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1840
Teach, Oh Teach Me to Forget: A Favorite German
Melody
Henry R. Bishop
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Bishop, Henry R., "Teach, Oh Teach Me to Forget: A Favorite German Melody" (1840). Historic Sheet Music Collection. Paper 230.
http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/230
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And
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her
on - - Jy wakes them,
cav - - erns
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heart's
If yon blame
aJ - ft>cti 011
m~., d eep
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me not to festive bow'rs
with them J sat there ' fa!'it;
NIVe me not sprin~ s early flow rs,
Tht•y'll remind me of 1he past:
Mnsic se<'ms Jike mourufuJ wailinp;,
111 ilu• fo1lls wJ1ere we have met;
Mirth \ µ.,.1y call ji;; 1111avaiJiu~,
Te>aeh,oh , le;:wh m(• to forp;et.
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'Twas
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011e ,,ho hopelessJ y ren1emf1eri;; ,
Cannot bea_r a d,rnning- Jiµ,ht;
Ht' wo11Jd rather watch lllf' em hers,
Of a love tha1 once was bright :
' Who ~halJ school the l1e11 rt;., a fleet iou t
"\\no «hall 1,an i ~h its rt·~rf't !
If you blame my d£ t>J> dejection,
Teach, oh, leach rne · 1o forget •
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