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"Shoo, Fly" Lyrics, Text Format


Practicing syncopation in four rhythm patterns
with advanced intervals.

 

Description

  • Grade: Second
  • Origin: USA – Folk Song
  • Key: F Major
  • Time: 2/4
  • Form: ABA
  • Rhythm: advanced: | ti ta ti | syncopation,
    | ti/ ri ta | syncopation, | ti/ ri ti ti | syncopation,
    | ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti | ti ti ri ti ti | syncopation
  • Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
  • Intervals: advanced: Mi\Do, Fa\Re, Re\Ti, Re/So, So/Mi, Mi\So, So/Re, Re/So, So\Mi\Do descending tonic arpeggio
  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; fermata, syncopation
  • Key Words: nonsense song, shoo, fly, morning, star, bother, belong, somebody; contraction: don’t (do not)

“Shoo, Fly” 

Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel,
I feel like a morning star.
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
Shoo, fly, don’t bother me,
For I belong to somebody.
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