• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: G Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: intermediate: |ti ta ta/a/_|_a/a/a ta | syncopation, (_=tie), | ta ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta/a/a (ta) | ta ta ti/ ri ti/ ri | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta/a | ta ta ta/a | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta ti/ ri |
• Pitches: beginners: so la do re mi so – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: do\la (m3), so/do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio (I, G), so\mi\do descending tonic arpeggio (I, G), la/do (m3), mi\so (M6)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, tied notes, syncopation, tonic arpeggios, D.C. al Fine, Fine, refrain/verse/refrain, two double barlines
• Key Words: USA history, African American history, sacred, chariot wheel, working, Promised Land, shake her hand, hypocrite, street, teeth, lie; contractions: gonna (going to), ain’t (is not); abbreviations: partic’lar (particular), ’bout (about), shakin’ (shaking); Southern US dialect: yonder (a place down the way), wanta (want to), de (the)
• Recorder: intermediate: tonic arpeggios, long tied notes promote breath support

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