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"Fed My Horse"
       
     
"Fed My Horse"
 


"Fed My Horse," Lyrics, Text Format



Beginners syncopation in the pentatonic scale while distinguishing the ascending intervals Mi/So from Mi/La.

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Description
 
  • Grade: Fourth

  • Origin: USA - Southern Appalachian Folk Song

  • Key: F Major

  • Time: 2/4

  • Form: staves: AaAaB - song AB verse/chorus

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

  • Pitches: beginners: Do Re Mi So La - pentatonic scale

  • Intervals: intermediate: Mi/So, So\Mi, Mi/La, Do/Mi

  • Musical Elements: notes: quarter, dotted eighth, eighth; repeat sign, verse/chorus

  • Key Words: USA geography, Southern Appalachia, earth science: poplar (fast growing tree in southern USA); trough (a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink from), silver spoon, kicked, over the moon, dead and gone, jawbones, plowing

 
 


"Fed My Horse"

       
  1. Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Fed my horse in a poplar trough,
Then she caught the whooping cough.
 
    Chorus:  
    Coy malindo
Killko, killko:
Coy malindo
Killko me.
 
 
2.
Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
Fed my horse in a silver spoon,
And then he kicked it over the moon.
 
    Chorus  
  3. My old horse is dead and gone,
My old horse is dead and gone,
My old horse is dead and gone,
But he left his jawbones plowing the corn.
 
    Chorus  
       

 

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