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Mastering the tonic arpeggio with advanced rhythms.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: Canada – Street Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 6/8
- Form: AaBb (w/coda)
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ta ti | ta ti ta/ |
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta/ (ta) ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ta ti | ta (ti) ta ti | ta/ ta ti | - Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Do\So, Mi\So, Re\So only interval not in the tonic arpeggio
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, staves three and four composed of the tonic arpeggio in second position (5-1-3) (So-Do-Mi)
- Key Words: counting song, rhyming words for counting one to ten: bun, shoe, tree, door, jive, sticks, eleven, skate, line, again, math, crossing the sea, jumped, aboard, sailor-man, ship, standing at attention, soldier; possessive: sailor-man’s
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When I was one I ate a bun, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me, |
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| Refrain: |
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| “Going over, going under, Standing at attention like a soldier, With a one, two, and three.” |
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When I was two, I tied my shoe, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 3. | When I was three, I climbed a tree, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 4. | When I was four, I shut the door, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 5. | When I was five, I danced the jive, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 6. | When I was six, I picked up sticks, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 7. | When I was seven, I counted to eleven, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 8. | When I was eight, I learned to skate, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 9. | When I was nine, I towed the line, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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| 10. | When I was ten, I started again, Going over the sea. I jumped aboard a sailor-man’s ship, And the sailor-man said to me,Refrain |
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