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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
09-Jun-12 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Lorena' & 'Wildwood Flower' via Webster
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Lorena' & 'Wildwood Flower' via Webster
Genie, already posted.
Original sheet music for "Lorena" is at American Memory.
I am looking for "In the sweet...." original sheet music. The lyricist is given as Sanford F. Bennett, 1868, at Cyberhymnal. The cover sheet of the original sheet music is illustrated in the Wikipedia article.
Bennett wrote a description of Webster, quoted at Cyberhymnal-
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/n/t/intsbab.htm