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A minor tonality where the 6th (La) is the tonal center
in its relative Major.
Description
- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA – Kentucky Folk Song
- Key: A minor – pitched for C Major
And: D minor – pitched for F Major - Time: 6/8
- Form: A (through composed)
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta/ |
| ta/ ta ti | - Pitches: beginners: La Do Re Mi
- Intervals: intermediate: La/Do, Do\La, Re\La, La/Mi
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, minor tonality
- Key Words: Halloween, spooky songs, All Hallows Eve, All Saints Eve, scary songs, skin, bones, graveyard, broom; contractions: she’d (she would), hyphenated/abbreviation: a-lyin’ (a lying)
- Keyboard: intermediate: five finger exercise, left, right, and two hands together
| 1. | There was an old woman all skin and bones, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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She lived down by the old graveyard, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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| 3. | One night she thought she’d take a walk, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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| 4. | She walked down by the old graveyard, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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| 5. | She saw the bones a-layin’ around, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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| 6. | She went to the closet to get a broom, Oo-oo-oo-ooh! |
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| 7. | She opened the door and BOO!! | ||
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