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|f_annotation='''DOWNHILL OF LIFE [2].'''  AKA - "In the downhill of life," “Tomorrow; or, The Happy Fellow.” English, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Downhill of Life" was written by English actor and poet John Collins (d. 1808) and published in newspapers around the year 1804.  It proved popular and appeared on broadsides and in songsters well into the nineteenth century.
|f_annotation='''DOWNHILL OF LIFE [2].'''  AKA - "In the downhill of life," “Tomorrow; or, The Happy Fellow.” English, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Downhill of Life" was written by English actor and poet [wikipedia:John Collins (poet)|] (1742-1808), of Birmingham, and published in newspapers around the year 1804.  It proved popular and appeared on broadsides and in songsters well into the nineteenth century.
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''In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining,''<br>
''In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining,''<br>

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DOWNHILL OF LIFE [2]. AKA - "In the downhill of life," “Tomorrow; or, The Happy Fellow.” English, Air (3/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "The Downhill of Life" was written by English actor and poet [wikipedia:John Collins (poet)


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Printed sources : - Edward Riley (Riley’s Flute Melodies vol. 1), New York, 1814; No. 202, p. 53.






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