• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – Folk Song
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: AB – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/ ti | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta (ta) ta | ta ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta/a/a/a |
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi so la do – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: do\la, so\mi/so, mi/la\mi, do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio, so\do, la\do
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, syncopation, tied notes, vocal slurs
• Key Words: USA history, slaves, impossible dreams, metaphors for impossible things, sacred, after-life, heaven, paradise, hollow log, Blue Jay, green bull frog, weave and spin, moon, spoon, grief, pain, bright, beyond, wings, dream, touch, tender, yonder (down in the valley); contractions: can’t (cannot), they’ll (they will), don’t (do not)

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