Okay, okay. I guess it's about time that I did some work around here, and I do mean work. I think this ABC file has all the melody and chords in the same order as the lyrics above. Someone please learn this song and come back and offer suggestions on the notation.

This song is not performed in a strictly regular fashion. There should be crescendos and decrescendos, birds eyes, ritards, dramatic pauses, etc. Just imagine Paul Robeson singing it and use that as a guide.

This is perhaps the most powerful song I've ever heard and well worth the trouble to learn.

      - Mark

T:Song Of My Hands
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:100
C:Composer unknown to me
S:Source: Dwight Saunders, Des Moines, IA - 1961
K:C
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% Output from ABC2Win Version 2.1 i on 1/19/2001