I hope I never forget the beautiful story told in this Forum as to how Thomas Moore came to write 'Endearing Young Charms' - whoever did that yarn please take a bow?

I don't recall ever hearing 'The Meeting Of The Waters' actually sung, but here is the tune. I know that the original words are qhite haunting, and will only take a Thomas Moore fan a few minutes to find and post.

The North American version is in the DT, and has a repeated line in each stanza. To make Dick's life more interesting I will post the tune for that in a separate thread.

Regards
John

MIDI file: meeting.mid

Timebase: 192

Name: MEETING OF THE WATERS
Text: By Thomas Moore
Copyright: Sequenced 1999 by John J Leahy
Key: D
TimeSig: 3/4 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

X:1
T:Meeting Of The Waters
M:3/4
Q:1/4=120
K:D
AGF3E|D2D2B,2|A,2A,2B,2|C2D4|EFG2G2|FEF2D2|
F2A2F2|D2E4|EFG3G|-GFEE2F|-FD2A2F|-FD2E3|
-EDEF3|ED2D2B,|-B,A,2A,2B,|-B,D2G3|-GAGF2E|
-EE2D2B,|-B,A,2A,2B,|-B,D2D3|-D/2||

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