Poor Little Jesus -

Advanced beat divisions and syncopated rhythms, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, in a minor tonality.

Description

Grade: Fourth
Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
Key: F Minor (pitched in A flat Major)
Time: 2/4
Form: AB – Verse/Refrain
Rhythm: advanced: | ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation,
| ri ti/ ta | syncopation, | ta/ ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta_|_a/a ti ti | syncopation (_|_=tie),
| ti ri ta ti | syncopation, | ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/ ta_|_/ ri ti/ | syncopation
Pitches: intermediate: Mi La Do Re Mi
Intervals: intermediate: La/Do/Mi ascending minor arpeggio, Mi\Do, Mi\Do\La descending minor arpeggio, Mi\Do\La\Mi descending minor arpeggio, Mi/La, La/Mi8, Re\La
Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; syncopation, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, melodic rhythm patterns
Key Words: USA history: African American Spirituals, sacred, Jesus, Christmas, birth of Christ, manger, pity, shame, Lord, Mary, cradle, nailed, laid, cross, robber, risen, glory; contractions: he’s (he is), didn’t (did not), wasn’t (was not); abbreviations: ‘scended (ascended)
Recorder: intermediate: minor tonality, ascending and descending minor arpeggios, mastering: F, A, C

**“Poor Little Jesus”**

	1.	It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes. He was born on Christmas, yes, yes. And laid in a manger, yes, yes.
		Refrain:
		Wasn’t that a pity and a shame? Lord? Wasn’t that a pity and a shame?
	2.	It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes. Child of Mary, yes, yes. Didn’t have a cradle, yes, yes.
		Refrain
	3.	It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes. They nailed him to the cross, Lord, yes, yes. They hung him with a robber, yes, yes.
		Refrain
	4.	It was poor little Jesus, yes, yes. He’s risen from the darkness, yes, yes. He’s ‘scended into glory, yes, yes. No more a pity and a shame, Lord, Lord. No more pity and a shame.

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