• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – J. A. Roff – 1882
  (The Great Rock Island Route)
• Key: G Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: AB – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta/ ti ta ta | ta ta/a ti ti | ta/a/a ti ti | ta ta ta ta | ta ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ta/a/a ta | ta ta/a ta |
• Pitches: intermediate: fa so la ti do re mi so
• Intervals: intermediate: so/do (P4), mi/so8 (m3), so8\mi (m3), do\fa (P5), so/ti/re ascending dominant arpeggio (IV, D), re\ti (m3), so/ti\so (M3), do\so (P4)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, repeat signs, first and second endings, verse/refrain, syncopation, dominant arpeggio, repeated melodic rhythm patterns, two double barlines
• Key Words: USA history, USA geography: New York, NY; St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Minnesota; world oceans: Pacific, Atlantic; world geography: Labrador; fictional railroad, jingle, roar, locomotive, train whistle, thunder, engine, streams along, shore, eastern states, Southlands, western people, rippling waters, Daddy Klaxton, remembered, earthly race, curtain, victory; contractions: we’ll (we will), here’s (here is), it’s (it is) there’s (there is); abbreviation: ’round (around)
• Recorder: intermediate: introducing high E and high G, dominant arpeggio, syncopation, repeated melodic rhythm patterns

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