Jenny Jones -

Perfect after reading Pitch Warm-up Finding Do-Mi-So!

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: USA, Alabama – Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABaC (repeated)
Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ta ti | syncopation,
| ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta/ | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi So
Intervals: advanced: So/Do, Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio, Re\Ti, Ti\So, Re\So, So/Mi
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, tied note, vocal slur, singing alone and with others, repeat sign, walking/dancing with steady beat, 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be a triplet if the beat is represented by a dotted quarter
Key Words: USA geography: Alabama; greeting song, game song, washing, starching, ironing, sweeping, dead

**“Jenny Jones”**

		1.	We’ve come to see Miss Jenny Jones, Miss Jenny Jones, Miss Jenny Jones. We’ve come to see Miss Jenny Jones, And how is she today?Miss Jenny Jones is a-washing, A-washing, a-washing. Miss Jenny is a-washing, You can’t see her today.
			Chorus
			We’re right glad/sorry to hear it, To hear it, to hear it. We’re right glad/sorry to hear it, And how are you today?
		2.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-starching, etc.
			Chorus
		3.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-ironing, etc.
			Chorus
		4.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-sweeping, etc.
			Chorus
		5.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-sick in bed, etc.
			Chorus
		6.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-dying, etc.
			Chorus
		7.	We’ve come to see, etc. Miss Jenny is a-dead, etc.
			Chorus

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