Practicing two perfect fourths: Do/Fa, So\Re,
the perfect fifth: Do/So, and the subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La.
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- Grade: Second
- Origin: USA - Cowboy Song
- Key: D Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB - verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners:
| ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a/a ta |
- Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/So, So\Re, Fa\Re, Do/Fa/La ascending subdominant arpeggio (IV, G)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, verse/refrain, subdominant arpeggio Do/Fa/La
- Key Words: USA geography: Texas; USA history: Chisholm Trail, cowboy song, trail song, round-up, cowboy life, troubles, ten dollar horse, October, herd, morning, daylight, driving cattle, moon shine, bright, prairie, bacon, beans, cow tail; abbreviations: ridin' (riding), punchin' (punching), ol' (old), drivin' (driving); contraction: I'm (I am), it's (it is), I'd (I would); hyphenated: twenty-third
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"The Old Chisholm Trail"
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Oh, come along, boys, and listen to my tale,
I'll tell you of my troubles on the Old Chisholm Trail.
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Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea, yippy yea,
Come a ti-yi yippy yippy yea. |
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On a ten dollar horse and a forty dollar saddle,
I was ridin' and a punchin' Texas cattle. |
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We left ol' Texas October twenty-third
Drivin' up the trail with the U-2 herd. |
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I'm up in the morning before daylight,
And before I sleep the moon shine bright. |
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It's bacon and beans most every day,
I'd just as soon be eating prairie hay. |
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I woke up one morning on the Chisholm trail,
With a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail. |
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