Comparing straight rhythms to dotted rhythms. Beginning phrases on the second half of the second beat.
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- Grade: Second
- Origin: African - Traditional
- Key: G Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AaBBbbCCDE
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti ti | ti ti (ti) ti ri | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti | ti ti (ti) ti |
ti ti ri ti |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: intermediate: call: So/Do, Mi\Do, Do\La, So/So dominate octave skip entrance, Do/So, Do\So entrance; response: no intervals
- Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; rest: eighth; pickup beat, syncopation, call and response
- Key Words: Easter, holiday, seasonal, seasons, spring garden, farming, farmer, growing plants, vegetables, rabbit, habit, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, Fall, cotton; contractions: ain't (am not), gonna (going to)
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"John the Rabbit"
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| Oh, John the rabbit, |
oh, yes, |
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| Got a mighty habit, |
oh, yes, |
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| Jumping in my garden, |
oh, yes, |
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| Cutting down my cabbage, |
oh, yes, |
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| My sweet potatoes, |
oh, yes, |
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| My fresh tomatoes, |
oh, yes, |
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| And if I live, |
oh, yes, |
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| To see next fall, |
oh, yes, |
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| I ain't gonna have, |
oh, yes, |
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| Any cotton at all, |
oh, yes. (no) |
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| Alternate responses: |
yes,ma'em |
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no, ma'em |
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yes, sir |
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no, sir |
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