• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: Ireland/USA – Shanty – Railroad Work Song – 1864
• Key: A minor (pitched in C Major)
• Time: 6/8
• Form: AB – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti ti ti | ta ti ta ti | ta/ ta/ | ti ti ti ta ti | ta ti ta/ | ta/ ta ti|
• Pitches: beginners: mi fa so la ti do re
• Intervals: intermediate: la\mi/la (P4), do\la (m3), la/do (m3), re\ti (m3), do\so (P4) – perfect fourths and minor thirds are common in minor tonalities (keys)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, two double barlines, minor tonality (key), verse/refrain; 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would be equal a dotted quarter, note: refrain is a variation of phrases found within the verse
• Key Words: world geography: USA, Ireland; chanty, work chanty, work song, railroad, USA westward expansion, intercontinental railroad, Irish immigrants, railroad workers: track layers, gaugers, spikers, and bolters; 1841, corduroy, breeches (britches), old world, new world, spare, luck, brought, through, stocking, cravat (neck tie), straw hat
• Recorder: intermediate: minor tonality (key), in 6/8 time: eighth note receives one beat, divisions of a dotted quarter note: three eights (3 ti’s), feeling duple meter (2) in 6/8: where three eights would equal a dotted quarter

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