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Lyr/Chords Add: McFadden's Trotting Mare

15 Aug 02 - 01:15 PM (#765950)
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: McFADDEN'S TROTTING MARE
From: MMario

X:1 T:McFadden's Trotting Mare
C:Phil Rossiter/H. Forrest Smith, Jr. - 1885
N:Levy box 29 item 094
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M:2/4
L:1/16
K:C
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McFADDEN'S TROTTING MARE
(Phil Rossiter/H. forrest Smith, Jr. - 1885)
Levy box 28 item 094


Mc-Fad-den was a sport-ing man,
a horse was his de-light,
He kept a sta-ble full of nags,
And watch'd them day and night;
But he had one that boss'd the track
from don-e-gal to Clare,
And far and near the sports held dear,
Mc-Fad-den's trot-ting mare.

The mare was blind in both her eyes,
her nose was off the track
they gave her cab-bage leaves to eat
her drink was ap-ple-jack
she went like thun-der when she liked
those times were might-y rare,
she was so stick, and few could lick
Mc-fad-den's trot-ting mare.

She trot-ted once with Jay Eye See
and Eye See prov'd a Jay,
she ran a tie with great Maud S
and won the prize next day:
So if you vis-it ra-ces,
and have an-y cash to spare
When on the track be sure you back
Mc-Fad-den's trot-ting mare!

chorus:

16 Aug 02 - 01:29 AM (#766293)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: McFADDEN'S TROTTING MARE
From: masato sakurai

The sheet music is HERE.

Title: McFadden's Trotting Mare. A Fast Ditty.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Phil Rossiter. Music by H. Forest Smith, Jr.
H. Forest Smith, Jr. Publication: Cincinnati: Geo. D. Newhall Co., 56 W. Fourth St., 1885.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: McFadden was a sporting man, a horse was his delight
First Line of Chorus: The mare was blind in both her eyes, her nose was off the track
Performer: Sung by the Kernells
Dedicatee: Dedicated to the Kernells
Plate Number: 628-3
Subject: Horse racing
Subject: Jockeys
Subject: Accidents
Subject: Gambling
Call No.: Box: 028 Item: 094

The music is also at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (American Memory, Library of Congress).

~Masato

16 Aug 02 - 08:19 AM (#766383)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: McFADDEN'S TROTTING MARE
From: MMario

Thanks Masato (I really should put the links in myself. Bad MMario!)