Right, the sheet music I bought has been delivered,
someone took really good care of it for a long time
because the copyright date
goes back to 1951!
Chappell, of course, which is the publisher
for At the Drop of a Hat.


My suspicions are borne out by the sheet music:
the lyric in the score
is the same that
Donald Swann and others have recorded,

which is to say,
a slightly different lyric
than Mudcat's DigiTrad song file.

Perhaps a future post to this thread
ought to spell out, exactly,
the copyrighted Chappell lyric from the score,
in order to demonstrate
how the two song lyrics are similar
as well as how they differ.