This is an important song for us here in Sacramento, since it's the best known song from the only musical ever to have been set in Sacramento. Therefore, it gets me really ticked off when people sing it wrong. The first couplet stays down, and it's the second couplet where the tune goes up. So, here's the tune. Maybe we can talk Dick into including it in the database so people might possibly learn to sing it right and give Sacramento the respect it deserves.
-Joe Offer-

MIDI file: THEYCA~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA
Text: By Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Copyright: Copyright © 1951 by Lerner & Loewe
Key: F
TimeSig: 2/2 24 8
Start
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End

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ABC format (not correct - maybe MIDITXT doesn't read sharps):

X:1
T:They Call the Wind Maria
M:2/2
Q:1/4=120
K:F
CF2A2A3|_AA2F2F3|CF2A2A2_A|-_AA2F5|CF2A2A3|
_AA2c2c2A|cd2c2A2G|-GA2A5|-A8|C8|-CF2A2A3|
_AA2F2F3|CF2A2A2_A|-_AA2c5|cd2A2A3|dc2A2A3|
cd2c2A2G|-GA2F5|-F8|c8|-cd2A5|-A8|d8|-dc2A5|
-A8|c8|-cd4c3|-cA4G3|-GA2A5|-A5/2||