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OSCAR'S GHOST

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OSCAR'S GHOST - staff notation
X: 129
T: OSCAR'S GHOST
O: 1811
B: "Caledonian Musical Repository", 1811, p.79-80
F: http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-music/pageturner.cfm?id=87686121
Z: 2013 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: G
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D | {D}E> G G3 G | {G}E> G G3 G |
w: O see that form that faint-ly gleams! 'Tis
{G}A> B {B}e2 d2 | {e}d> c {c}B3 d |
w: Os-car come to cheer my dreams: On
d (B/c/) {d}e2 B2 | A> G {D}E2 (BA) | {A}G F TE2 D2 |
w: wings of* wind he flies a-way; O* stay, my love-ly
E (B/A/) G3 :|
w: Os-car,* stay.
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W:2.Wake, Ossian, last of Fingal's line,
W:  And mix thy sighs and tears with mine,
W:  Awake the harp to doleful lays,
W:  And soothe my soul with Oscar's praise.
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W:
W:3.The shell is ceas'd in Oscar's hall,
W:  Since gloomy Cairbar wrought his fall;
W:  The roe on Morven lightly bounds,
W:  Nor hears the cry of Oscar's hounds.
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