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Song Name: All Quiet Along The Potomac Tonight-12 By: Ethyl Lynn Beers, John H. Hewitt
Posted By: WaltP Difficulty: Any
Key: G Genre: Folk
Harp Type: Diatonic
Created: 2011-07-28 21:07:54 Modified: 0000-00-00 00:00:00


Song:

ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TONIGHT 12th pos

W: Ethyl Lynn Beers

M: John H. Hewitt

Key: G

Time: 6/8

Harp: D

 

 1   1  1  1  1   -1  1  1  -2” -3” -2”

All qui-et a-long the Po-to-mac to-night

-2” 3    2    1    1  -1   2    3   -2”

Ex-cept here and there a stray pick-et

1   1   1  1    1

Is shot as he walks

-1  1   1  -2” -3” -2”

on his beat to and fro

-2”-2”2 -3” -3” -2” -1 -3 -1   1

by a ri-fle-man hid in a thick-et

  1   3    3  3  3  -2”  2  -2”

‘Tis noth-ing a pri-vate or two

 3  -3”  1    1    1   -1

Now and then will not count

2  -2”  -2” 2  -2” -3”  2

In the news of the bat-tle

 1  1  -1 -1 -1   2

Not an of-fi-cer lost,

2  2  -2” 2  -3” -3’

On-ly one of the men

 -3” -3” -2” -2” -2”-3”

Moan-ing out all a-lone

-3”   2    2  -2”

The death rat-tle

 1   1  1  1  -2” -2” -2” 3  -3” 3  -2”

All qui-et a-long the Po-tom-ac to-night