LyrReq: In the Heart of the City that Has No Heart

Subject: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: GUEST,Newfiegirl
Date: 30 Dec 02 - 10:08 AM

Can anybody help with the lyrics to this old song?"
thanks....god bless.
Here is all I have to this song...

She's just a lost sister and nobody miss her
She's there in a city that has no pity
In a city that has no heart.

Nobody cares if she laughs or cries
Nobody cares if she lives or dies
She's there in the city that has no pity
In a city that has no heart.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: masato sakurai
Date: 30 Dec 02 - 10:34 AM

It's in the Levy collection:

Title: In the Heart of the City (That Has No Heart).
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Thos. S. Allen. Music by Joseph M. Daly.
Joseph M. Daly Publication: Boston: Daly Music Publisher, 1913.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice (solo and ttbb chorus)
First Line: She wanted to roamd so she left the old home
First Line of Chorus: In the heart of the city that has no heart
Performer: [Louise Marcou[?]]
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of Louise Marcou; E. Pfeiffer, N.Y.
Advertisement: ads on back cover for Daly stock
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Clocks & watches
Subject: Street railroads
Subject: Vice
Subject: Courtship
Subject: Sadness
Subject: Families
Call No.: Box: 152 Item: 186

Also in American Memory:

"In the heart of the city that has no heart" (words by Thos. S. Allen; music by Joseph M. Daly; Boston, Mass.: Daly Music Publisher, c1913).

MIDI is HERE.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: Brakn
Date: 30 Dec 02 - 10:58 AM

Is that the same song?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: GUEST,Newfiegirl
Date: 30 Dec 02 - 11:51 AM

Thanks a lot for the song.
take care...god bless

Subject: ADD: In the Heart of the City That Has No Heart
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Feb 03 - 08:02 PM

Lyrics copied from http://www.halcyondaysmusic.com/february/february2001.htm
(There is also a midi file at that site.)

IN THE HEART OF THE CITY THAT HAS NO HEART
(Words by Thos. S. Allen, music by Joseph M. Daly, 1913)

She wanted to roam, so she left the old home.
The old people's hearts were sore.
She longed for the sights and the bright city lights
Where hundreds had gone before.
She went to the heart of the city
And mingled with strangers there,
But nobody said, "You are being misled,"
For what did the stranger care?

CHORUS: In the heart of the city that has no heart,
That's where they meet, and that's where they part.
The current of vice had proved too strong,
So the poor little girlie just drifted along.
Nobody cared if she lived or died.
Nobody cared if she laughed or cried.
She's just lost a sister and nobody's missed her.
She's there in the city where there's no pity,
In the city that has no heart.

A year passes by. There's a tear in her eye,
And sorrow is on her brow.
Oh! What would she do if the old people knew?
She couldn't go back home now.
Her dear mother said when they parted,
"Remember your good old name."
Then her daddy said, "Rather we'd see you dead
Than bring us disgrace and shame." CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Jul 09 - 08:35 PM

This song was sung by a black American trio called "The Haywood Trio." Their photograph appears on the 1913 sheet music (at American Memory, Daly Music Publishers, Boston).

Did they make any recordings? Any information?

(Not the current English trio of that name).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'A City That Has No Heart'
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Jul 09 - 12:44 AM

You can hear a recording of IN THE HEART OF THE CITY THAT HAS NO HEART performed by Henry Burr and Ada Jones in 1914 at The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.