Not sure what variant you're looking for, is it The Hat, or The Sash, or what?

I had downloaded an image of some sheet music of The Hat My Father Wore, probably from Library of Congress but I'm not sure.

It has a cover sheet listing it as one of several "Popular Songs Sung by Johnny Roach" "subtitled The Great Facial Artiste".

"Published by E.H. Harding, 229 Bowery" "New York"

On that cover is the imprint of a rubber stamp dated May 15, 1900.


On the first page of the sheet music, they list "Words by Daniel MaCarthy" (sic) "Sung by Johnny Roach" and no credit to any composer.

At the bottom is a notice "Copyright, 1876, by E.H. Harding"


That's all I know, for what it's worth in your research. So what was the timespan of Mr. Byron's writing life? Do you think this publisher may have stolen his 19th century work and credit? Or if Mr. Byron lived later on, is it possible he wrote additional words to be used in the movie? And what about Johnny Patterson, whom the above article says is 'attributed' with the song, wonder how that could be proved or disproved.

What a fascinating thing to try to unravel the song's story, especially wound up as it is with the other songs.