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What's the Life of a Man

Found in melnets_big_abc_file.abc from the John Chambers abc collection

X:15388
T:What's the Life of a Man
S:Digital Tradition, lifeman
D:Sung for Bob Beers at Fox Hollow
Z:dt:lifeman
M:6/8
L:1/8
Q:3/8=100
W:As I was a walking one morning at ease
W:A viewing the leaves as they fell from the trees
W:All in slow motion appearing to be
W:And those that had withered, they fell from the trees
W:
W:What's the life of a man anymore than the leaves
W:A man has his season, so why should we grieve
W:Though all thru this life, we appear fine and gay
W:Like the leaves we will wither and soon fade away
W:
W:If you'd seen the leaves just a few days ago
W:So beautiful and bright they all seemed to grow
W:A frost came upon them and withered them all
W:A storm came upon them and down they did fall
W:
W:If you look in the churchyard, there you will see
W:Those that have passed like the leaves from the trees
W:When age and affliction upon us do fall
W:Like the leaves we must wither and down we must fall
K:G
D2D|G3 G2A|G3 B,2C|D3 D2E|D4-DD|\
A3 A2B|c3 B2A|G3 G2A|B4-BB|
d3 d2e|d3 B2A|G3 A2G|E3 G2E|\
D3 G2G|GB4G|A3 G2F|G3||

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