These additional songs, many of which utilize the Minor Scale, may be played after the material in Lesson 21 of the Progressive Harmonica Method has been covered. Some of these songs are rhythmically quite complex.
This song requires a complex use of partial beats. This is illustrated by the notes used under the word "Tripoli". The 5i beneath "Tri" receives one-half of a beat. Then the note 4i under the "po —" begins, and receives one and one-half beats, as indicated by the line continuiing from the "po", which has an additional timing slash above it. This same complex timing is used three more times during the song.
This song requires timing similar to that of the "Song of the Marines". In the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and fourteenth bars, the notes under the words "come out to-night" are timed as follows. The note under "Come" has one-half beat, the note under "out —" is held for one beat, as indicated by the line continuiing from the "out", and the note under "to —" is held for one-half of a beat.
As in the two previous songs, the line continuing after the syllable "er" in "Riv-er — side" indicates that the note under the "er" is to be held for one and one-half beats.
This song is theoretically difficult, as is explained in Progressive Blues Harmonica, but technically quite easy to play.
