John Walsh wrote: > A Christmas challenge: find the shortest abc for the music to the >Twelve Days of Christmas. (all verses, & all extensions suggested in this >thread are welcome, of course.)
Ooh, I can't resist. Here's a starter using no extensions other than inline fields: X:1 T:The Twelve Days of Christmas M:none %a cop out P:AB ACDB AC2DB AC3DB AEDB ACEDB AC2EDB AC3EDB AC4EDB AC4EDB AC5EDB AC6EDB K:D [P:A] AA | A2 dd d2 cd | efge f3 || w:On the nth day of Christmas* my true love sent to me [P:B] g |a2 bg fd e2 | d3 || w:a partridge** in a pear tree. [P:C] a2 | ef g2 [P:D]||f || w:Two tur-tle doves and w:Three French* hens w:Four ca-lling birds %etc [P:E] a2 b^g a4 || agfe d2 g2 | B2 d2 edcB A2 | w:Five gold* rings, Four* calling birds, Three french hens, Two turtle doves Plays fine in BarFly. Now I've wasted all that time when I should have been shopping:-) Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
