The Mel Bay Publications website says "Date Published: 1/1/1983" too, so Amazon may have got the date from that. But the actual music sheet says "©Copyright 1983 by Swinging Door Music / This arrangement ©Copyright 1992 by Swinging Door Music" And the Mel Bay publication comprises not only the Ashokan Farewell sheet music but also the Civil War era "Sullivan Ballou Letter" and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I can't believe that this combination would have been offered for sale seven years before the Civil War TV documentation.
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