- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: USA – African American Work Song
- Key: C Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ta/a | (ta) ta ta ta |ti ta ta/ (ti) ti | syncopation, | ti ta ta/a/ | syncopation, | ta/ ta/ ta| syncopation | ta/ ta/a/ | syncopation, | (ta) ta ta ta | syncopation
- Pitches: beginners: do re mi fa so la
- Intervals: intermediate: so\mi (m3), mi/la (P4)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, two double barlines, call/response, verse/refrain, syncopation on the second half of the first, second, and fourth beats (& of 1, & of 2, & of 4), repeated syncopated entrances on the second beat, and syncopated rhythmic divisions of half beats into groups of 3-3-2
- Key Words: USA history, African American histroy, Georgia Sea Islands, slave ships, slave trade, thought, captain, sailing day, boat, dock bar, boat dock, knocked, end of a spar (thick, strong pole), pay, money down
NOTE: refrain is composed of the calls and responses:
measures 10-11 are syncopated variations of measures 2-3,
measures 12-13 changes one pitch from measures 4-5,
measures 14-17 mirror measures 6-9 omitting one beat/pitch
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