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boll-weevil.md

@@ -28,3 +28,95 @@ I don't see no water \
 But I'm about to drown \
 I don't see no fire \
 But I'm burning down
+
+```lily
+\version "2.24.4"
+\paper { indent=0 }
+\header {
+  title="Boll Weevil"
+  instrument="5-String Banjo, gCGCD# Tuning / Gourd Banjo, eAEAC Tuning"
+  % composer=""
+  arranger="Josh Turknett"
+  tagline = ##f
+}
+global = {
+  \time 2/4
+  \tempo 2 = 120
+  % \key b \major
+}
+
+mel = { %\global
+  c8\2 <g\3 c\2 dis'\1>16 g'16\5
+  \deadNote c16\2 g16\3 <g\3 c\2 dis'\1>16 g'16\5 |
+  
+  ais16\3( g16\3 ) g16\3 g'16\5
+  f16\4( c16\4 ) g16\3 g'16\5 |
+  
+  ais8\3 <g\3 c\2 dis'\1>16 g'16\5
+  \deadNote c16\2 ais16\3 <ais\3 c\2 dis'\1>16 g'16\5 |
+  
+  c8\2 <g\3 c\2 dis'\1>16 g'16\5
+  \deadNote dis'16\1 c16\2 d16\2( dis16\2 ) | \break
+  
+  
+}
+
+voc = {
+  
+}
+
+lyr = \lyricmode { "
+  Boll weevil told the farmer
+  \"You better treat me right
+  I'll eat up all o' your cotton
+  Sleep in your grain rail tonight\"
+  
+  Boll weevil told the farmer
+  \"You don't need no Ford machine
+  I'll eat up all of your cotton
+  Can't buy no gasoline\"
+  
+  Yonder comes the spider
+  Crawled up and down the wall
+  He must've been going
+  To get his hash's haul
+  
+  I don't see no water
+  But I'm about to drown
+  I don't see no fire
+  But I'm burning down
+" }
+
+\score {
+  <<
+    \new TabStaff \with {
+      midiInstrument = "banjo"
+      tablatureFormat = #fret-number-tablature-format-banjo
+      stringTunings = \stringTuning <g' c g c dis'>
+      % stringTunings = #banjo-open-g-tuning % equivalent to \stringTuning <g' d g b d'>
+    }
+    {
+      % \set Score.stringOneTopmost = ##f
+      \override Beam.concaveness = #10000
+      \clef moderntab
+      \numericTimeSignature
+      \stemDown
+      \tabFullNotation
+      \global
+      \mel
+    }
+    
+    \new Staff = "voice" <<
+      \new Voice = "vocal" \with {midiInstrument = "choir oohs"} {
+        \global
+        \voc
+      }
+    >>
+    \new Lyrics \lyricsto "vocal" {
+      \lyr
+    }
+  >>
+  \layout { }
+  \midi { }
+}
+```