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Thread #159243 Message #3773667
Posted By: Jack Campin
18-Feb-16 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: The trees they do grow high: medieval?
Subject: RE: The trees they do grow high: medieval?
This is the way I remember the descending tune (title from the first line, this is the last verse):
X:1
T:Father dear father you've done to me great wrong
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:EMin
z | e2e e2e |d3 (dc)B|A2c B2 A|E3- E
w:At the age of six-teen* he was a marr-ied man
(EF)| G2G G2A |B2B (BA)G|A2B (AG)F|E3- E2
w:and* at the age of sev-en-teen* the fath-er of* a son
z | e3 e2e |d3 dcB |A2c B2 A|E3- E
w:At the age of eight-een the grass grew ov-er him
z2 | E2F G2A |G2F E3 |D2D HE3 |B3- B2||
w:and* death* put an end to his grow-ing.
z | e3 e3 |d3 (dc)B|A2c B2 A|E3- E
w:Grow-ing, grow-ing,* the grass grew ov-er him
z2 |(E2F) (G2A)|G2F E3 |D2D HE3 |B3- B2|]
w:and* death* put an end to his grow-ing.