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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