On top of Old Smokey

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Song TitleOn top of Old Smokey (Search)
Composer(s):John Edmunds
Author(s):Traditional
Keyword(s) & Features: America; American; Appalachia; Appalachian Mountains; Boys; Courting; Darling; Decaying; Dust; False Love; False-hearted; Farewell; Feeding; Folk Song; Girls; Graves; Grief; Hay; Horses; Hunger; Losing; Lost Love; Loveless; Lovers; Old Smokey; Parting; Pleasure; Poor; Robbing; Slow; Snow; Sparking; Thieves; True Love; Trusting; Truth; Unrequited Love; Worse
First LineOn top of Old Smokey (Search)
Year of composition 1953 (Search) Circa
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=127896
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Score Source https://www.worldcat.org/title/folk-songs-american-english-irish/oclc/7201051&referer=brief_results
Difficulty LevelHS (Search)
Range: E4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF Major (Search)
Dedicated ToHenry Carmichael (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceR. D. Row Music Company, "John Edmunds: Folk Songs" (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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