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X:1     %Music
T:The Stately Southerner
B:Alan Lomax, The Penguin Book of American Folk Songs, Penguin, 1964
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:6/8     %Meter
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K:C
C |C2 E G2 E |F2 F A2 C |CA,B, C2 C | D3-D2
w:It was the State-ly Sou-ther-ner that carr-ed the Stripes and Stars,_
G |(G^F)G G2 A |D2 E F2 G |A2 A B2 A | G3-G2
w: The whist--ling wind from west-nor'-west blew through her pitch-pine spars,_
G/G/ |G^FG c2 c |E2 E F2 G |A2 A B2 A | G3-G2
w: With her star--board tacks a-board, my boys, she hung up to the gale,_
G/G/ |F2 E G2 E |(FE)F A2 C/C/ |(CA,)B, C2 C | C3-C2z |]
w:'Twas an au-tumn night we raised_ the light on the Head_ of old Kin-sale._ 
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