Oh! Dear, What Can the Matter Be?

X: 84
T: Oh! Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
O: English
Q: "Fast."
%R: air, waltz, jig
B: "The Everyday Song Book", 1927
F: http://www.library.pitt.edu/happybirthday/pdf/The_Everyday_Song_Book.pdf
Z: 2017 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: Eb
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"^:S:"[| !mf!B2 z B2 z | B G e B G E | A2 z A2 z | A F G A G F |
w: Oh! dar, what can the mat-ter be? Dear! dear! what can the mat-ter be?
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B2 z B2 z | B G e B G E | C E A G A F | E3- !fine!E2 |]
w: Oh! dear, what can the mat-ter be? John-ny's so long at the fair.*
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B | B G A B G A | B G e B G E | A F G 
w: 1.~He prom-ised he'd buy me a fair-ing should please me, And would-n't tell
w: 2.~He prom-ised he'd bring me a bas-ket of po-sies,      A gar-land of
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A F G | A F G A G F | B G A B G A |
w: what, just on pur-pose to tease me, He prom-is'd he'd bring me a
w: lil-ies, a gar-land of ro-ses,      A lit-tle straw hat, to set
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B G e B G E | C E A G A F | E3- E "^D. S."G "^:S:"A |]
w: bunch of blue rib-bons, To tie up my bon-ny brown hair._   And it's
w: off the blue rib-bons   That tie up my bon-ny brown hair._ And it's
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook1/0172
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook2/0172

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