Paddle Your Own Canoe
X:1 T:Paddle Your Own Canoe C:Written by Harry Clifton; music by Charles Coote, jr.; arranged by Martin Hobson. S:Sheet music published by W. R. Smith, Philadelphia. N:From the Lester S. Levy collection. Z:Artful Codger %%MIDI program 1 69 M:6/8 L:1/8 F:http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1247 Q:3/8=72 K:G D | B B d c2 {B}A | B B G E E F | G F G d2 B | w: I've travell'd a-bout a bit in my time And of trou-bles I've seen a A3-A2 D | B2 d c c A | B B G E2 G | w: few_ But found it bet-ter in ev'-_ry clime To D ^C D B2 A | G3-G2 G | A A A A ^G A | w: pad-dle my own ca-noe._ My wants_ are small,_ I d d d (d ^c) d | e e e ^c2 A | d3-d2 F | w: care not at all if my debts_ are paid when due._ I A A A A ^G A | d d d d ^c d | A B A (GF) E | (D3 Hd2) || w: drive a-way strife, in the o-cean of life While I pad-dle my own_ ca-noe._ % % Chorus. "^Chorus." =c | B2 d c2 A | B2 G E E D | w: Then love your neigh-bour as your-self, As the G F G d d B | A3-A2 D | B B d c c A | w: world you go tra-vel-ling through,_ And ne-ver sit down, with a B B G E2 G | D ^C D HB2 A | G3-G2 z |] w: tear or a frown, But pad-dle your own ca-noe._
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T:I’ll Paddle My Own Canoe
M:2/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Stephen Grier music manuscript collection (1883, Book 3, No. 233)
N:Grier (c. 1824-1894) was a fiddler and uilleann piper originally
N:from north Longford, but who moved around 1852 to Newpark,
N:Bohey, Gortletteragh, south Leitrim.
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