X:170
T: a Wish
C: German Adaptation.
C: German Tune.
N: Copyright 1916, by the Cable Company.
%R: air, waltz
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: 3/4
L: 1/4
F:http://roaringjelly.org/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/170_a_Wish.abc	 2024-11-23 232041 UT
K: Eb
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w: 1.~Had I but wings like thee,   Bird of the for-est tree,   With thee I'd fly
w: 2.~O'er towns and cit-ies great We'd speed and nev-er wait; O'er wood-lands wide,
w: 3.~Had I but wings like thee,   Bird of the for-est tree,   I'd fly a-way;
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w: O-ver the moun-tain blue,     O-ver the bil-lows too,      Thru the great blue sky.
w: Won-drous the sights I'd see, Could I but range with thee, Glad,* at thy side.
w: But that can nev-er be,       Ah! that can nev-er be;      Here* must I stay.
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