SONG · BEGINNER PUBLIC DOMAIN

If You're Happy and You Know It

Traditional · also known as Happy and You Know It

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0:00 0:24 · ♩ = 120

IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Beginner
BARS: 16
SECTIONS: 2
TEMPO: ♩ = 120
MELODY NOTES: 49
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Traditional children's song. Public domain. Melody encoded from the LilyPond score published in the Wikipedia article "If You're Happy and You Know It" — written there in C major under a transpose to F, and placed one octave up, in the library's usual melody range; the two hand-claps in each line are rests here. The tune is in 6/8, encoded here on a three-quarter-note bar grid.

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