Here's an ABC transcription of the tune from the LoC sheet music Jim Dixon linked to above. You can plug it into one of the online ABC-to-MIDI converters (such as Concertina.net's Tune-o-Tron: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html).

To avoid problems with various ABC programs, I have not broken sections in the middle of bars, where the divisions actually fall, and I haven't used voices to distinguished the vocal line from the piano breaks. (I now notice I omitted the piano intro, but what the hell.) I've copied out each verse individually to show the capricious syncopation variations in the sheet music.


X:1
T:In the Days We Went Gipsying
% Melody only, including instrumental breaks
C:Melody by J.N. Sporle. Arranged by Joseph Philip Knight.
N:No lyrics credit. Published by Davis & Horn, 411 Broadway, New York.
N:Copyright 1839 by Davis & Horn.
Z:Transcribed by Artful Codger, from sheet music at the Library of Congress
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100 "Moderato con anima"
K:C
% Verse 1
G> G| c> c c> c|d> c B> A | G2 F> G | E3 D |
C> D E< F | G> A B> c | d> c A> B | G3 G |
A> ^G A> B | c> G G> G | F> G E> F | D3 G |
c> c c c | c< c c> A | G< c e> d | c3 G |
% Chorus
G> F E> F | A< G G G | A> B c d | HB2 G> G |
c> c c c | c> c c G | c2 c> d | e2 e> e |
f> e d d | e> c c A | G2 He> d | c2 g2 |
% Break
g>fe>f | a>gg>g | a>bc'>d' | e'2e'>e' |
f'>e'd'>d' | e'>bc'>a | g2 e'>d' | c'2 G2 |
%
% Verse 2
c> c c> c|d> c B A | G A F> G | E3 D |
C> D E F | G A B> c | d c A> B | G3 G |
A> ^G A B | c< G G G | F> G E> F | D3 G |
c> c c c | c c c> A | G< c e> d | c3 G |
% Chorus
G> F E> F | A< G G G | A> B c d | HB2 G> G |
c> c c c | c> c c c | c2 c> d | e2 e> e |
f> e d d | e> c c A | G2 He> d | c2 g2 |
% Break
g>fe>f | a>gg>g | a>bc'>d' | e'2e'>e' |
f'>e'd'>d' | e'>bc'>a | g2 e'>d' | c'2 G2 |
%
% Verse 3
c> c c> c|d c B> A | G A F> G | E3 D |
C D E< F | G< A B c | d/> d/ c A< B | G3 G |
A> ^G A B | c G G G | F G E> F | D3 G |
c> c c c | c c c> A | G> c e< d | c3 G |
% Chorus
G> F E> F | A< G G G | A> B c d | HB2 G> G |
c> c c c | c> c c G | c2 c> d | e2 e> e |
f> e d d | e> c c A | G2 He> d | c2 g2 |
% Break
g>fe>f | a>gg>g | a>bc'>d' | e'2e'>e' |
f'>e'd'>d' | e'>bc'>a | g2 e'>d' | c'2 z2 |]

% Include the blank line above, which marks the end of the tune.

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