--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 11 published: 1917-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Evan Stephens, "Whistle a Merry Tune," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 11 (September 1917): 1014–1015.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20011unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera20011unse start_page: 1014 end_page: 1015 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20011unse publication_year: 1917 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Whistle a Merry Tune IMPROVEMENT ERA Whistle a Merry Tune A Whistling Chorus for Junior Boys. Evan Stephens. 1. Should you feel as if everything's go - ing wrong, And 2. Should you feel as if everything's growing old, And 3 You may charm all about like the flow'rg of spring, And v— *—gr-ad m\ — *=*^— — — kit* :r ns-r-N 1 f -^- 9 't worth half a common song, Try to gather to- d the world are be - :oming cold, You may charm back the around you to smile and sing, You may turn many _._Ji?l_^ -0 — -I r =l 1 —5i*1 — ( ~ -T ! ±z=t — m m- S^^- -I II gtther your frowning lips, And snap both together your sunshine and joy of life, By whit-tling a stick with your sor-row-ful nights to day, And brighten your path as you >— -m^-^-&—t-*—F- f-— 0— -V— &~ t-E it:: P es-" ' I . -I 0- -0- # m —* —•- 4=8=* -r- -0 v. % I WHISTLE A MERRY TUNE 1015 p^s^p^ip fin - ger pock-et And whistle a mer - ry tip? And whig ling a mer - ry knife —\ —— k tune, ..-£i H'/n'sf/e. i tune, wend your way, By whistling a mer ry - sune. rJE^g # =£-Cf— r-m r f » = -I , ,/— -^ — »-. -I —"i_ Ef^U^F^=E-^fctTit=^ = ? i-i-i m 1z==ES3==gi^=3 ^i==E=^j=^= Efi— 3 = .0. -0. -» —•—• —«r r» s— « —rd-«-f-S-P-i—F£ —•— Hfc dE—fc wrimJ—W — : — *kI b< 1 L l n— I .1 — ' F- A . A A A -— -0-3 — *P—n 1 c-**^-B-»- m -i I — i h— e h— t ^- — I I — _ \ —P— I \_ 1 * h »— 1 Y~ —rp— \ ' 1 — —*- —3 ' "rs in \ p— —q— 1 j — 1 «-* _c I _h 1S1_ S- . *_#_,-_ t-t-0- S—•S F - F F -p_ F _ F -C««-»- F - . F3 gg— I 0—0—* •— |-j-ji-|»-|-j»H»-p- 000-* A >V, 'P *** ** ^^ Repeat ad lib. j * -- 5g LI 1 r w p — l>J .2. H #. tj. _ 1 >_ iJ :£ 1/ -Jf. _J T ' (Sing) Just whistle a mer-ry tune. -0-*m '0~ N « *** """ « J -"^ m # f—T-— ft—F— *—v-f> >- 1 I - ' -FF i-Hl _« ig_»_ F : # —0— =1 '3