All the songs mentioned are (more or less) in what is known as Common Meter, for obvious reasons. If you look at a shape note book, many of the songs will have the meter, that is, the rhythmic structure, listed as a parenthetical abbreviation after the title. This helped (and still helps) with tune switching. Love the words but not the tune? No problem, find another C.M. tune and dive right in. I can't remember the other meters and don't have my shape note book with me. Now where else but on the Mudcat can you go from Animals to brothels to Gilligan's Island to shape note hymns?

Aloha, Mark