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Thread #187   Message #568781
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
10-Oct-01 - 03:33 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Farewell, My Bluebell? / Blue Bell
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: BLUE BELL (E Madden, T F Morse)
You can view, print and/or download sheet music at the Library of Congress site here.

Since the copyright is 1904, this couldn't have been a Civil War song, and it's too early for WWI. The uniform the soldier is wearing on the front cover looks like maybe Spanish American War? (I'm guessing, so don't hold me to that.)

Lin

________________________

BLUE BELL
By Edward Madden and Theodore F. Morse
Copyright 1904 by F.B. Haviland Publishing Co. Inc.

Blue Bell, the dawn is waking,
Sweetheart you must not sigh,
Blue Bell, my heart is breaking,
I've come to say goodbye,
Hear how the bugle's calling
Calling to each brave heart,
Sweetheart your tears are falling,
Blue Bell, we two must part.

Blue Bell, they are returning,
Each greets a sweetheart true,
Blue Bell, your heart is yearning,
Never a one greets you,
Sadly they tell the story,
Tell how he fought and fell
No tho't of fame or glory,
Only of his Blue Bell.

CHORUS: Goodbye my Blue Bell; Farewell to you.
One last fond look into your eyes so blue.
'Mid camp fires gleaming
'Mid shot and shell
I will be dreaming
Of my own Blue Bell.

_______________________

And here's the midi file:

MIDI file: BlueBell.MID

Timebase: 1024

TimeSig: 4/4 24 8
Key: Ab
Tempo: 096 (625000 microsec/crotchet)
Name: Grand Piano
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format:

X:1
T:Grand Piano
M:2/4
Q:1/4=96
K:Ab
A4G3F|G4E4|A8|E8|A4G3F|G4E4|A8|-A8|c8|-c4B3A|
B4c4|A8|A8|G4A3B|G4F4|E8|-E8|A8|-A4G3F|G4E4|
A8|E8|A4G3F|G4E4|A8|-A8|c8|-c4B3A|B4c4|A8|
A8|E2F4G2|F4E4|B8|-B8|c8|-c8|B8|-B4A4|A8|
G8|d8|c4=B4|c8|-c8|e8|-e8|d8|-d4c4|c4F4|G4A4|
c8|B8|B8|-B8|c8|-c8|B8|-B4A4|A8|G8|d8|c4=B4|
c8|-c8|e8|-e8|d8|-d4c4|B4F4|G4A4|c8|B8|A8|
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