• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – Traditional Southern Blues Folk Song*
• Key: F Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta ti ti ti ri ti/ ti| syncopation, | ta/a (ta) ti ti | ta/a (ta) ri ti/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ri ta/ ti | ti ti ti ri ti/ ti ti | syncopation, | (ti) ti ti ti ti ri ti/ ti | syncopation, | ta/a/a (ti) ti | ta/a (ta) (ti) ti | ta/a (ta) ti ti |ti ti ti ti ti ti ri ti/| syncopation, | ti ri ti ri ti/ ta ti ti | ta ta ta ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: so la do re mi – pentatonic scale
• Intervals: intermediate: do\la/do (m3), so/do (P4), so/mi (M6), mi\do (M3), do\so (P4), do/mi (M3)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, syncopation on the second quarter of the beat (ee), D.C. al Fine, Fine, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain
• Key Words: USA history, music styles: blues/country; camp song, scout song, character education, friendship, caring for others, empathy, camp song, pallet, dissatisfied, account, nearly, someday, friend, home; contraction; it’ll (it will), don’t (do not); abbreviation: ’cause (because)
• Recorder: intermediate: beginners pitches with advanced syncopation, practicing the lower register with a quick tempo

* W. C. Handy used a variation of this tune for his song “Atlanta Blues.”

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