X:136
T: the Oak-Tree
C: Mary Howitt.
N: This is version 1, for ABC software that doesn't understand voice overlays.
N: It's not clear whether Mary Howitt wrote the words, the tune, or both.
Q: "Lively."
%R: air, march
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/4
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/136-the_Oak-Tree-V1.abc	 2024-11-23 234438 UT
K: Ab
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w: 1.~Sing, sing,* for the oak-tree,      The mon-arch of the wood;
w: 2.~Four cen-turies grows the oak-tree, Nor doth its ver-dure fail.
w: 3.~The oak-tree of the for-est         Both east and west shall fly;
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w: Sing sing* for the oak-*tree,       That grow-eth green and good:
w: Its heart is like the i-ron-wood,   Its bark like plait-ed mail.
w: The bless-ings of a thou-sand lands Up-on our ship shall lie.
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w: That grow-eth green and branch-ing With-in the for-est shade,
w: Now cut us down the oak-tree,      The mon-arch of the wood,
w: She shall not be a war-ship,       No pi-rate shall she be,
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w: That grow-eth now and still shall grow When we are low-ly laid.
w: And of its tim-ber stout and strong    We'll build a ves-sel good.
w: But sail, a no-ble mer-chant ship.     Up-on the bound-less sea.
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