- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
- Key: E minor – pitched in G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABA Refrain-Verse-Refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ti ta/a (ti) ti |
syncopation | ti ta ta/ ti ti | syncopation | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ti ta ti ti ti ta |
syncopation | ta/a/a ti ti | ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ti ta/ | ti ta/ (ta) (ti) ti | syncopation | ta/a/a (ta) |
- Pitches: beginners: mi so la ti do re mi
- Intervals: beginners: la/do\la (m3), mi\do (M3), re\ti (m3), so\mi/so (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; syncopated rhythm patterns, D.C. al Fine, Fine
- Key Words: African American History, Underground Railroad, freeing slaves, drinking gourd (big dipper star constellation
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