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I Cannot Sing the Old Songs

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I CANNOT SING THE OLD SONGS — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Beginner
BARS: 21
SECTIONS: 3
TEMPO: ♩ = 60
MELODY NOTES: 69
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

I Cannot Sing the Old Songs (1868). Public domain. Encoded mechanically from the public-domain Mutopia Project edition. Typeset by Stan Sanderson. Edition source: Not known. The melody is the top line of the edition's first staff as printed; the accompaniment is a simplified one-chord-per-bar reduction of the edition’s second staff.

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