Lyr Req: Save My Mother's Picture (Brown/Walsh)

Subject: Lyr Req: "Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: GUEST,Newfiegirl
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 09:58 AM

Can someone please help me find the lyrics to this song?"
"Save my Mothers picture from the sale"... thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM

Didn't find any lyrics, but you can listen to it at Honking Duck and try to transcribe them yourself. Or, perhaps some kind person who hears better than I do will do it for you...........

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:31 AM

The sheet music is at the Levy Collection (click on the title, and go on to next pages).

Title: Save My Mother's Picture. Song and Chorus.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by C.W. Brown. Music by J. Walsh.
J. Walsh Publication: New York: Willis Woodward & Co., 842 & 844 Broadway, 1885.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice (solo and satb chorus)
First Line: I've been thinking of the day that has long since passed away
First Line of Chorus: My mother's face that dear old face, her loss I ever shall bewail
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Thorburn N.Y.
Advertisement: ads on inside front and on back covers for Willis Woodward & Co. stock
Subject: Mothers & children
Subject: Death
Subject: Grief
Subject: Auctions
Subject: Keepsakes
Call No.: Box: 138 Item: 093

Recording is:

"Save My Mother's Picture From The Sale" by Dr Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers (1929) [RealAudio; melody is not the same], from Honkingduck.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:36 AM

Dadgummit, I keep forgetting about Levy; thanks Masato!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:40 AM

Also at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885:

Save my mother's picture (1885), by J. Walsh

Uncle Dave Macon sang it. Isn't this here in the forum?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 10:50 AM

I didn't find it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: GUEST,Newfiegirl
Date: 30 Nov 02 - 02:30 PM

Hey by's,
Thanks so much for helping me with this song, it's exactly the one I've been searching for. Take care, and God bless...

Subject: Lyr Add: SAVE MY MOTHER'S PICTURE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Dec 02 - 11:30 PM

Transcribed from the sheet music at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1885+18527))

SAVE MY MOTHER'S PICTURE
(Words, C. W. Brown. Music, J. Walsh. 1885)

I've been thinking of the day that has long since passed away
When my mother through a sickness drooped and died,
And the still and silent room when they laid her in the tomb.
I remember then how bitterly I cried.
I but a boy was then. My age was scarcely ten,
And with sorrow I had grown so thin and pale.
When the home had to be sold, I cried with grief untold,
"Oh! Save my mother's picture from the sale!"

CHORUS: My mother's face, that dear old face,
Her loss I ever shall bewail.
Don't break an orphan's heart. With that don't make me part.
Oh! Save my mother's picture from the sale!

The auction day came round. With mirth the room did sound.
The things I loved so well soon passed away.
The chair in which she sat and in which she liked to chat--
They all went into a stranger's hands that day.
The table where I played, the cot in which I laid--
All passed away like chaff before the gale.
But when the end came near, I cried with piteous fear,
"Oh! Save my mother's picture from the sale!"

The picture round was passed, and questions they were asked.
A price was bid for it just here and there.
The tears streamed down my face. I could scarce keep in the place
When I saw the picture pass without a care.
But an angel of a girl with a mass of golden curls
Who was struck to see my face so sad and pale,
She outbid them all, you see, and presented it to me
And saved my mother's picture from the sale.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: Stewie
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 01:51 AM

I have posted Uncle Dave Macon's version in the Uncle Dave Macon lyrics thread: Click Here

Apart from the omission of one stanza, a slight rearrangement of stanza order and some minor textual changes, it is pretty close to the original posted above by Jim.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:19 AM

Thank you, Stewie.