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Thread #74551   Message #1303689
Posted By: Wolfgang
22-Oct-04 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Will You Miss Me
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Will you miss me when I'm gone?
From a xerox (don't know from which book) that gives the following information:

From the singing of Woody Guthrie...Folkways FA 2483 Copyright Stormking Music 1962

WILL YOU MISS ME?

When death'll close my eyelids
and my race on earth is run
will you miss me when I'm gone?

Ch: Will you miss me, will you miss me, miss me
Will you miss me when I'm gone
Will you miss me when I'm gone.

Come and set* yourself beside me
come and set beside my bed
Lay your hand upon my brow
while my achin' heart grows dead.

* I have J. McEvoy singing this version on a tape and he sings here 'sit'.

The tune McEvoy sings to the Guthrie lyrics is the same I hear at Masato's link.

Wolfgang