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Thread #41889   Message #3646161
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Jul-14 - 10:04 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Cabin on the Mississippi Shore
The other song is "Mississippi Shore," lyrics by Charley Lawton Lovell, music by Edgar G. Spinning.

Sheet music at American Memory. A sad song, about Nellie who now "lies sleeping."
Published by Oliver Ditson, Boston, 1857.
No information on Ch. L. Lovell (possible;, English, ancestry.com, record for 1860).
Edgar G. Spinning wrote "The Blind Soldier's Lament," 1863; an American Civil War song (not seen).

1st. verse:

Where the Mississippi's waters lave a flow'ry southern shore,
A little cot was standing in the happy days of yore;
There oft-times I have wandered, with Nellie by my side,
And watched the wavy motion of the river's rolling tide.