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Advanced syncopation and an extended pentatonic scale,
produces a spiritual which is challenging and fun!
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- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA - Wallis Willis (Choctaw Freedman)
circa. 1860's
- African American Spiritual
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: ABA - refrain/verse/refrain
- Rhythm: advanced: | ta/a/a ta | ta/ ti ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ti ti ti ti ta | ta/a (ta) ti ti |
| ti ta ti ti ta ti | syncopation, | ti ti ta ti ta/ | syncopation, | ti ti ta ta ta | ti ti ti ti ti ta/ |
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La - extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Mi\Do/Mi\Do (M3), Do\La (m3), So/Do (P4), Do.../Mi../So8.. ascending tonic arpeggio with repeated pitches, So8\Mi/So8 (m3), So8\Do (P5)
- Musical Elements: notes: doted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; pickup beat, syncopation, pentatonic scale, tonic arpeggios, two double barlines, refrain/verse/refrain, D.C. al Fine, Fine
- Key Words: USA history; underground railroad, African American History, USA geography: Choctaw County, Hugo, Oklahoma; Wallis Willis (composer), Jubilee Singers, scared, spiritual, civil rights movement song; world geography: Jordan River (Middle East); chariot, band of angels, Heaven, soul, heavenly, bound, brightest, sins, Jesus, Bible stories
- Recorder: advanced: playing in F Major (pentatonic scale), syncopation, tonic arpeggio
Partner song: "All Night, All Day!"
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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
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Refrain |
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Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home,
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry my home.
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I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?
Coming for to carry me home,
A band of angels coming after me.
Coming for to carry me home.
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Refrain |
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If you get there before I do,
Coming for to carry me home,
Tell all my friends I'm coming, too.
Coming for to carry me home. |
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Refrain |
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I'm sometimes up and sometimes down,
Coming for to carry me home,
But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
Coming for to carry me home. |
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The brightest day that I can say,
Coming for to carry me home,
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home. |
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Refrain |
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