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Introducing harmony using a two part refrain.
Description
- Grade: Third
- Origin: Canada – Dock-Workers Song
- Key: D Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AB
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ti ta | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti ri | ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ta | - Pitches: intermediate: melody: So Do Re Mi Fa So La Do; 2nd part: La Ti Do Re Mi Fa
- Intervals: advanced: melody: Fa\Re, Do/Mi, Re/So, So\Do, So\Mi, Do/La/Do8, Do8\So, Re/So; second part: Re\Ti, Do/Fa
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; syncopation, two part, singing in parts, reading two parts, two part harmony, verse/refrain
- Key Words: world geography, North America, Canada, Sea Chanty, dock loader, dock worker, Quebec, stowing, timber, deck, golden, crown, donkey, Horn of Africa, lion, unicorn, sailing round the world; contraction: there’s (there is), it’s (it is)
| 1. | Were you ever in Quebec, Stowing timber on the deck? Where there’s a king with a golden crown, Riding on a donkey. |
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| Hey, ho! Away we go! Donkey riding, donkey riding, Hey, ho!! Away we go, Riding on a donkey. |
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Were you ever off the Horn, Where it’s always fine and warm? Seen the lion and the unicorn, Riding on a donkey. |
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