• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – Folk Song – additional verses Jess Buice
• Key: C Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: staves: AaBb – song AB
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti ta | ti ti ri ti ti | ta (ta) | ta ta | ti ri ti ri ta ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: do re mi fa so do
• Intervals: intermediate: do/mi, so\do, do/do ascending tonic octave skip, do\so\mi descending tonic arpeggio
• Musical Elements: notes: quarter, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; octave skip, tonic arpeggios, each line and phrase ends with a rest
• Key Words: USA history, rainy day song, bad weather song: rain, sun, wind; dance all day, I don’t care, carry me away, shine, down; contractions: don’t (do not), I’m (I am), gonna (going to); abbreviation: ’round (around)
• Recorder: intermediate: excellent for practicing the lower register: tonic (C) through the dominate (G), with an added tonic octave skip
• Keyboard: intermediate: a five finger exercise with an octave skip

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