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Thread #2733   Message #11770
Posted By: Bruce
03-Sep-97 - 07:09 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Night before Larry Was Stretched
Subject: RE: The Stretching of Larry
It appears I misremembered the source of my copy. I can't find a transcript among copies of songs I made from Festival of Anacreon, 1789. My copy of the song is probably from one that I have in The Universal Songster, III, p. 140, 1828. The latter copy attributes the song to a 'Curren' but has no tune direction.
I have done only 3 simple tunes so far in ASCII in ABC format, which apparently uses the SOUND command in BASIC for playing them, and I'm not very proficient at it yet. I have the tune "To the hundreds of Drury I write" it in a different ASCII format for use in the BASIC PLAY command. The tune is in John Barry Talley's Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis, p. 82, 1988.
I don't know what Jon means by 'paste' to thread.