Mastering the 6/8 rhythm ta ti ta ti, practicing the intervals La/Do and Do\La, with an ascending tonic arpeggio.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: England – Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AA, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ta ti | ta/a ti | syncopation
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\La, So/Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; tied notes, pickup beat, arpeggio, syncopation
- Key Words: world geography, Derby, England, sheep herding, sheep farming, wool, finest, fed, hay, drug (verb), believe, hauled, farmer’s market, weighed, ten thousand, pounds, parts of a ram (sheep): wool, horns; reached, moon, butcher, February, June; contraction: it’s (it is), don’t (do not), you’ll (you will); possessives: summer’s, ram’s
1. | As I went down to Derby town, All on a summer’s day, It’s there I saw the finest ram, That’s ever fed on hay. |
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And if you don’t believe me, And think I tell a lie, Just you go down to Derby, And you’ll see the same as I. |
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The wool upon the ram’s back It drug to the ground, I hauled it to the market, And it weighed ten thousand pounds. |
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3. | The horns upon this ram’s head They reached to the moon, The butcher went up on February, And never got back till June. |
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