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Keep on the Sunny Side: alto part

The alto part of Keep on the Sunny Side in Ab, from Bb3 to C5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words, most often a sixth or a third under the tune, mostly on E-flat and C, with G, holds G through "meet with the darkness and", and leaps up an octave, after a rest, into the chorus.

Range
Bb3 to C5
Key
Ab
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  1. 01 · Your part

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  2. 02 · With the others

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About Keep on the Sunny Side

Words: Ada Blenkhorn (1899)

Tune: J. Howard Entwisle (1899)

Keep on the Sunny Side has words by Ada Blenkhorn and music by J. Howard Entwisle, and it appeared in 1899 in Bright Melodies, a Philadelphia songbook by John R. Sweney and Entwisle. The Carter Family recorded it in Camden, New Jersey, in 1928, and it became their familiar theme song. Our arrangement is read from Entwisle's own four parts in Heavenly Sunlight, a songbook of 1900, where it is called Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, in A-flat as printed, kept close to how he wrote them, with the alto taking the chord's third from the tenor in a few places. This is the first verse and the chorus for 2 to 4 singers, bright and bouncing, everyone on the words: the alto a sixth or a third under the tune, the tenor filling the chord, mostly on A-flat and E-flat, and the bass on the roots, mostly A-flat and E-flat.

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