Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and Mother

Subject: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: GUEST,Louis Lee
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 06:09 AM

Dear sirs,

Would you please find me the complete lyric of the song Dreaming of Home and Mother composed by John P. Ordway.If possible please give me some ideas how can I buy the recordings of this song(preferable early recordings by classical vocalists)

Thanks!

Louis Lee [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: GUEST,Greyeyes, at work
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:00 AM

Sheet music with lyrics can be found here No time to transcribe at present.

Subject: Lyr Add: DREAMING OF HOME AND MOTHER (J P Ordway)
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:58 PM

DREAMING OF HOME AND MOTHER
(John P Ordway)

Dreaming of home, dear old home!
Home of my childhood and mother;
Oft when I wake 'tis sweet to find
I've been dreaming of home and mother.
Home dear home, childhood's happy home!
Where I played with sister and with brother.
'Twas the sweetest joy when we did roam,
Over hill and thru' dale with mother.

Chorus:
Dreaming of home, dear old home!
Home of my childhood and mother;
Oft when I wake 'tis sweet to find
I've been dreaming of home and mother.

Sleep, balmy sleep, close mine eyes.
Keep me still thinking of mother,
Hark 'tis her voice I seem to hear,
Yes, I'm dreaming of home and mother.
Angels come, soothing me to rest,
I can feel their presence as no other;
For they sweetly say I shall be blest
With bright visions of home and mother.


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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:04 PM

Should have put ADD in that pot.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: Greyeyes
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:06 PM

Or even that post.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: Snuffy
Date: 02 Apr 01 - 07:02 PM

Greyeyes

You have to put the Add in the Subject box, not in the main message - see the top of each post. Yours say Re: Lyr Req:, I made mine Lyr Add: - that way the Digitrad elves will find it easier.

Fixed the way it shoulda been. --AnnElf, 3-Jun-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: Greyeyes
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:33 PM

Thanks Snuffy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: Snuffy
Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:10 PM

Any time, Greyeyes. I see the ^^ have appeared under the lyrics now. That means its been harvested for a future update iof the DT. Way to go!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 May 05 - 10:11 PM

Original sheet music is at the Levy collection.

Title: Dreaming of Home & Mother. Song and Chorus.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Poetry and Music by John P. Ordway, M.D.
M. D. Publication: Boston: G.D. Russell & Company, No. 186 Tremont St., 1868.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Dreaming of home, dear old home! Home of my childhood and Mother
First Line of Chorus: Dreaming of home, dear old home! Home of my childhood and Mother
Dedicatee: To Charles Henry, Esq.

In Japan, this song is well known as "Ryoshu," which first appeared in a school songbook Chuto Kyoiku Shokashu published in 1907. Click here for the score.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dreaming of Home and mother
From: masato sakurai
Date: 28 May 05 - 10:08 AM

Japanese lyrics, midi. The melody is slightly simplified from the original.