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Repeated rest on the first beat, natural 7th (Te), and a sharped second (Ri) offer several new insights to music’s language.
Description
- Grade: Third
- Origin: USA – Traditional Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/2 – (counted in 4/4)
- Form: through composed
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta/a ta/a | ta/a/a/a |
| (ta) ti ti ti ti ti ti | (ta) ta ta ta | (ta) ta ti ti ta |
| (ta/a) (ta) ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta/a | ta ti ti ta/a |
| ta ta/a ta | ta ta ta ta | - Pitches: intermediate: So La Te Ti Do Re Ri Mi – natural 7th (Te), sharped second (Ri)
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do\So, So/Ti, Ti\So, Mi\Ri/Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eighth; rests: half, quarter; pickup beat, repeat signs, multiple fermatas, first and second endings, natural, sharp, natural 7th (Te), sharped second (Ri)
- Key Words: camp song, playground song, game song, improvisational song, bay, watermelons, grow, home, mother, goose, moose, whale, polka-dot tail, fly, wearing, tie, bear, combing, hair, llamas, eating, pajamas, rhyme, silly; contraction: couldn’t (could not) song’s (song has)
| 1. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. Did you ever see a goose kissing a moose? Down by the bay.” |
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Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “Did you ever see a whale with a polka-dot tail? Down by the bay.” |
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| 3. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “Did you ever see a fly wearing a tie? Down by the bay.” |
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| 4. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “Did you ever see a bear combing his hair? Down by the bay.” |
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| 5. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “Did you ever see llamas eating their pajamas? Down by the bay.” |
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| 6. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “Did you ever have a time when you couldn’t make a rhyme? Down by the bay.” |
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| 7. | Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, I dare not go, For if I do, my mother will say. “This silly song’s gone on too long? Down by the bay.” |
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