E.R. White arranged it for John G. McCurry's 1855 shapenote tunebook THE SOCIAL HARP. Unlike most other volumes in the style, THE SOCIAL HARP contains a number of secular pieces meant for use in singing schools. A recording is available from Rounder on the album The Social Harp: Early American Shape-Note Songs. I caution that it is one of the weaker tunes on the album (and indeed in the entire book, which contains many exceptional pieces unprinted in the tunebooks that still see regular use). Here is the given verse: Buonaparte is a-far, From his war and his fighting; He has gone to a place He can never delight in; He may list to the winds On the great Mount Diana, While alone he remains On the Isle of Saint Helena.
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