• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: D Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABA – chorus/verse/chorus
• Rhythm: advanced: |ti ti ti ta ta ti| syncopation, | ti ti ti ta ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a ti ti ta | ta/a/a ta | ta ta ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta/a |  ta ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a | ta ta ta ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: do re me mi fa so la te do – lowered/natural mediant (3, me), lowered/natural leading tone (7, te), blue note
• Intervals: intermediate: mi\do (M3), do/mi/so ascending tonic arpeggio (I, D), fa\re (m3), re/fa/la ascending supertonic arpeggio (ii, Em), do/so (P5), so/te\so (m3), so/do8 (P4), do8\la (m3), so\mi/so (m3), so\re/so  (P4), re/me/mi (chromatic m2’s)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied notes, vocal slurs, D.C. al Fine, Fine; chorus/verse/chorus, accidentals: natural sign, two double bar lines, ascending chromatic steps, supertonic and tonic arpeggios, blue note: lowered/natural leading tone
• Key Words: USA history, African American history, sacred, Bible story, judgement day, valley, bosom, pray, soul, peace, sun shines, cloudiest; abbreviations: ev’rything (everything), pray’r (prayer)
• Recorder: advanced: introducing F#, syncopation, natural sign, tonic and supertonic arpeggios (I-D, ii-Em), blue note: lowered leading tone

Partner song: “This Train“

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