Introducing the dotted quarter note.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA – American Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ta/ ti | ti ti ti ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: Fa\Re, Re/So, Mi\Do, Do/Fa, Ti\So
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; verse/refrain, vocal slur
- Key Words: Easter, farming, gardening, life of a rabbit, rabbit food, hare, cotton, through, tear, apples, pear, nibbling, garden, prickly pear, briar, haystack, bear, picking; hyphenated: a-shooting
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Old Molly Hare, What you doing there? |
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1. | Running through the cotton Just as fast as I can tear. |
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Eating up the apples And a looking for a pear |
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Nibbling in the garden, |
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4. | Picking out a briar, Sitting on a prickly pear. |
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5. | Sitting on a haystack, And a-shooting at a bear. |
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