Sing Ivy -

Introducing the dotted quarter, the descending dominate
octave skip (So\So), and farming vocabulary from England.

Description

Grade: Second
Origin: England – Traditional
Key: F Major
Time: 6/8
Form: ABAC
Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
| ti ti ti ta ti | ta ti ti ti | ta/ ta ti |
Pitches: intermediate: So Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
Intervals: intermediate: So/Do, Do/Mi, Do/So, So\Mi, So\So descending dominate octave skip
Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, octave skip
Key Words: world geography, earth science, England farming, holly, whistle, ivy, ploughed, morning, rams horn, sowed, peppercorn, bramble brush, reaped, penknife, barn, threshed, goose quill, mill, miller; contraction: he’d (he would)

**“Sing Ivy”**

	1.	My father he left me three acres of land, Sing ivy, sing ivy! My father he left me three acres of land, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
	2.	I ploughed it one morning with a rams horn, Sing ivy, sing ivy! And sowed it all over with one peppercorn, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
	3.	I harrowed it next with a bramble bush, Sing ivy, sing ivy! And reaped it all with my little penknife, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
	4.	The mice for me, carried it into the barn, Sing ivy, sing ivy! And there I threshed it with a goose quill, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.
	5.	The cat she carried it unto the mill, Sing ivy, sing ivy! And the miller he said that he’d work with a will, Sing holly, go whistle and ivy.

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