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04 Apr 02 - 12:49 PM (#682899) Subject: Old Lullabye From: GUEST,Colleen My mom is desperately seeking the lyrics to songs that her mother sang to her as a child in the 30's. She has given me titles as she remembers them, but I have not been able to find any songs by those titles. She remembers them as, "She Counted Each Penny", "My Best Girl", "Only Me", and "The Passing Policeman". Can anyone help me find these songs? Thanks! |
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04 Apr 02 - 01:31 PM (#682942) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabyes From: Sorcha The Fatherland, The Motherland, The Land of My Best Girl at Levy. Maybe? She's My Best Girl, Levy Also this from Levy: Title: My Best Girl. Song. Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: by Walter Donaldson. Publication: New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1924. No music available. Only Me, Levy Lost Child, Levy, first phrase includes "passing policeman". Let us know if these are correct, OK? |
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04 Apr 02 - 02:24 PM (#682987) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabyes From: SINSULL Hi Colleen. I have been looking for a recording of "ONLY ME" without success for about a year. My father has promised to do one for me. If you know of one, please let me know. Thanks, Mary |
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04 Apr 02 - 02:27 PM (#682990) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabyes From: Sorcha No luck at all on She Counted. |
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05 Apr 02 - 09:08 AM (#683637) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabyes From: GUEST,Colleen Thanks, Sorcha, for the "Lost Child" info. That's the one I was looking for, and "Only Me" also. No luck with the "My Best Girl" song, though. The song I am looking for is about a little newsboy who tells people he will show them a picture of his best girl, and the picture he shows is a picture of his mother. I hope someone can find "She Counted Each Penny (she didn't have many....etc.) I think that's the one my mom would most love to find. Thanks, Mary, for your efforts, as well. I hope the version of "Only Me" that Sorcha found is what you are looking for, too. |
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05 Apr 02 - 11:26 AM (#683735) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabyes From: masato sakurai There're 4 songs with the title "My Best Girl" in ASCAP database. ~Masato |
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07 Apr 02 - 03:32 PM (#685055) Subject: Lyr Add: THE LITTLE LOST CHILD (Marks, Stern) From: Jim Dixon Transcribed from the copy at The Lester H. Levy Collection of Sheet Music.
THE LITTLE LOST CHILD
A passing policeman found a little child.
CHO: "Do not fear, my little darling, and I* will take you right home.
"'Twas all through a quarrel. Madly jealous, she [*Use "we" in second chorus. **Use "us" in second chorus.] |
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09 Apr 02 - 10:49 AM (#686151) Subject: Lyr Add: ONLY ME (Ford & Bratton, 1894) From: Jim Dixon Transcribed from the sheet music at the Levy site, and edited a bit: ONLY ME [Published 1894.] NOTE. "The Story told in this little song is of a Mother who lavished all her maternal caresses upon one favorite child, while the other she treated with indifference. The childish expression "It's Only Me," made a deeper impression on the Author, than a masterpiece of grammatical construction could possibly have done." Words by Walter H. Ford. Music by John W. Bratton,
A mother of fashion was being arrayed
CHO: "Only me, only me," sobbed in a weary tone,
Close to a white cot on a bright summer day, |
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20 May 05 - 12:24 PM (#1489260) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs From: GUEST,dmeyer022tampabay.rr.com I am looking for the words to a Lullaby it has (A passing policeman found a little girl she walk beside him at the station when he ask her name she answred "Jenny" which made him exclain.) |
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22 May 05 - 11:41 PM (#1490975) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Old Songs From: Jim Dixon GUEST, the song you're asking about is called THE LITTLE LOST CHILD. Lyrics have already been posted in another thread called "Lyr Req: Old Lullabies" (Click). If you want to discuss that song, please do it in that thread because this thread is about one specific song called "The Old Songs." (The title IS confusing and others have made the same mistake.) |
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10 Aug 10 - 07:09 PM (#2962452) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Lullabies From: GUEST,Chris Thank Jim Dixon so much for the lyrics to "A Mother of Fashion". I've been looking for them for ages. It wss one of my grandmother's favorite songs, and she used to sing it to me, (and I'm 81!) Chris Jameson |
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15 Sep 10 - 10:24 AM (#2987223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: old lullabies From: GUEST,Deb Lawrence Thank you for the lyrics for A Lady of Fashion, my mother who passed away June 27th 2010 sang this to me as a small child. |
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15 Sep 10 - 12:16 PM (#2987304) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: old lullabies From: Tannywheeler Lullabies!!?? Shudder. Of course, my own kids loved Jean Ritchie's "Old Woman All Skin & Bones"! & "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"...Tw |
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09 Aug 21 - 08:17 AM (#4115904) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: old lullabies From: GUEST Thank you to Jim Dixon. How kind of you to fill in the gaps of our memories. Laurel |
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09 Aug 21 - 12:19 PM (#4115934) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: old lullabies From: GUEST,# The song referred to in the OP as "She Counted Each Penny" may be the following: “She’s Been A Mother To Me” 1896 Words by Walter H. Ford Music by John W. Bratton A poor little maiden, with newspapers laden Was trying her best not to cry She counted each penny, she didn’t have many Then called a policeman near by, My mother’s in jail, sir, will you take this bail, sir And tell them she didn’t do wrong. It’s all a mistake, sir, And her heart will break, sir, If I am away from her long. Chorus She’s been a mother to me, Good and true, Kind as no other could be, All I know, We’ve one another, you see, Just we two, That’s why I love her, I do, For she’s been a mother to me. She isn’t my mother, but there I’ve not other She found me one day at her door, She did all she could, sir, to bring me up good, sir She couldn’t do wrong I am sure, The judge heard her story, her face shone with glory, Your mother, may go, my dear child. And as he dismissed them, She ran up and kissed him, Then turned to the court room and smiled. Chorus That is from https://cityhallpark1899.com/2013/08/22/shes-been-a-mother-to-me/ |
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09 Aug 21 - 01:28 PM (#4115938) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: old lullabies From: Monique Here are the Yiddish lyrics:
מיר דוכט ,אז די סאָﬥﬢﬡטן ,וועלכע הכּן |