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Thread #79968 Message #1454206
Posted By: Joe Offer
07-Apr-05 - 05:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Papal Hymn / Long Live the Pope
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Long Live the Pope
OK, so here's the MIDI transcribed from a 1960's reprint of the 1920/1941 St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book. Mind you, I have never heard this song sung in a Catholic church or institution. If it were to be sung at the seminary I attended in the 1960's, it would have been greeted with catcalls and ridicule. It really is a corny song. Maybe people did sing it during the first half of the 20th century, but not very often since 1950, I'll bet.
I tried to find "God Bless Our Pope," but didn't have any luck. This page (click) is supposed to have MIDI files for both songs, but I couldn't get through. Maybe it's really popular, now that the Pope's dead and all.
-Joe Offer-