- Grade: First
- Origin: Southern, USA - Appalachian Folk Song
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AaBC
- Rhythm: beginners: | ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti| ta ti ti ta ta |
| ta ta ti ti ti ti | ti ti ta ti ti ti ti | ta ta ta/a |
- Pitches: beginners: So La Do Re Mi - pentatonic scale
- Intervals: beginners: Do\La, La/Do
- Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, eighth; pentatonic scale, vocal slur, verse, chorus
- Key Words: USA geography, Appalachian, swap, none-sense song, none-sense words: wing, wong, waddle, saddle, faddle, jackstraw (straw discarded after harvest); animals: rats, mice, horse, mare, mule, goat, sheep, cow, calf, hen, mouse, mole; farm animals, farming, wife, narrow, wheelbarrow, tote, trade, half, haystack, a-fair, caught, dog gone, bread, cheese, it's (possessive), straight; contractions: wouldn't (would not)
- Keyboard: advanced: challenging one hand exercise for upper grades, where Do is the third (3rd) finger in each hand
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