Excellent for beginning grade level expectations.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Traditional
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: staves: ABABaBaB – phrases: AAaa – song: Aa
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta ti ti | ta ta ta/a | - Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
- Intervals: intermediate: Re/So, Do/Mi, Fa\Re, So\Mi Mi/Do8
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; verse/refrain, stepping down the staff Do-Re, each phrase begins on the third (Mi), or dominate (So), always ending with the repeated tonic (Do, Do, Do)
- Key Words: USA history, boating rules, boating signals, nautical words, boat captain, ship captain, wishing song, starboard (right), port, left, sail the ocean blue, treasures, river barge, pirates, brave, bold; abbreviation: flick’ring (flickering), what will you be when you grow up?
- Recorder: intermediate: Excellent for students who have completed the Beginning Recorder Songs
1. | Out of my window looking in the night, I can see the barges’ flick’ring light. Silently flows the river to the sea, And the barges, too, go silently. |
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Barges, I would like to go with you; I would like to sail the ocean blue. Barges, have you treasures in you hold? Do you fight with pirates brave and bold? |
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Out of my window looking in the night, I can see the barges’ flick’ring light. Starboard shines green and port is glowing red, You can see them flick’ring far ahead. |
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Barges, I would like to go with you; I would like to sail the ocean blue. Barges, have you treasures in you hold? Do you fight with pirates brave and bold? |
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