{"id":3805,"date":"2018-12-26T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:31:18","slug":"hold-me-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/hold-me-close\/","title":{"rendered":"(Say You Love Me and) Hold Me Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a weird little 5-time waltz for Christmas. The beat is 1-2, 1-2-3.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve only notated it in ABC, so paste the following into your favourite ABC app to see the dots or hear the tune. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nilsliberg.se\/ksp\/easyabc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyABC<\/a> by Nils Libeg (release 1.3.5). <em>(Update: see PDF below, created from EasyABC using Windows build-in print-to-PDF tool.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Try this variation: play f-natural at the top of the run in bars 9 and 13. It may fool the melodeon players, if nothing else \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to Carole O&#8217;Connor, who inspired it.<\/p>\n<p>X:1<br \/>T:Hold Me Close<br \/>C:Mark Fry<br \/>M:5\/4<br \/>L:1\/4<br \/>K:G<br \/>|: D | DGG2G\/2E\/2 | DBB2A\/2B\/2 | cBAGF | AAD2D | DGG2G\/2E\/2 | DBB2A\/2B\/2 | cBAGF | AAG2:|<br \/>|: B | cdefe | ddB2B | cBAGA | Bcd2B | cdefe | ddB2B | cBAGF | AAG2:|<\/p>\n<p>alternative B-section:<\/p>\n<p>|: B | cde=fe | ddB2B | cBAGA | Bcd2B | cde=fe | ddB2B | cBAGF | AAG2:|<\/p>\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HoldMeClose.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of HoldMeClose.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d675c77b-1a72-4008-a439-5d47fd935c04\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HoldMeClose.pdf\">HoldMeClose<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HoldMeClose.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d675c77b-1a72-4008-a439-5d47fd935c04\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a weird little 5-time waltz for Christmas. The beat is 1-2, 1-2-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music_for_friends","category-music-scores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steamage.co.uk\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}