Syncopation occurring on the first quarter of the second beat and
a descending minor arpeggio built from the sixth, Dm (Mi\Do\La).
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Sea Chanty
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AB, verse/chorus
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | syncopation, | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation | ti ti ti ti ri | syncopation, | ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do\La descending vi (Dm) arpeggio, La/Re, Fa/La, La\Mi, So\Re/So, So\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, syncopation on the second half of the second beat (and of 2) and the first quarter of the second beat, verse/chorus
- Key Words: Americans, USA geography, Boston, New York, Buffalo, NY, New Bedford, sea song, sailors song, sea chanty, chanty, advertised, becoming a whaling sailor, whaling, running gear, whaling port, land-sharks, board, fit you out, clipper-ship, ship’s watch; contractions: you’re (you are), we’re (we are); ’tis (it is)
“Blow Ye Winds in the Morning”
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‘Tis advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo,
Five hundred brave Americans a-whaling for to go. |
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Singing, blow, ye winds in the morning,
And blow ye winds high-ho
clear away your running gear,
And blow, boys, blow. |
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They send you to New Bedford, that famous whaling port,
And give you to some land-sharks to board and fit you out. |
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They tell you of the clipper-ships-a-going in and out,
And say you’ll take five hundred whales before you’re six months out.
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It’s now we’re out to sea, my boys, the wind comes on to blow;
One half the watch is sick on deck, the other half below.
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