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X:1     %Music
T:Hope the Hermit
N:Seventeenth Century
B:Singing Together, Autumn 1966, BBC Publications
M:4/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:C
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w:Once in a blythe green-wood Lived a her-mit wise and good Whom the folks from far and near
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w:For his coun-cil sought, Know-ing well that what he taught The drear-i-est of hearts would cheer.
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w:Though his hair was white His eye was clear and bright, And he thus was ev-er wont to say:
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w:"Though to care we are born, Yet the dull-est morn Of-ten her-alds in the fair-est day!"