• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: Spiritual
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: AB – refrain/verse
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ta/ ta/a | syncopation, | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ti ti ta | ta ta ta/a | ta ta ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi so la – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio, so\mi\do descending tonic arpeggio, do/la, la\mi, do/so, mi/la
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; repeat sign, refrain/verse, vocal slur, call and response, syncopation
• Key Words: USA civil rights, African American history, civil rights protest song, African American spiritual, sacred, freedom, God, almighty, crippled, lame, Jesus, yonder (a distance away), graveyard, knees, soul, rise and fly, mornings, bright, fair, King Jesus; contractions: I’m (I am); abbreviations: an’ (and), walkin’ (walking), pass’d (passed), goin’ (going), tho’t (thought), possessive: Jesus’

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