Hi Guest,

For the sheet music, I do a search on Google on the name of the song with the words "sheet music" after it, and then click the image search button, e.g.

"Popeye the sailor man sheet music"

Here is pages 1 & 2 of the original sheet music:

Popeye the Sailor Man - sheet music

For ABC files I first do a similar Google web search for
"Popeye the sailor man abc notation" but in this case nothing came up, so my second trick is to do a search for midi files of the song:

"Popeye the sailor man midi"

and then use a free music notation programme e.g. Noteworthy Composer to isolate the melody line from the midi, if necessary, and then save the midi file and use a midi to ABC converter online to convert it to ABC.

It's a lot easier for me to just read it from the sheet music so I don't bother with all that mucking about as soon as I have found the sheet music.

Be careful because the Popeye theme tune is not the same as Popeye the Sailor Man. If you just want the theme tune it is also known as Sailor's Hornpipe:

Popeye theme tune, or The Sailor's Hornpipe

Helen