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Jim Dixon Lyr Add: Absent Friends and You, Mary (W. Spicer) (7) RE: Lyr Add: Absent Friends and You, Mary (W. Spicer) 28 Aug 22


A musical arrangement can also be seen in:
The Most Popular Songs of Patriotism (New York: Hinds, Hayden & Elldredge, 1916), page 72.


The author, William Francis Spicer, has been mentioned in biographical encyclopedias as the author of ABSENT FRIENDS AND YOU, MARY, as well as several other naval songs. See:

James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 5 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888), page 631.

Thomas William Herringshaw, ed., Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1914), page 298.


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