Here is a better ABC encoding of the whole song. I was going to suggest pasting the ABC into the ABC Convert-A-Matic Website to create a new MIDI file but their copy of abc2midi must not be current because it doesn't produce a valid MIDI file.

As an alternative, I've created the files myself and placed them out on the Web so they may be linked from this posting.

• Song Of My Hands MIDI file
  
• Song Of My Hands lead sheet (PDF)
  

Please let me know if these aren't satisfactory.

      - Mark



X:1
T:The Song Of My Hands
C:Bernie Asbel, ca. 1949
C:(transcription - Mark Clark, 2004)
S:Source: Dwight Saunders, Des Moines, IA - 1961
M:C
L:1/8
K:C
%%MIDI program 26 % Acoustic Guitar (steel)
%%MIDI chordprog 26 % Acoustic Guitar (steel)
Q:1/4=80
"C"C3C/C/E3D|C2"G7"D4D2|"C"C4-Cz2
w:This is a song a-bout work-in' hands._
Q:1/4=100
G,|:"C"C3CE2DE"F"|F2C2F3F|"C"EE2EC2DE|"G7"D6z
w:1.~A lov-er sings of his own true love, a sail -or sings of the sea,
w:2.~|Hear the call of the mid-night train,_ Ech-o-ing down in the mine,
w:4.~|My two hands they're my take home pay, They're how_ much milk at my door,
D|"C"C3CE2DE|"F"F3CF4|"C"G2GGG2(FE)|
w:|What have I to be sing-ing of but of my on-ly_
w:The hiss of~the steel and the grind of~the crane, The rum-ble of an as-
w:|How~man-y pounds may my child-ren weigh, How did you fig-ure the
"G7"F2E2D3F|"C"E2DC"G7"D2CB,|[1"C"C6z2:|2,4"C"C6zC|"Am"A,3A,E2DE|
w:pro-per-ty, I'll sing you a song of my hands.
w:sem-bly line,* That is the song of my ||hands. I'll tell you why of my
w:price be-fore, Oh what will you pay for my ||hands. My hands are~for sale, |
Q:1/4=90
"Dm"F3DF3F|"Am"E3EE2DC|"E7"(B,C)B,2"Am"A,3
w:hands I sing, My child-ren eat what my hands_ can bring.
w:What~will you give, |What will you give that child-ren might live.
Q:1/4=100
A,|"Am"A,3A,E2DE|"Dm"F3DF2FF|"Am"E3EE2DC|"E7"B,6z
w:3.~When towers of steel rose from bar-ren plains, Did you see my hands work-in' there,
w:5.~|What~is the val-ue of my two hands, Ap-praise them as you've done be-fore,
B,|"Am"A,3A,EE2E|"Dm"F3DF2FF|"C"G2GGG2FE|
w:a-mid your fact'-ries, your trucks and cranes we laid\
w:stone up-on stone up-on
w:They've built your fact'-ries they've tilled your lands,\
w:* They've made you * rich-es and
"F"F2EF"G7"D2FF|"C"E2DC"G7"D2CB,|[3"C"C6z2:|5"C"C6z2|
w:stone in the air and on top of the job were my hands.
w:they'll make * more, * Oh what will you pay for my ||hands.
Q:1/4=90
"Am"A,3A,A,E3|EEz2"Dm"F2>F2|D2F3zFF|"Am"E3EE2DC|
w:Calc-u-late care-ful-ly, pon-der it well and re-mem-ber this when you
"E7"B,6z2|"Am"A,3A,E2DE|"Dm"F3DF3F|"C"G2GGG2FE|
w:do, My two hands they are mine to sell,\
w:They built your mach-ines they can
"F"F3E"G7"D3z|"C"E2DC"G7"D2CB,|"C"C6z2|"C"C3CE2DE"F"|
w:stop them too, That is the power of my hands. My two hands they are
Q:1/4=76
F2C2F3G|"C"G3G"F"A2AA|"C"G6zA|"Am"A3EE3G|
w:might-y hands, They're strong, they're brave and they're free,\
w:In all the world there's
"Dm"(G3D)D3D|"Am"E2FE "E7"(DC) B,2|"Am"A,6zA,|"Am"A,3A,A,E3|
w:no_ man can bind them in sla_ve-ry. My hands are for sale,
"Dm"F3FDF4|"Am"E3E/E/E3D|C2"E7"B,2C2B,2|"Am"A,6z2|]
w:What will you give, What will you give that my child-ren might live.