140 Folk-songs with Piano AccompanimentArchibald Thompson Davison, Thomas Whitney Surette |
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baby bells birds Bohemian Folk-song bright Concord Series dance English Folk-song English Melody ev'ry Fast mf German Folk-song Voices girofla gold HARBOUR Slowly Heigh-ho HOMER H JOHN ERWIN L'amour m'y compt'ra la la la lal lal lal light Melody Voices mer-ry mf 9 mf mf mf mp mf poco rit moderate time mp morn moun-tain pine mp English mp German Folk-song mp mf mp mp mp Old mp Voices NATHAN HASKELL DOLE night numbers o'er Old French Song petit Piano mf pont d'Avignon pretty pretty maid RICHARD COMPTON round sabots sail Santa Claus says Roley shines ships Sing a song sleep Slowly mp Slowly P Voices snow star STEPHEN FOSTER SURETTE sweet swinging rhythm mf tain tempo the_ thee Thou thro trees Tremp Willy winds
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Page 46 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 139 - Wherever he may guide me, No want shall turn me back ; My Shepherd is beside me, And nothing can I lack. His wisdom ever waketh, His sight is never dim, He knows the way he taketh, And I will walk with him.
Page 5 - Boy and the Sheep * Lazy sheep, pray tell me why In the pleasant field you lie, Eating grass and daisies white, From the morning till the night: Everything can something do; But what kind of use are you...
Page 65 - You're kindly welcome, sir," she said. "What is your father, my pretty maid?" "My father's a farmer, sir," she said. "Say, will you marry me, my pretty maid ?" "Yes, if you please, kind sir," she said. "What is your fortune, my pretty maid ?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said. "Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid!
Page 89 - Yea, Lord, we greet Thee. Born this happy morning ; Jesus, to Thee be glory given ; Word of the Father, Now in flesh appearing ; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, 0 come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.
Page 90 - And by the light of that same star Three Wise Men came from country far, To seek for a King was their intent, And to follow the star wherever it went. This Star drew nigh to the North-West, O'er Bethlehem it took its rest, And there it did both stop and stay, Right over the place where Jesus lay.
Page 94 - On conserve encor le portrait De ce digne et bon prince ; C'est l'enseigne d'un cabaret Fameux dans la province. Les jours de fête, bien souvent, La foule s'écrie en buvant Devant : Oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! ah ! ah ! ah ! ah ! Quel bon petit roi c'était là ! La, la.
Page 141 - In his master's steps he trod Where the snow lay dinted; Heat was in the very sod Which the Saint had printed. Therefore Christian men be sure, Wealth or rank possessing, Ye who now will bless the poor Shall yourselves find blessing.
Page 30 - Was in them then, was in them then? And what do you think was in them then, On New Year's Day in the morning?