"Housewife's Lament" - filename[ HSEWFLAM
We determined in thread 129897 that the original poem was written by Eliza Sproat Turner (1826-1903), published in Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine, Volume 37 (Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur & Sons, April, 1871), page 241. The original title of the poem was "The Housekeeper's Tragedy."
There are a few corrections for the lyrics of Cyril Tawney's "Five Foot Flirt" in this message (click).
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In America the Beautiful, filename[ AMBEAUT1
the songwriter is twice referred to as Kathering Lee Bates.
Alan Bell's Windmills (plural) is incorrectly identified as a singular "Windmill," filename filename[ WNDMILL. The DT transcription has several minor errors and mondegreens. A fully corrected text can be found in this message
A couple of typos in the text of "The Death of Emma Hartsell," filename[ HARTSELL:
- last line of third verse: Her throat was cut frorn ear to ear. - "from"
- last line of fourth verse: Tl@e howling mob could scarcely pass - first word is "The."
- first line of tenth verse: As they stood on death'ss cold brink - "death's
-Joe-