Introducing the subdominant (4th, Fa), with a half note
and an ascending tonic arpeggio.
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- Grade: Kindergarten
- Origin: USA - Traditional
- Key: C Major
- Time: 2/4
- Form: AaB
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti |
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ta/a_|_a ti ti | (_=tie)
- Pitches: intermediate: Do Mi Fa So - introduces the 4th, Fa
- Intervals: intermediate: Do/Mi/So ascending tonic arpeggio, Mi\Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, tied note, introduces half note, introducing the subdominate (4th, Fa), tonic arpeggio
- Key Words: parts of a locomotive engine; throttle, boiler, wheels, rail, whistle, trains, train tracks, miles, wreck, neck, hair, head, thousand (1000)
- Keyboard: beginners: four finger exercise for the right, left, and two hands together
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"Reuben's Coming"
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Reuben's coming down the track,
And he's got his throttle back,
And the tracks are a' taking him from home. |
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If the boiler don't bust
'Cause it's eat up with rust,
I'll soon be a long ways from home. |
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If you don't believe I'm gone,
Look at the train I'm on;
You can hear the whistle blow a thousand miles. |
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I'm a-going down the track;
I ain't never coming back,
And I'll never get no letter from my home. |
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Well, the train run so fast
Till I knowed it couldn't last,
For the wheels was a-burning up the rail. |
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Old Reuben had a wreck
And it broke old Reuben's neck,
And it never hurt a hair on my head. |
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Now I'm walking up the track,
Hoping I'll get back;
I'm a thousand miles away from home. |
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