Mary, Thanks for the proofreading. I touch-typed the ABC while looking only at Allen's score and clearly didn't profread it carefully enough.

The ABC standard specifies that you can defeat automatic bars by separating the notes with one or more spaces. Normally, I'd type the ABC so that bars are used but I was trying to duplicate Allen's score for purely academic purposes. I also included the repeats that Allen specified although it makes my MIDI file longer than it needs to be. At first glance, I thought Allen didn't have bar lines available to him for publication but as I scan down the list, I see he does use bar lines in some cases. Perhaps the notation was hurriedly scribbled down during an actual performance and the engraver just duplicated Allen's notes without asking any questions.

Susan sent me your MIDI file so I can compare them and try to have mine approximate yours. Mine really should have included a repeat-to line and dots at the beginning of measure one. I didn't put it in because I wanted to match Allen's printed score. Since we don't really care about the engraved score for this effort, I can encode the ABC especially to produce MIDI files and have a result similar or identical to yours.

In song number 1, Roll, Jordan, Roll, Allen seems to indicate that each verse is sung twice followed by twice through the refrain. Is that the way you read it?

One aspect of my MIDI file is that I think it can be used as a karaoke file without changes. Just change the .mid extension to .kar and I think it could be used in a karaoke machine or PC karaoke program. I don't know whether that's a useful feature but it should work.

      - Mark