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When You Were Sweet Sixteen

Words and Music by James Thornton - 1898

Number one record in 1900 for five weeks, sold over a million copies of sheet music.

Chorus:
C	-                 E7	F                A7	D7
Dm7	G7             G+	C	Dm7           G7
C	-                 E7	F              Edim	Dm
F              F#dim	C               Am	D9	Dm             G7
C	-          (G7 repeat)	|

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Chorus:

I love you as I never loved before,
Since first I met you on the village green.
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er.
I love you as I loved you, When you were sweet,

When you were sweet sixteen.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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