• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual, cir. 1872
• Key: G Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABA, refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta/ ti ri | ti ti ri ti/ | syncopation, | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ri ti | ta (ti) ti | ti ti ti/ ri |
• Pitches: beginners: so la do re mi
• Intervals: intermediate: mi\do\la descending submediant arpeggio (Em), la/do, do/mi, mi\do\so descending tonic arpeggio, so/do, do\la, do\so – contrasting the descending intervals do\la and do\so
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, fermata, Da Capo al Fine, Fine, two double barlines, syncopation
• Key Words: USA history, sacred, Civil Rights song, Underground Railroad, African American history, gospel train, whistle, curve, loosened, steam engine, steam brakes, nerve, fare, cheap, rich, poor, second class, aboard, difference; abbreviations; comin’ (coming), blowin’ (blowing), rumblin’ (rumbling)strainin’ (straining), ev’ry (every); contractions: there’s (there is), train’s (train is), she’s (she is)

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