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Three perfect fourths, syncopated rhythms with sixteenths, and an inverted tonic triad.
Description
- Grade: Third (3)
- Origin: American Folk Song
- Key: C Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ri ti/ | ti ti ta | ti ti ti ri ti ri | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: advanced: Do Re Mi Fa So Do Re Mi – extended range
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic triad, So\Re (P4), Fa\Do (P4), Do/Mi\Do (M3), So\Mi/So (m3), Mi/So/Do inverted tonic triad, Do8\So (P4)
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; rests: none; tonic triad, inverted tonic triad, three perfect fourths, syncopation
- Key Words: United States history, courting song, Valentine’s Day, love; contraction: can’t (cannot)
| Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody but I won’t tell who. |
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| Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. And I hope somebody loves me too. |
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| Love somebody, can’t tell who. Love somebody, can’t tell who Love somebody, can’t tell who Love somebody but I won’t tell who. |
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| Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. Love somebody, yes I do. And I hope somebody loves me too. |
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