• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – words: Ren Shields – music: George Evans – cir. 1902
• Key: B flat Major
• Time: 3/4
• Form: phrases: ABCD
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta/a| ta/a/a_|_a ta ta | ta/a ta | ta/a/a_|_a/a/a | ta/a/a_|_a (ta) ta | ta ta ta | ( _|_=tied across barline)
• Pitches: beginners: mi so la do re mi – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: so\mi, mi/so/do/mi8 ascending tonic arpeggio, do\la, so\mi, re\so, la/do, do\so
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, tied notes, long phrases, tonic arpeggio, pentatonic scale
• Key Words: USA history, Tim Pan Alley, USA geography: New York, New York, from the musical “The Defender,” summertime, strolling, shady lanes, baby mine, tootsey wootsey

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