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T: an Explanation
C: Hanoverian Folksong.
C: words: Charles Hendricks.
Q: "Moderato."
%R: march
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2015 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/8
L: 1/8
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/020_Explanation.abc	 2024-11-23 235049 UT
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w: 1.~Boys and girls, when days are balm-y, wear their light-est
w: 2.~Then when wraps and coats are dear to chil-dren ev-'ry-
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w: clothes, And wrap them-selves up warm as squir-rels soon as win-ter
w: where, The trees be-gin to shed their leaves and stand quite cold and
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w: shows; But trees are ver-y fun-ny, for in warm-est hours
w: bare. * May-be ev-'ry  sum-mer, just like me and you,
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w: They are dressed in man-y leaves, and some-time man-y flow'rs.
w: They out-grow their clothes and wait till spring weaves them a-new.
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