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Common time, beginning syncopation, and tonic arpeggios.
Description
- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Traditional Cowboy Folk Song
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4 – common time (C)
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ti ta/ (ta) ti | syncopation, | ta/a (ta) ti ti | syncopation - Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: intermediate: So/Do (P4), Do\So (P4), So/Do/Mi – Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggios (I G), Re/So (P4), Fa\La (m6), So/Ti (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, common time (4/4), syncopation, all verse syllables match original rhythm
- Key Words: world geography: Red River Valley: Manitoba, Canada; USA geography: North Dakota, Minnesota; USA/Canada history, cowboy love song, cowboy pining song, brightened, a while, hasten, bid me adieu (French), leaving, lonely, fond, breaking, grief, causing, ocean, exchanged, mid; contractions: won’t (will not) , you’re (you are)
- Recorder: intermediate: two ascending tonic arpeggios, syncopation
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From the valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our path for a while. |
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Come and sit by my side if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu But remember the Red River Valley And the cowboy who loved you so true. |
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| 3. | Won’t you think of the valley you’re leaving Oh how lonely, how sad it will be? Oh think of the fond heart you are breaking And the grief you are causing to me. |
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| 4. | As you go to your home by the ocean May you never forget those sweet hours That we spent in the Red River Valley And the love we exchanged mid the flowers |
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