- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – Traditional Cowboy Song
- Key: E Flat Major
- Time: 7/8 (uncommon time signature, grouped into 3-4)
- Form: staves, w/repeats: AABBaabbAB – w/o: ABabA
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ta ta | ta/a ta |
- Pitches: intermediate: so la ti do di re ri mi fa so – raised/natural tonic (1, di) and supertonic (2, ri)
- Intervals: intermediate: so/do (P4), mi\ri/mi (m2), mi\do (M3), re\di/re (m2), do/fa (P4), fa\re (m3)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: eighth; pickup beat (beginning each staff), multiple repeat signs (5), tied notes, 7/8 time signature (grouped into 4-3 eighths), sharp, natural, raised tonic and supertonic (di, ri)
- Key Words: USA history; USA geography: Laredo, Texas, world geography: Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; languages: English, Spanish; cowboy song, cowboy’s lament, cowboy’s farewell, sorely, secret heart, pain to part, chest of treasures, contain, great devotion, passion; contraction: I’m (I am)
- Recorder: advanced: Eb, Ab, Bb, F#, natural sign
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