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Cover features: title and composition information; background drawing of Allies' air symbol, a bull's-eye (blue, white, and red).

Climbin' high

Date1940
Names
(composer)
(lyricist)
FormatEphemera
Notes
For voice and piano; includes guitar chords and fingering diagrams.
Key: E-flat major.
On front cover: "Canada's air song, to the Royal Canadian Air Force".
On back cover: advertising incipits for "We've rolled up the old umbrella" and "The pretty little mitt that Kitty knit".
Subject
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
    Sheet music
    Dimensions31 cm x 23 cm (12 3/16 in. x 9 1/16 in.)
    Language
      CollectionSpecial Collections in the Arts
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberCSM-COUCLI1940-001
      Climbin' high
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      Coulter, Jimmie, 1908-
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