- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA – James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor
circa: 1894
- Key: G Major
- Time: 3/4
- Form: AB – verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta | ta ta ta | ta/a/a | ta/a ti ti | ta ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: so la ti do re mi fa so
- Intervals: intermediate: m3: mi/so8, do\la/do;
M3: mi\do/mi; P4: so/do, re\la, do/fa; P5: la/mi
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; tied notes, changing rhythms for verse syllables, repeating melodic rhythm patterns, fermata, two double barlines
- Key Words: USA geography: New York, New York; stoop, evening, waltz, organ, baker, dough, dude, cork, East side, West side, tots (children), “Ring A-round the Rosie”, “London Bridge is Falling Down”, Mamie O’Rourke (married to “Diamond Dan” O’Rourke, early manager of the baseball player Jim Jeffries), tripped the light fantastic ( to dance), up in “G” (refers to the G train in the Subway); contractions: that’s (that is), they’ll (they will); possessive: Casey’s; abbreviation: wand’rers (wanderers)
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