The Ash Grove

X: 131
T: The Ash Grove
O: Welsh
%R: air, waltz
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: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: Ab
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E2 | A2 c2 (dc) | c2 A2 A2 | B2 (dc) (BA) | G2 E2 E2 | A2 (cB) (AG) |
w: 1.~The Ash grove, how* grace-ful, how plain-ly* 'tis* speak-ing, The wind thro'* it*
w:    When o-ver its* branch-es the sun-light* is* break-ing, a host of* kind*
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F2 D2 F2 | E2 A2 G2 | A4 :| (cd) | e2 (cd) (ef) | e2 d2 c2 | d2 (Bc) (de) |
w: play-ing has lan-guage for me. | | | | |
w: fa-ces are gaz-ing on me. The* friends of* my* child-hood a-gain are* be-*
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d2 c2 B2 | c2 (AB) (cd) | c2 B2 A2 | G2 e2 =d2 | e4 E2 | A2 c2 (ed) |
w: fore me, Fond mem-o-*ries* wa-ken as free-ly I roam; With soft whis-pers*
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c2 A2 A2 | B2 (dc) (BA) | G2 E2 E2 | A2 (dc) (AG) | F2 D2 F2 | E2 A2 G2 | A4 |]
w: la-den its leaves rus-*tle* o'er me, The Ash grove,* the* Ash grove that shelt-ered my home.
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/EverydaySongBook/EverydaySongBook1/0269