.
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