- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: USA, North Carolina - Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB - verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta ta ta ta | ta ta/a ta | ta/a/a ta | ta/a ti ti ta | syncopation, | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation, | ta ta ti ti ta ta | ta ta/a ta | syncopation
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi So La - extended pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: So\Mi (m3), Do/So8 (P5), Mi/So (m3), Mi\Do (M3), Do\La/Do (m3), Do\So/Do (P5); distinguishing between the minor third (m3) Do\La/Do and the perfect fourth (P4, Do\So/Do)
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; pickup beat, straight and dotted syncopation, pentatonic scale, verse/refrain
- Key Words: USA history, USA geography: Appalachia, North Carolina, mountain music, courting song, love song, apple, passed, bite, along, needle, sew, fine, coat tails, road, ought, down south, sweet, honeybees, swarm, shapped, parlor, coolded, mortal man, mouth; abbreviations: hangin' (hanging), ev'ry (every), contractions: she'd (she would), I'd (I would) pret'ist (prettiest), that's (that is)
- Recorder: intermediate: syncopated repeated pitches
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