Tag: Remembrance of Friends Departed
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Oft in the Stilly Night (0018 of 1000)
In the same key as the accompanying sheet music, Bb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oft-in-the-Stilly-Night.mp3 In the key of Eb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Oft-in-the-Stilly-Night-Eb.mp3 Oft in the Stilly NightThomas Moore Verse 1 Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber’s chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light, Of other days around me; Chorus 1 The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood’s years,…
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Going Home, Largo from the “New World” Symphony (0184 of 1000)
https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Going-Home–Dvorak-New-World-ADAGIO.mp3 Going Home 1. Home, home, home, home, I’m going home. 2. Going home, going home, I am going home; Quiet like, some still day, I’m just going home. It’s not far, just close by, Through an open door; Work all done, care laid by, Going to fear no more. Mother’s there, ‘specting me, Father’s…
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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (0367 of 1000)
https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/I-Heard-the-Bells-on-Christmas-Day.mp3 Christmas Bells Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 John Baptiste Calkin 1827-1905 1. I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! 2. & thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along…
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Last Rose of Summer (Song 0006 of 1000)
Key of D, as written. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LastRoseOfSummer-D.mp3 Key of Bb. https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LastRoseOfSummer-Bb.mp3 ‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1779 – 1852 Irish Air, “The Groves of Blarney” 1. ‘Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindred, No rose-bud is nigh, To…
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Auld Lang Syne (Song 0005 of 1000)
(Two Verses for Instrumental Lead-In) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AuldLangSyne.mp3 (Three Verses for Singing) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AuldLangSyne-3-verses.mp3 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns 1. Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot and old lang syne? Chorus Chorus For auld lang syne, my dear for auld lang syne we’ll take a cup of kindness yet…
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There’s No Place Like Home (Song 0001 of 1000)
From “Clari, the Maid of Milan” (1821). Music by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1785 – 1855). Libretto by J.H. Payne (1791 – 1852) https://1000-good-songs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Home-Sweet-Home.mp3 This shortlink https://1000-good-songs.org/p/42