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"Springfield Mountain"
       
     
"Springfield Mountain"
 


"Springfield Mountain," Lyrics, Text Format



Syncopation for beginners, less than an octave in range,
with an advanced minor seventh interval So/Fa.

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Description
 
  • Grade: Fourth

  • Origin: USA - Folk Ballad, circa. early 1800's

  • Key: G Major

  • Time: 3/4

  • Form: staves: ABAb - song: AB, verse/refrain

  • Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ti ti | ta/ ti ti ti | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti |

  • Pitches: beginners: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa

  • Intervals: advanced: So/Do/Mi ascending tonic (I) arpeggio (G), Mi\So (M6), Ti/Re (m3), So/Fa (m7), Do\So/Do (P4), Re\So (P5)

  • Musical Elements: notes: dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beats, syncopation, tonic arpeggio, vocal slurs

  • Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Wilbraham, Massachusetts (songs origins), Timothy Merrick 1761 (subject of song), dwell (live), handsome, youth, Monday morning, meadow, mow grass, cutting grass, mowed, half, field, pesky, sarpent (serpent), heel, took, scythe*, bit, blow, rattlesnake, laid

*scythe: a tool used for cutting crops such as grass or wheat, with a long curved blade at the end of a long pole attached to which are one or two short handles.


 
 


"Springfield Mountain"

           
    1. On Springfield Mountain there did dwell
A handsome youth: I knew him well.
   
      Refrain:    
      Too loo-re-lay, too loo-re-lay,
Too loo-re-lay, too loo-re-loo.
   
   
2.
One Monday morning he did go
Down in the meadow for to mow.
   
      Refrain    
    3. When he had mowed but half the field,
A pesky sarpent bit his heel.
   
      Refrain    
    4. He took the scythe and with a blow,
He laid the pesky sarpent low.
   
      Refrain    
           

 

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