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- It is easy to change this song's tempo and key. If you want to contribute useful alternatives, leave a message at User talk:Guy vandegrift.
- More lyrics are available at irish-folk-songs.com, Wikipedia, and dazwatsonmusic.weebly.com
Children's version: Ant and Grasshopper
[edit | edit source]I picked this old folksong because Cocomelon has a copyrighted variation called "The Ant and the Grasshoper". The lyrics can be found online at: babyrhymes.com, medium.com, or lyricshost.com,Mylyrics4free.com
G major
[edit | edit source]![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c c % \transpose c c is default
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
r2 r4 d8 g8 %1
b4 b8 b8 b4 a8 b8 %2
a4 g2. %3
b4 g8 b d4 c8 b %4
a2. d8 c %5
b4 b8 a g4 a8 b %6
d4 c4 ~c4 e,8 e8 %7
d4 fs8 g8 a4 b8 a %8
g1 %9
} \addlyrics{
From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing.
We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine,
That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while.
}
\new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords
g,2 g, %1
g d:7 %2
g, g, %3
g g:7 %4
d:7 c %5
g g:7 %6
c c %7
d:7 g %8
c g %9
}
}>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/e/y/eyz42r3g5u3pb36q7ftbfda73atpndo/eyz42r3g.png)
Warmup
[edit | edit source]Most of us need to work on our voice and intonation.
![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c c % \transpose c c is default
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
d2 d' d, e fs g a b c d d b a g fs e d
}
>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/h/0/h0d1qglqelrodzxa66nu80xzwkcsris/h0d1qglq.png)
Chords only
[edit | edit source]This can be your "band" after you learn the song!
![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c c % \transpose c c is default
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c,,{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef subbass \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
r1 r r r r r r r r
} \addlyrics{
From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing.
We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine,
That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while.
}
\new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords
g,2 g, %1
g d:7 %2
g, g, %3
g g:7 %4
d:7 c %5
g g:7 %6
c c %7
d:7 g %8
c g %9
}
}>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/8/d/8dttfi7y74thkf9il0xzjimk6k1eg9d/8dttfi7y.png)
C major
[edit | edit source]This version might better suite your pitch range. If you need it in another key leave a message at User talk:Guy vandegrift
![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c f
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
r2 r4 d8 g8 %1
b4 b8 b8 b4 a8 b8 %2
a4 g2. %3
b4 g8 b d4 c8 b %4
a2. d8 c %5
b4 b8 a g4 a8 b %6
d4 c4 ~c4 e,8 e8 %7
d4 fs8 g8 a4 b8 a %8
g1 %9
} \addlyrics{
From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing.
We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine,
That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while.
}
\new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords
g,2 g, %1
g d:7 %2
g, g, %3
g g:7 %4
d:7 c %5
g g:7 %6
c c %7
d:7 g %8
c g %9
}
}>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/0/o/0o8p2ex17vec1rs7crs2wnihhwgdmab/0o8p2ex1.png)
Warmup
[edit | edit source]Most of us need to work on our voice and intonation.
![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c f
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c'{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef treble \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
d2 d' d, e fs g a b c d d b a g fs e d
}
>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/q/c/qc4o2u6nod9xek6nzcvqy3xrxjop8pt/qc4o2u6n.png)
Chords only
[edit | edit source]![{\language "english" \new PianoStaff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\transpose c f
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
<< \new Staff\relative c,,{\set Staff.midiInstrument= #"reed organ" \clef subbass \key g \major
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Other instruments: #"reed organ" | #"lead 2" %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\time 4/4 \tempo 4=80
% Notes
r1 r r r r r r r r
} \addlyrics{
From this val -- ley they say you are go -- ing.
We will_miss your_bright eyes and sweet smile,
For they say you are ta -- king the sun -- shine,
That has bright -- ened our path -- way a while.
}
\new ChordNames {\chordmode {\clef bass % Chords
g,2 g, %1
g d:7 %2
g, g, %3
g g:7 %4
d:7 c %5
g g:7 %6
c c %7
d:7 g %8
c g %9
}
}>>}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/b/e/be8xrh8u12g4w0xpztl047964wv700t/be8xrh8u.png)