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Basso Profundo Am I
         
George Botsford Al Bernard

  

 = 85 3 3

      
       
    
  
Ev 'ry one has a sec ret long ing and

        
   
3


3

 
     3 
  
     
 

             3      3       3  

4
3

 
         
when I grew to a man How I want ed to be a ten or and sing as ten ors can!

     
 
            
   

                 
 
7

 
          
Love songs sweet full of sym pa thy, I would sing them all the while! But

 
       
      

            
    
9 ritenuto


           
     
all such songs are not left for me, I must sing "The Big Bass Viol!

      

       
     
  
   = 85
          
     
a tempo
11

  
         
For my voice be came a bass! All such songs are out of place

           
   
 
                 
     
3 3

                  
 
16

 
                 
Songs of the sea or of drink are left for me; of love, not the slight est

                
    
           
    


         
        
19
 


          
       
trace Yet a ten or I would be Full of sweet est sym pa thy But

        
      
    

      
     



3

       
              
24

 
 
down went my voice in the dee pest of tones; Love can't be heard in a cho rus of groans

        

  
            
  

2
 

    
      


     

28 ritenuto
a tempo


 
             
Now when I sing I must praise Da vy Jones! "Rocked in the cra dle of the

      

                
     


 

         

31


                          
deep," That sort of song I must sing

           
 
   

 

 

 


 

      
           



 
34

  
            
"Drink ing, drink ing, drink ing!" Such songs do not mean a thing But

      
 
   
        
    
colla voce



      
       

38

   
       

                  
   
if my voice was a ten or, I'd sing way up to high C! 3

            
      
  
   

 
3

3
     
          
 
42

   
          
Love songs grand I could then com mand, Oh! how hap py I'd

    
     
    
  
       

 
   

             

45

        
      
be! 5 But down went my voice in the deep est of tones;

         

        
  


            
      
48


  
Love can't be heard in a chor us of groans. Now when I sing I must

    
 
      
       
     

         
             
   



51

  
          
 
    
praise Da vy Jones! For a bas so pro fun do, a bas so pro fun do, a

       
 
            
 
       
   
  

4
   
  
         
54



         
      
 
bas so pro fun do am I!


3 3

     
         

       
 
 
 