Second Grade Music
We Gather Here Together
We gather here together with joyful heart and mind
We raise our voices ever, our distant souls to bind
To remember in this moment of friendship love and joy
That music made together may one day heal mankind
To remember in this moment of friendship love and joy
That music made together may one day heal mankind
This Land Is Your Land
By Woody Guthrie
Refrain Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
1. As I was walking that ribbon highway,
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley,
This land was made for you and me
Refrain Chorus
2. I roamed and rambled I followed my footsteps,
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was singing
This land was made for you and me
Refrain Chorus
3. The sun was shining as I was strolling,
Wheat fields waving, dust clouds rolling
A voice was singing, the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me
Refrain Chorus
Sail Away Ladies - American Folk Song
Ain’t no use to sit and cry, Sail away ladies, sail away
You’ll be an angel by and by, Sail away ladies, sail away
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh. Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Z Z
I got a home in Tennessee, Sail away ladies, sail away
That’s the place I want to be, Sail away ladies, sail away
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Z Z
Ever get my new house done, Sail away ladies, sail away
Give the old one to my son, Sail away ladies, sail away
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Z Z
Come along boys and go with me, Sail away ladies, sail away
We’ll go back to Tennessee, Sail away ladies, sail away
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
Don’t you rock’em di dee oh! Don’t you rock’em di dee oh!
2nd Grade Music
Choose 3 music class activities from the list.
Do this twice per week or more if you want!
Sing a song you learned in music class to a friend or family member.
Some suggestions:
We Gather Here Together
I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
I Will Be Your Friend
Sail Away Ladies
Sing a song and march the beat.
Sing a song and clap the way the words go.
Create a 4 beat rhythm pattern using Ta, TiTi, and Rest
Listen to 3 of your favorite songs and tap a steady beat with an object you find at
home.
Make up a dance to a favorite song or recorded music.
Listen to a favorite song. Describe what you hear using music words such as
loud/quiet, fast/slow, high sounds/low sounds.
Using items you have at home, make them into instruments to show the steady
beat: find things that you can hit, shake, or scrape. Play along with a song.
Music Resources
Here are some great resources for exploring and creating music.
Try two of these per week, or more often if you want to. Let me know what you try and what your thoughts are.
• Chrome Music Lab https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/
• MPR - https://www.classicalmpr.org/topic/musiclesson
• MPR Story Time - https://www.classicalmpr.org/topic/classical-kids-storytime
• Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Concert Library
https://content.thespco.org/music/concert-library/
• Rhythm Reading http://www.philtulga.com/counter.html
• Musical Instruments Museum http://www.mim.org
• DSO Kids http://mydso.com/dso-kids
I've Been Working on the Railroad - American Folk Song
I've been working on the railroad
All the live-long day.
I've been working on the railroad
Just to pass the time away.
Don't you hear the whistle blowing,
Rise up so early in the morn;
Don't you hear the captain shouting,
"Dinah, blow your horn!"
Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?
Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow,
Dinah, won't you blow your horn?
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen I know
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Strummin' on the old banjo!
Singin' fee, fie, fiddly-i-o, Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o-o-o-o
Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o, Strummin' on the old banjo.
Home On The Range
This version includes all the lyrics. Enjoy!!
Home on the Range
1.Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Refrain:
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
2. How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars
Have I stood there amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours
Refrain:
Home, home on the range………..
3. Then give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely down to the stream
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream
Refrain:
Home, home on the range…………..
4. Where the air is so pure, and the zephyrs so free
The breezes so balmy and light
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright
Refrain:
Home, home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Great Big House In New Orleans
Great big house in New Orleans, forty stories high
Every room that I been in, filled with pumpkin pie
Went down to the old mill stream, fetch a pail of water
Put one arm around my wife and the other round my daughter
Fare thee well my darling girl, fare thee well my daughter
Fare thee well my darling girl with the golden slippers on her