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"T" was a Tortoise (from An Edward Lear Nonsense Alphabet)
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.From "An Edward Lear Nonsense Alphabet". All my nonsense alphabet songs are parodistic. This one is in the style of a Baroque or pre-Baroque canon. The tortoise wanders somewhat dissonantly over the rocks, then disappears into tonal amibiguity (yes, the last note is correct – an F). On the advice of the SibMus review below, I have added marks to show that the accentuation should follow the normal accentuation of Spoken English (although I think that the length of the syllables also does so). In any case, it should not be very strongly accented – it's a tortoise! "T was a Tortoise / All yellow and black / He walked slowly away / And he never came back."
