728. Sweet Long Ago
'Sweet Long Ago.' Sung by Miss Jewell Robbins, Pekin, Montgomery county, 1921. For another version cf. JAFL lix 466 (text and title).
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There's mys the gold shore Where thesurg - es er - more
Break in mu - sic the strand soft and low.-
I can hear the cease - less hymn, I can see the head-land dim
Of the gold shores of sweet long a - go-
Long ago, sweet long ago-
On the gold - en shores of sweet long a - go.-
Long A - go, sweet long a - go. —
On the gold - en shores of sweet long a - go.
Scale: Hexatonic (4), plagal. Tonal Center: g. Structure: abab1cbcb1 (4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4) = aa1bb1 (8,8,8,8).