SONG · BEGINNER PUBLIC DOMAIN

This Old Man

Traditional · also known as Knick-Knack Paddywhack

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0:00 0:17 · ♩ = 112

THIS OLD MAN — MELODY + ACCOMPANIMENT Engraved with Verovio (verovio.org)

DIFFICULTY: Beginner
BARS: 8
SECTIONS: 1
TEMPO: ♩ = 112
MELODY NOTES: 32
PARTS: Melody + chords

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Traditional children's song. Public domain. Melody encoded from the Digital Tradition folk-song archive's ABC transcription (via the yetist/music-score mirror of that archive); Frank Nordberg's independent Musica Viva transcription of the same tune is note-for-note identical to it.

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