Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

OH, BOYS, CARRY ME 'LONG!

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MASSA'S IN THE COLD, COLD GROUND. This also is one of Foster's " Plantation Melodies," set to one of his characteristically plaintive melodies. It was written in 1852.

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1.  Round de mead-ows am a ring 2.   When de au-tumn leaves are fall 3.    Mas - sa make de dark-eys love

ing, De dark-ey's mourn - ful song, ing,          When de days are cold, him,          Cayse he was          so kind,

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