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Thread #123455   Message #34949
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Aug-98 - 08:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Quite Early Morning (Pete Seeger)
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: QUITE EARLY MORNING (Pete Seeger)
QUITE EARLY MORNING
Words and Music by Pete Seeger, 1969
©Copyright 1969, by Fall River Music, Inc.

Don't you know it's darkest before the dawn
And it's this thought keeps me moving on
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning
If we could heed these early warnings
The time is now quite early morning

Some say that humankind won't long endure
But what makes them so doggone sure?
I know that you who hear my singing
Could make those freedom bells go ringing.
I know that you who hear my singing
Could make those freedom bells go ringing.

And so we keep on while we live
Until we have no, no more to give
And when these fingers can strum no longer
Hand the old banjo to young ones stronger.
And when these fingers can strum no longer
Hand the old banjo to young ones stronger.

So though it's darkest before the dawn
These thoughts keep us moving on.
Through all this world of joy and sorrow
We still can have singing tomorrow.
Through all this world of joy and sorrow
We still can have singing tomorrow.

MIDI file: QUITEE~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: Quite Early Morning
Text: By Pete Seeger
Copyright: Copyright © 1969 by Fall River Music, Inc.
Tempo: 160 (375000 microsec/crotchet)
Key: G
TimeSig: 2/2 24 8
Start
0000 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0240 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0094 0 67 000 0002 1 71 110 0816 0 71 000 0240 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 62 110 0094 0 62 000 0002 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0048 1 69 110 0336 0 69 000 0240 1 71 110 0096 0 71 000 0000 1 69 110 0256 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 71 110 0720 0 71 000 0240 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0528 0 67 000 0432 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 64 110 0336 0 64 000 0048 1 62 110 0336 0 62 000 0240 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 72 110 0160 0 72 000 0032 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0528 0 69 000 0336 1 62 110 0256 0 62 000 0032 1 67 110 0256 0 67 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 71 110 0256 0 71 000 0416 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0336 0 67 000 0624 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 64 110 0160 0 64 000 0032 1 62 110 0576 0 62 000 0000 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 62 110 0160 0 62 000 0032 1 72 110 0160 0 72 000 0032 1 71 110 0160 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0928 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0160 0 67 000 0032 1 71 110 0256 0 71 000 0032 1 69 110 0094 0 69 000 0002 1 69 110 0160 0 69 000 0032 1 67 110 0528 0 67 000
End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

X:1
T:Quite Early Morning
M:2/2
Q:1/4=160
K:G
DDE2G2A2|-A2A6|B2A2GB3|-B8|D8|-DDE2G2A2|-A2A6|
BA3G2B2|-B8|B8|-B2B2A2G2|-G8|A8|-A2G2E2E2|
-E2D6|D2c2B2A2|-A7D|-D2G3AAB|-B6B2|B2A2G4|
-G6A2|G2E2E2D2|-D4D2D2|c2B2A4|-A6G2|B3AA2G2|
-G7/2||



I hope you're taking the tune from the MIDI on these MIDITXT tunes. The ABC is just an approximation, and doesn't do very well when there are ties and rests - this song has a lot of both.