Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

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

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	138	OUR FAMILIAR SONGS.
	spent the remaining thirty-two years of his life in a position of trust with this sculptor; writing industriously in all his leisure hours. By English critics, he is said to have the best prose style ever attained north of the Tweed, and the Scotch rank him next to Hogg as a song-writer. He died in London, October 29, 1842. Scott said that " A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea," was " the best song going." The music is the famous French military air, Le petit tambour.