Extending the vocal range with the pentatonic scale.
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- Grade: Third
- Origin: USA, New England, Appalachia - Traditional
- Key: E flat Major
- Time: C - common time (4/4)
- Form: rhythm ABAB - pitches: ABCD - song AB
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ti ti ti ti ta | ta ta ta ta |
| ta/a ta/a | ti ti ta ta/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: So La Do Re Mi So La Do - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: intermediate: Do8\So\Mi descending tonic arpeggio, Mi/So, Do\La, So/Do, Do/La
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth, common time (4/4), tonic arpeggio, extending the vocal range
- Key Words: USA geography, New England, Appalachia, courting song, chickens, nonsense phrase/words, pretty, count, darling, daisy, crazy, swimming, across, river, winter, shiver, river, step; colloquial words: holler (down in the valley), foller (follow); contractions: can't (cannot), I'll (I will), won't (will not); abbreviations: a-crowin' (a crowing), 'em (them)
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"Sourwood Mountain"
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Chickens a-crowin' on Sourwood Mountain,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
So many pretty girls, I can't count 'em,
Hey, hey, diddle um day. |
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2. |
I call my darling a blue-eyed daisy,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
If she won't have me, I'll go crazy,
Hey, hey, diddle um day. |
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3. |
My true love lives at the head of the holler,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
She won't come and I won't foller,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
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4. |
Ducks go a-swimming across the river,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
And in the winter, we sure do shiver,
Hey, hey, diddle um day. |
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5. |
My true love lives over the river,
Hey, hey, diddle um day.
A few more steps and I'll be with her,
Hey, hey, diddle um day. |
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