Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, easy version

Melody and left-hand roots

The melody as Elvey wrote it, with the left hand playing only the root of the harmony at the start of each bar. It leaves out 142 of the piece's 214 notes and adds none, so it is still the real piece: level 2 of 7, where the piece as written is level 3.

Level: 2 of 7
As written: Level 3
Notes: 72 of 214
Key: G major
Time: 4/4
Length: 16 bars

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The first 8 bars of Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, easy version, on the grand staff — The first 8 bars of the easy version.

The piece as written, level 3, and all 4 of its versions are on Come, Ye Thankful People, Come's page.

Score typed for Clefsight from Eden Publishing House, St. Louis, 1921 (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is public domain: George Job Elvey died in 1893. Credits