My Farm -

Complex rhythms with phrases composed up a third and down a second.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Argentina Folk Song
Key: G Major
Time: 4/4
Form: rhythm: AABBCC – pitches: ABCDEF
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ta/ ti ta (ta) | ta/ ti ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta (ta) |
| ti ti ri ti ti ti ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta (ti) ti |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: intermediate: Do\So, So/Do, Mi\Do, Do/Mi, Mi/So, So/Mi, Fa\Re, Re/Fa
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; phrases raised by a third and lowered by a second, note heads as beats
Key Words: spanish, farm animals, animal science, animal sounds, winding, stream, barnyard, grass, green, pollito (chicken – peep), perrito (dog – bow wow), gatito (cat – meow), burrito (donkey – hee haw), patito (duck – quack), chanchito (pig – oink), gallito (rooster – cock-a-doodle-do)

**“My Farm”**

		1.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El pollito (the chicken) goes like this: peep, peep, El pollito goes like this: peep, peep.

			Refrain
			O va, camarada, va, camarada, Va, O va, O va: O va, camarada, va, camarada, Va, O va, O va:

		2.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El perrito (the dog) goes like this: bow wow, El perrito goes like this: bow wow.

			Refrain

		3.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El gatito (the cat) goes like this: meow, meow, El gatito goes like this: meow, meow.

			Refrain

		4.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El burrito (the donkey) goes like this: hee haw, El burrito goes like this: hee haw.

			Refrain

		5.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El patito (the duck) goes like this: quack, quack, El patito goes like this: quack, quack.

			Refrain

		6.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El chanchito (the pig) goes like this: oink, oink, El chanchito goes like this: oink, oink.

			Refrain

		7.	I have a little farm beside a winding stream, I have a little barnyard where the grass is green. El gallito (the rooster) goes like this: cock-a-doodle-do, El gallito goes like this: cock-a-doodle-do.

			Refrain

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