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Master the descending Do\La and ascending La/Do with this vocabulary tour de force!
Description
- Grade: First
- Origin: Southern, USA – Appalachian Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AaBC
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti| ta ti ti ta ta |
| ta ta ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a | - Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Do\La, La/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pentatonic scale, vocal slur, verse, chorus
- Key Words: USA geography, Appalachian, swap, none-sense song, none-sense words: wing, wong, waddle, saddle, faddle, jackstraw (straw discarded after harvest); animals: rats, mice, horse, mare, mule, goat, sheep, cow, calf, hen, mouse, mole; farm animals, farming, wife, narrow, wheelbarrow, tote, trade, half, haystack, a-fair, caught, dog gone, bread, cheese, it’s (possessive), straight; contractions: wouldn’t (would not)
- Keyboard: advanced: challenging one hand exercise for upper grades, where Do is the third (3rd) finger in each hand
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When I was just a little boy I lived by myself, All the bread and cheese I had, I had it on the shelf, |
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| Wing wong waddle, To my jackstraw saddle, To my Johnny fair faddle, To my long ways home. |
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| 2. | The rats and the mice, they led me such a life, I had to go to London to get myself a wife.Chorus |
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The roads were long and the lanes were so narrow, Chorus |
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| 4. | The wheel-barrow broke and my wife got a fall; Down came wheel-barrow, wife and all.Chorus |
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| 5. | Swapped my wheel-barrow and got me a horse; Then I rode from course to course.Chorus |
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| 6. | Swapped my horse and got me a mare; Then I rode from fair to fair.Chorus |
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| 7. | Swapped my mare and got me a mule; Then I rode like a dog-gone fool.Chorus |
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| 8. | Swapped my mule and got me a goat; When I got on him, he wouldn’t tote.Chorus |
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| 9. | Swapped my goat and got me a sheep; Then I rode myself to sleep.Chorus |
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| 10. | Swapped my sheep and got me a cow; And in that trade I just learned how.Chorus |
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| 11. | Swapped my cow and got me a calf; In that trade I just lost half.Chorus |
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| 12. | Swapped my calf and got me a hen; Oh, what a pretty thing I had then.Chorus |
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| 13. | Swapped my hen and got me a rat; Put it on a haystack away from the cat.Chorus |
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| 14. | Swapped my rat and got me a mouse; It tail caught a-fire and burned up my house.Chorus |
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| 15. | Swapped my mouse and got me a mole; The dog-gone thing went straight to it’s hole.Chorus |
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