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rrayner
07-02-2017, 03:49 PM
This month, two songs of the American Southwest are featured. “Ballad of High Noon” was written in 1952 by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the movie, “High Noon”. This is a “story” song, for which I’ve had an affinity over my lifetime. The story in this song pretty much sums up the movie, with the newly-married small town marshal, Will Kane (Gary Cooper) facing a death threat from a newly-released-from-prison bad guy arriving on the noon train. The subtitle for the song is “Do Not Forsake Me” - Marshal Kane’s plea to his bride, Amy Fowler Kane (Grace Kelly), as he faces his fate.

If you would like to see the lyrics or the chords, you can use Composer commands to display them: for lyrics use qsl; for chords use qscn.

Ralph R. Rayner