• Grade: Fourth
• Origin: USA – Folk Ballad, circa. early 1800’s
• Key: G Major
• Time: 3/4
• Form: staves: ABAb – song: AB, verse/refrain
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti | ta/ ti ti ti | ti ti ti ti ti ti |
• Pitches: beginners: so la ti do re mi fa
• Intervals: advanced: so/do/mi ascending tonic (I) arpeggio (G), mi\so (M6), ti/re (m3), so/fa (m7), do\so/do (P4), re\so (P5)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beats, tonic arpeggio, vocal slurs
• Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Wilbraham, Massachusetts (songs origins), Timothy Merrick 1761 (subject of song), dwell (live), handsome, youth, Monday morning, meadow, mow grass, cutting grass, mowed, half, field, pesky, sarpent (serpent), heel, took, scythe*, bit, blow, rattlesnake, laid

* scythe: a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are one or two short handles.

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