• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – Wallis Willis (Choctaw Freedman)
  circa. 1860’s – African American Spiritual
• Key: G Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: ABA – refrain/verse/refrain
• Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ta |ta/ ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a (ta) ti ti | ti ta ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta/ |
• Pitches: beginners: so la do re mi so la – extended pentatonic scale
• Intervals: beginners: mi\do/mi\do (M3), do\la (m3), so/do (P4), do…/mi../so8.. ascending tonic arpeggio with repeated pitches, so8\mi/so8 (m3), so8\do (P5)
• Musical Elements: notes: doted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tonic arpeggios, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain, D.C. al Fine, Fine
• Key Words: USA history; underground railroad, African American History, USA geography: Choctaw County, Hugo, Oklahoma; Wallis Willis (composer), Jubilee Singers, scared, spiritual, civil rights movement song; world geography: Jordan River (Middle East); chariot, band of angels, Heaven, soul, heavenly, bound, brightest, sins, Jesus, Bible stories
• Recorder: advanced: playing in F Major (pentatonic scale), syncopation, tonic arpeggio

Partner song: “All Night, All Day!”

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