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Intermediate straight syncopation using sixteenth notes
and descending minor 7th, Fa\So.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Cowboy Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: staves: ABAbCD – song: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ri ti ti | ti ti ta |
| ti ri ti ta | syncopation, | ti ri ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ri ti ri | ti ti ti ri ti | syncopation - Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do/Mi\Do, Fa\So, Do\So, So/Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio, Re\Ti, Do/La, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; repeat signs, syncopation, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA cowboy song, western dance song, campfire song, handsome, shy, fiddle, bow; contractions: don’t (do not), wasn’t (was not), where’d, (where did)
| 1. | Do you remember, don’t you know? Don’t you remember Cotton-Eyed Joe? Cotten-Eyed Joe, he was some guy! He was handsome and he wasn’t shy. |
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| Hold my fiddle and hold my bow, Watch me dance like Cotton-Eyed Joe. |
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Where did you come from, where’d you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe? Cotten-Eyed Joe, he came to town, Played the fiddle making quite a sound! |
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| Chorus: | |||||
| Hold my fiddle and hold my bow, Watch me dance like Cotton-Eyed Joe. |
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