• Grade: Fifth
  
  
• Origin: USA - words: Edward Madden, music: Percy Wenrich - 1912
  
  
• Key: F Major
  
  
• Time: 4/4
  
  
• Form: phrases: ABAC*
  
  
• Rhythm: intermediate: | ti/ ri ti/ ri ta | syncopation,
  | ta/a/a/a_|_ta ta ti ta/ | syncopation (_=tie),
  | ta/a (ta/a) | (ta) ti/ ri ti/ ri ti/ ri | syncopation,
  | ta/a ta/a |
  
  
• Pitches: advanced: So Si La Do Ra Re Ri Mi Fa Fi - raised/sharp dominate (5, Si), lowered/flat supertonic (2, Ra), raised/sharp supertonic (2, Ri), raised/natural subdominant (4, Fi)
  
  
• Intervals: advanced: Mi\Ri/Mi (m2), Mi\So (M6), So/Si/La (chromatic m2's), La/Fa (M6), Mi/Fi\Mi (M2), Re\Ra/Re (m2), So/Do (P4), Re\So/Re (P5), Mi\Do (M3)
  
  
• Musical Elements: notes: whole, dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; pickup beats, syncopation, accidentals: sharp supertonic (2, Ri), flat supertonic (2, Ra), sharped dominate (5, Si), natural subdominant (4, Fi); tied notes, chromatic movement
  
  
• Key Words: USA history, courting song, sailing, voices ringing, stolen my heart, seemed, "Love's Old Sweet Song"; abbreviation: 'way (away); contraction: don't (do not), possessive: love's
  
  
• Recorder: advanced: introducing C#, G#, Gb, and Bb, syncopation, accidentals: natural, sharp, flat

*Chorus from the popular early twentieth century song.