The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #10638 Message #3779589
Posted By: leeneia
18-Mar-16 - 10:38 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Long Time Ago/Hoosen Johnny/Sam Houston
Subject: RE: Origin: Long Time Ago/Hoosen Johnny/Sam Houston
Back to 'Long Time Ago'
Thanks to dear Que's info that the composer was Charles E. Horn, I found the original easily on the Lester Levy site. Basically it consists of 16 measures, and I so I decided to make a MIDI of it. The note lengths are complex.
The real name of it is 'Near the Lake where Droops the Willow'.
It was registered in New York in 1839, so it is safely in the public domain, Aaron Copeland or no. It was in Bb, so I moved it to C. It's pretty high, but it would make a great flute tune. Probably would be nice on a concertina, too.
I'll send it to Joe for posting.
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I have found that when Joe posts my MIDI's, my computer won't play them using Google Chrome. But when I brush the cobwebs off Internet Explorer and use it as my browser, they do play. You may have to do the same.