• Grade: Fifth (5)
• Origin: African American Spiritual
  Attributed to James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABCD
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta ta ti ti | (ta) ta ta/ ti | ta ta ta ta | ta/a (ti) ti | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/ ti ta ti ti | (ta) ti/ ri ta ta | (ta) ta ta/ ti | ta/a ta ta | ta/a/a/a |
• Pitches: advanced: do ra re me mi fa fi so si la ti do
• Intervals: intermediate: do/mi\do (M3), do/ra (m2) ra/fa\ra (M3), re/fi\re (M3), re/me (m2), me/so\me (M3), mi/si\mi (M3), fa/la\fa (M3), mi/so (m3)
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter, eighth; pickup measure, pickup beat, melodic rhythm patterns, repeated intervals of a major third, pitches: accidentals: flat second ra, flat mediant me, sharp subdominant fi,  sharp dominant si, flat  second re, flat third  me- raised fourth fi,  raised fifth si, chromatic movement
• Key Words: Sacred, African American Spiritual, African American history, Bible verses Ezekiel 37:1-14, Bible stories, connecting human bones, skeleton, Halloween

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