- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: USA – African American Plantation Song
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ta ta | ti ti ta ta/a | ta ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: do re mi so la do – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: do/la, do\la, la\mi, la\do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; sixteenth divisions, repeat sign, melodic rhythm patterns, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA geography: Southern United States, African American history, baking bread, babies, doctor, bed, coffee, sick, children, dance, sing, kitchen, skillet, lid, dollars, jail, pigeon wing (dance), plantations; contractions: ain’t (is not), mama’s (mama is), gonna (going to); abbreviations: short’nin’ (shortening), lyin’ (lying), eatin’ (eating), ‘most (almost), makin’ (making)
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