- Grade: Fifth (5)
- Origin: United States – Virginia Folk Song – Round
- Key: D Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: ABA
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti ti ti ti ri | ti ti (ta) | ti ti ti/ ri | ti ta ti ri | syncopation, | ti ta ti | ti ti ti ti | ta/a |
- Pitches: beginning: do re mi so la do – pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: do/la (M6), do/mi (M3), so\mi (m3), do/do (P8) ascending tonic octave skip, do8\la (m3), so/do8 (P4), mi\do\la descending submediant triad, so/do (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rests: quarter; repeated rhythmic patterns, repeated pitch patterns and intervals, descending submediant triad Mi\So\La, syncopation, ascending tonic octave skip do/do, vocal slurs, three-part round/canon
- Key Words: United States history, Unites States geography: Virginia, Lord, sacred, contractions: singin’ (singing), mornin’ (morning), don’t (does not)
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