Two Elvis Songs (Easy Accordion)

Description

The title on the cover of this sheet music is Farewell Song – Aura Lee. The title is frankly understated.  The music, arranged for easy accordion by Arthur Metzler, actually is for two different songs.  The first, Farewell Song, is the popular German folk tune Muss i Denn, which dates back to the 1820s.  The other song, Aura Lea (misspelled as Aura Lee), is a song from the American Civil War period.  Here’s an interesting cover from 1864 of one of the first publications of sheet music for Aura Lea:

These folk tunes were made popular again in two Elvis Presley movies as Wooden Heart (1960) and Love Me Tender (1956).

You can listen to both songs for easy accordion here:

Wooden Heart

Love Me Tender

(c) 1961, Vitak-Elsnic Company.