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Thread #59483 Message #962664
Posted By: GUEST,James H. Silver
31-May-03 - 07:58 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: If Those Lips Could Only Speak
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: IF THOSE LIPS COULD ONLY SPEAK
can anyone with a good musical knowledge clean up these abc's and assign the proper note values and measures to them so that they will play smoothly in 3/4 time for the following lyrics: This is the best version I have come up with too date. Seems to be quite accurate, but I am unable to get it to write so that it plays smoothly in 3/4 time
T:IF THOSE LIPS COULD ONLY SPEAK M:3/4 L:1/4 Q:60 R:WALTZ Z:BRIAN TIPERT K:D d e f2 f g b a4 def3 f a ^g =g4| e f g g g g f e g c3 a a a b a g f4|! def3 f g b a4 def3 f f a ^g =g4|! e f g g g g f e g c3 a a a b a g f e d4||! d e f f f g a b a f3 f a a a a g f g4 |! e f g g g g f e g c2 a a a b a g f4| ! d e f f f g a b a f f a a a a g f g4| ! e f g f e g f e g c2 a a a b a3 c d4|
% ABC2Win Version 2.1 5/31/2003
IF THOSE LIPS COULD ONLY SPEAK
Chorus If those lips could only speak,if those eyes could only see It those beautiful golden tresses,were here in reality Could I only take your hand,as I did when you took my name But it's only a beautiful picture,in a beautiful golden frame
He stood in a beautiful mansion Surrounded by riches untold As he gazed at a beautiful picture That hung in a frame of gold Was a picture of a lady So beautiful young and fair To this beautiful lifelike picture He murmured in sad despair
Repeat Chorus
He stood there and gazed on that picture And slumbering forgetting all pain For there in that mansion of fancy She stood by his side again His lips then softly murmured The name of his once sweet bride With his eye fixed on that picture He awoke from his sleep and he cried