OK, here's the tune to go with the 1840 text. There are other tunes at Levy, but I think that's enough.
-Joe Offer-

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MIDI file: BENBOL2.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: There's A Change in the Things I Love (Ben Bolt)

Text: By Joseph P. Webster, 1840

Key: A

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8

Start

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End

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ABC format:

X:1

T:There's A Change in the Things I Love (Ben Bolt)

M:4/4

Q:1/4=120

K:A

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