The Pawpaw Patch -

Introducing triplets and multiple sixteenth variations.

Description

Grade: First
Origin: Kentucky, USA – Singing Game
Key: F Major
Time: 2/4
Form: AaAB
Rhythm: advanced: | ti-ti-ti ti ti | ti ti ri ti ti |
| ti ri ti ri ti ti | ti ti ti ti | ti ti ti ri ti ri | ti ti ta |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La
Intervals: advanced: Do/Mi, Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi\Do (tonic arpeggio), Re\Ti, Ti/Re, Re\Ti\So (descending dominate arpeggio), So/Do, Do/So – phrase transitions: tonic/dominate/tonic/dominate7/tonic (I-V-I-V7-I)
Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, eighth triplet, sixteenth; triple meter in duple time, tonic/dominate chord transitions, the sixth (La) represents the 7th of V7 (last staff)
Key Words: pawpaw (fruit from southern United States), yonder (being at a distance within view or at a place or in a direction known or indicated), patch, basket; contractions: let’s (let us), put’n’em (putting them); abbreviations: pickin’ (picking)
Keyboard: advanced: left hand: add tonic (I) and dominate (V) root or chord – beginning of each measure or as a steady beat; right hand: tonic (I) and dominate (V) arpeggios

**“The Pawpaw Patch”**

		1.	Where, oh where is dear little Mary? Where, oh where is dear little Mary? Where, oh where is dear little Mary? Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.

		2.	Come on boys, and let’s go find her, Come on boys, and let’s go find her, Come on boys, and let’s go find her, Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.

		3.	Pickin’ up pawpaws put’n’em in the basket, Pickin’ up pawpaws put’n’em in the basket, Pickin’ up pawpaws put’n’em in the basket, Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.

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