• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – Folk Song
• Key: D Major
• Time: 2/2, cut time, also shown in 4/4
• Form: AaBC
• Rhythm: intermediate*: | ti ri ta ti | syncopation,
  | ta ti ti | ta/a_|_a ta | ti ta ti | syncopation
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi fa so la
• Intervals: intermediate: do/mi, mi/so, so\mi\do descending tonic arpeggio, do/fa (P4), la\mi
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, syncopation in 2/2 time, tied notes, arpeggio, perfect fourth, vocal slur
• Key Words: USA history, counting song, counting two-nine, carry, river, train, brought, love, still true, anymore, survive, trix, heaven, Pearly Gate, mine, sacred; contractions: I’m (I am), gonna (going to), can’t cannot); abbreviation: ridin’ (riding)

* How do the lyric syllables change the beat divisions and rhythms in measures eleven and twelve (11,12)?

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