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1867 - 1917

A Picture

Of Her Face

Piano / Voice.

Scott Joplin

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Transcription by Tony Wilkinson 2011.

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This

I'll

ne'er

life

is

for

ve

get

-

ry

the

-

sad

days

to

I've

me,

passed,

a

with

sor

Grace,

row

so

-

fills
kind

my

and

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heart,
true,

My

She

sto

was

ry
to

-

I

me

will

each

tell

day

to

more

you,

joy

from
than

me

all

my

the

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Words & Music by

Scott Joplin 1895

A Picture of her Face

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love

girls

did

I

part,
knew,

The
My

vil

love

lage

for

-

church

her

bell

will

sad

ne'er

ly

grow

-

tolled,

cold

the

though

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one

she

I

has

loved

passed

had

a

died.
way,

-

She

I'll

was

love

a

her

trea

still

sure

when

-

more

I

than

am

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gold,

old

when

e'en

she

to

was

my

by

dy

my
ing

-

side.
day.

But
But

now
now

she's

I

gone

must

be

con

-

-

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yond

tent

re

my

call,

self,

-

-

in

her

a

si

me

lent

mo

-

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tomb

ry

-

she

to

sleeps,

love,

The

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me

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so

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me,

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