- Grade: Third
- Origin: USA – African American Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABCD
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti/ ri | syncopation, | ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: so la do re mi so la
- Intervals: intermediate: so\do, mi\do, do/mi, mi\do\la\so descending minor 6th w/7th arpeggio
(Dm 7), so/do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; D minor seventh, Dm 7 arpeggio, moving to a syncopated second beat, contrasting syncopation with straight eights
- Key Words: play song, party song, African American playground song, brickyard, remember, step it, shake it, clap it; abbreviations: ’round (a round), goin’ (going)
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