• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – African American Spiritual
• Key: F Major
• Time: 2/4
• Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: beginners: | ti/ ri ti/ ri | ta/a | ta ta | ti ta ti | syncopation
• Pitches: beginners: do re mi fa so ti
• Intervals: beginners: so\mi (m3), so/ti\so (M3), mi/so (m3), so\do (P5), do/mi (M3)
• Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beat, D.C. al Fine, Fine, two double barlines, syncopation, refrain/verse/refrain, solo section, group section
• Key Words: USA history; African American history, civil rights movement, sacred, Bible stories: pearly gates, Saint Peter, Kingdom of God; metaphor: storm/struggle, anchor, ocean, ship, bye and bye; contraction: we’ll (we will), she’s (she is), won’t (willl not); abbreviation: goin’ (going)
• Recorder: intermediate: syncopation, lower register practice

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