How Luckless the Fortune

X:7263
T:How Luckless the Fortune
S:Digital Tradition, luckfort
B:From Songs from the American Revolution, Keller
B:Collected from the notebooks of Captain George Bush (no relation), 1779
O:America
Z:dt:luckfort
M:4/4
L:1/8
Q:2/4=100
W:How luckless the fortune we soldiers endure
W:Uncertain our pleasures, mischances are sure.
W:If friends    should bind us, or loves softer tie
W:The drum beats; from friends    and love we must fly.
W:
W:Submissive to fate, then adieu to the fair.
W:Peace, smile on our friends, and redeem them from care.
W:May angels indulgent detach'd from above
W:Soon vanquish fell discord with friends and love,
K:C
E2|A4 B2^G2|A4 B2c2|d4 c2B2|c6B2|\
c4 f2e2|d2-c2 B2A2|A4 ^G2A2|B6c2|
c4 e2g2|d4 c2B2|c2-A2 B2c2|^G6B2|\
c2-B2 d2c2|f2-e2 d2c2|B2-A2 B2^G2|A6||

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• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/konzertina.org/How_Luckless_the_Fortune/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/05772
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/h/0624

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