Hmmm. It doesn't work at Yet Another Digital Tradition, either - but you'll find notation there.

Reinhard has a nice page on the song here (click) - but alas, no MIDI.

Well, come to think of it, the MIDI in the DT does work - it's just a bit slow on the tempo. Click here.

-Joe-

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And, for the sake of further discussion, here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry on this song:

King Takes the Queen, The

DESCRIPTION: "The King will take the Queen, But the Queen will take the knave, And since we're in good company, More liquor let us have. Here's to you, Tom Brown, and to you me jolly soul." As cards take cards, so each reminds the singer of a happy life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1839 (broadside, Bodleian Firth b.25(96))
KEYWORDS: drink cards nonballad game
FOUND IN: Britain(England(North,South),Scotland(Aber)) Ireland
REFERENCES (5 citations):
Kennedy 283, "Tam Broon" (1 text, 1 tune)
GreigDuncan3 571, "Tam Broon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kidson-Tunes, pp. 159-160, "The Card Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Tunney-StoneFiddle, pp. 64-66, "Tam Brown" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 232, "Tom Brown" (1 text)
Roud #884
BROADSIDES:
Bodleian, Firth b.25(96), "Tom Brown" ("The deuce take the cards, for they give me the gripes"), J. Catnach (London), 1813-1838
LOCSinging, sb40522a, "Tom Brown" ("The King will take the Queen"), H. De Marsan (New York), 1859-1860
ALTERNATE TITLES:
With All My Heart
The Card Song
The Cards
The Two Beats the One
NOTES: Tunney-StoneFiddle has the song in a Mummers' Play.
Broadside LOCSinging sb40522a: H. De Marsan dating per Studying Nineteenth-Century Popular Song by Paul Charosh in American Music, Winter 1997, Vol 15.4, Table 1, available at FindArticles site. - BS
Last updated in version 3.0
File: FSWB232

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Here are the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition:

THE CARD SONG

Ah the king will take the queen but the queen will take the knave
Well since we're all together boys more liquor shall we have.

Here's to you Tom Brown
Here's to you with all me heart
At least we'll have another glass
Before we have to part
Here's to you Tom Brown

Well the queen will take the knave but the knave will take the ten
Well since we're all together boys we'll deal them out again.

Well the knave will take the ten but the ten will take the nine
Well since we're all together boys and having a jovial time.

Well the ten will take the nine but the nine will take the eight
Well since we're all together boys let's make this a regular date.
Well the nine will take the eight but the eight will take the seven
Well here we are together boys and it sure feels like heaven.

Well the eight will take the seven but the seven will take the six
Well here we are together boys and up to our old tricks.

Well the seven will take the six but the six will take the five
We'll never stop our drinking boys as long as we're alive.

Well the six will take the five but the five will take the four
As long as we are drinking boys we'll never pass the door.

Well the five will take the four but the four will take the trey
We'll never stop our drinking boys until the break of day.

Well the four will take the trey but the trey will take the deuce
We'll never stop our drinking boys while we are on the loose.

Well the three will take the deuce but the ace will take them all
And since we're here together boys let's not go home at all.
The ace will take them all the ace will take the king
And now we're all together, boys we've just begun to sing.

Recorded by Fairport Convention on The Five Seasons
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Be sure to take a look at the information that Reinhard has collected at https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/cardplayingsong.html