• Grade: Fifth
• Origin: USA – Texas Folk Song, circa. 1858
• Key: A flat Major
• Time: 4/4
• Form: Aa – verse/refrain
• Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta | ta ta ta/ ti | ta/a/a ta | ta/a/a ti ti |
• Pitches: intermediate: mi fa so la ti do re mi fa
• Intervals: advanced: mi/so (m3), mi/so/do/ ascending tonic arpeggio (I, Ab), mi8\so (m6), so/mi8 (m6), re\so (P5), so\mi/so (m3), so/fa (m7), do\so (P4)
• Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, interval of a minor seventh (so/fa), melodic rhythm patterns
• Key Words: North American geography: Rio Grande (river); USA history, Texas Folk Lore; Texas love song, fellow, nearly, never part, sweetest rose, diamonds, sparkle, dew, Clementine, Rosalie, flowing, starry skies, quiet summer night, remembers, parted, promised, woe, banjo, gaily, yore, evermore; contractions: there’s (there is), I’m (I am), we’ll (we will), she’s (she is); abbreviation: goin’ (going)
• Recorder: intermediate: introducing high F, minor seventh Eb/Db, tonic arpeggio

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