• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – Folk Song American Revolutionary War
  circa. 1875-1883
• Key: C Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: through composed
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ti ti ta ta/a | ta/ ti ta/ ti | ta ta ta/ ti | ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ti ti | ta/a ta/a |
• Pitches: intermediate: do re mi so la ti do
• Intervals: intermediate: la\mi (P4), mi/so\mi/so (m3), so\do (P4), do/mi/la/do8 ascending submediant arpeggio (vi, Am), ti\so (M3)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; fermata, imperfect ending: melody ends on the sixth (la) which is in keeping with the subject (imperfect endings do not end on the tonic, (1, do), ascending submediant arpeggio
• Key Words: USA history, American Revolutionary War; world geography: tune has Irish (Ireland) origins; girlfriend’s lament, leaving for war, separated by war, Buttermilk Hill, blame, cry my fill, tear, mill, woe, soldier, rod and reel, spinning wheel, sword of steel, dye, dress, red, through, streets, beg, bread, lad, fled; contraction: I’ll (I will); abbreviation: ev’ry (every)
• Recorder: intermediate: Excellent sixth (6th) tune following the Beginning Recorder Songs.

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