- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA, North Carolina – Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta | ta/a/a ta | ta/a ti ti ta | ta/a ta/ ti | ta ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta/a ta |
- Pitches: beginners: so la do re mi so la – extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: so\mi (m3), do/so8 (P5), mi/so (m3), mi\do (M3), do\la/do (m3), do\so/do (P5); distinguishing between the minor third (m3) do\la/do and the perfect fourth (P4, do\so/do)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, straight and dotted, pentatonic scale, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Appalachia, North Carolina, mountain music, courting song, love song, apple, passed, bite, along, needle, sew, fine, coat tails, road, ought, down south, sweet, honeybees, swarm, shapped, parlor, coolded, mortal man, mouth; abbreviations: hangin’ (hanging), ev’ry (every), contractions: she’d (she would), I’d (I would) pret’ist (prettiest), that’s (that is)
- Recorder: intermediate: syncopated repeated pitches
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