- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – words: Edward Madden, music: Percy Wenrich – 1912
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: chorus of the popular tune: phrases: ABAC
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta | ta/a/a/a_|_ta ta ti ta/| (_=tie), | ta/a (ta/a) | (ta) ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | ta/a ta/a |
- Pitches: advanced: so si la do ra re ri mi fa fi – raised/sharp dominant (5, si), lowered/flat supertonic (2, ra), raised/sharp supertonic (2, ri), raised/natural subdominant (4, fi)
- Intervals: advanced: mi\ri/mi (m2), mi\so (M6), so/si/la (chromatic m2’s), la/fa (M6), mi/fi\mi (M2), re\ra/re (m2), so/do (P4), re\so/re (P5), mi\do (M3)
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beats, accidentals: sharp supertonic (2, ri), flat supertonic (2, ra), sharped dominant (5, si), natural subdominant (4, fi); tied notes, chromatic movement
- Key Words: USA history, courting song, sailing, voices ringing, stolen my heart, seemed, “Love’s Old Sweet Song”; abbreviation: ‘way (away); contraction: don’t (do not), possessive: love’s
- Recorder: advanced: introducing C#, G#, Gb, and Bb, syncopation, accidentals: natural, sharp, flat
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