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Advanced syncopation, advanced intervals, triplets, repeated
melodic rhythm patterns, and the raised/sharped tonic (Di)
makes this popular folk song fun and challenging.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – Folk Song, cir. 1894 Princeton University
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: by page: 1-A, 2-BC, 3-D; song: ABCD
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
| ta/a ta/a | ta/ ti ta ta | syncopation, | ta/a/a (ta) |
| ta/a ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ta | syncopation,
| ta ta ta/a | ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
| ti/ ri ti/ ri ti ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a/a/a |
| ti-ti-ti ta ta/a | triplets, | ta ta ti-ti-ti ta | triplets,
| ti ti ti ti ta ta | - Pitches: advanced: So La Ti Do Di Re Mi Fa So La – raised/sharped tonic (Di), extended range
- Intervals: advanced: Do\So/Do, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Fa\Do, Re\Di/Re, So/Fa, Mi\La, Do\La, Do/Mi, So/Do, La/Re, Re\Ti, Mi\Do\So descending tonic arpeggio, So/Do/Mi ascending tonic arpeggio, Fa/La8
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; repeated melodic rhythm patterns, advanced syncopation, vocal slurs, triplets
- Key Words: USA history, glee club song, Princeton University, work song, railroad, live-long, pass time away, whistle, blowing, rise up, morn, captain, shouting, blow your horn, kitchen, strumming, banjo; contractions: I’ve (I have), don’t (do not), someone’s (someone is); abbreviation: strummin’ (strumming)
| I’ve been working on the railroad, All the live-long day; I’ve been working on the railroad, Just to pass the time away. Don’t you hear the whistle blowing? Rise up so early in the morn. Don’t you hear the captain shouting: “Dinah, blow your horn!” |
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| Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah, won’t you blow your horn? Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah, won’t you blow, Dinah, won’t you blow your horn? |
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| Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah, Someone’s in the kitchen I know. Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah, Strumming on the old banjo, and singing, |
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| Fee, fi, fiddly-i-o, Fee, fi, fiddly-i-o, Fee, fi, fiddly-i-o, Strummin’ on the old banjo. |
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