Grand Isle
I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
5 8 8 8 3 4 5 - 6 5 3 4 5 1 2 3
5 8 8 7 5 6 6 5 3 3 2 5 6 7 5
5 3 3 3 1 2 3 4 4 4 2 3 4 5 5 5 3 4 5 6 6 7
6 5 8 8 8 7 5 6 7 6 5 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
MEANING:
Each number is a note of the major scale, and normally gets one beat.
A dash is a beat on which no note is played;
it may be thought of as extending the length of the previous note.
An underscored note gets half a beat;
so a pair of notes underscored share a beat.