X:161
T: the Happy Farmer
C: Robert Schumann
%R: air, march
N: This is version 1, for ABC software that doesn't understand voice overlays.
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: 1/8
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/161-the_Happy_Farmer-V1.abc 2024-11-27 170937 UT
K: F
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w: 1.~Oh! what can with our flow'r-y plains com-pare, In all their match-less
w: 2.~The bright green fields, the beau-teous gold-en corn, The birds so sweet-ly
w: 3.~We sing sweet songs and join the mer-ry dance, And joy-ful-ness and
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w: beau-ty that's so bright and fair, What gild-ed halls can
w: sing-ing in the ear-ly morn, Make bright our task and
w: pleas-ure doth each heart en-trance, Till night's dark man-tle
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w: ri-val na-ture's bow'rs, 'Neath which we gai-ly pass a-way the
w: cheeri-ly through the day Doth pass on swift-ly fleet-ing wings the
w: clos-ing o-ver day, Bids each with light-some heart a-way to
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w: even-ing hours, When work well done hath pleas-ure fair-ly won? | ~ ~ ~ |
w: hours a-way, 'Till close of day brings pleas-ure in-to play! | rest, a-way! |
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