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08 Jun 98 - 05:06 PM (#30323) Subject: Break the News to Mother From: FTCF39A@prodigy.com Need lyrics or any knowledge if a song existed. Understand it is from the Civil War times. Thanks, Dick Warren |
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09 Jun 98 - 02:32 AM (#30385) Subject: RE: Break the News to Mother From: PKD on Teesside Dick, There is a music-hall song with a chorus that goes:
Just break the news to mother
It may be civil war (I had always assumed it to be WW1). Paul |
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09 Jun 98 - 02:48 PM (#30437) Subject: Lyr Add: BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER (Chas. K Harris) From: PKD on Teesside Assuming I have the right song, this is it BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER (Charles K. Harris, 1897) While the shot and shell were screaming upon the battlefield, The boys in blue were fighting their noble flag to shield. Came a cry from their brave captain: "Look, boys! our flag is down. Who'll volunteer to save it from disgrace?" "I will," a young voice shouted. "I'll bring it back or die," Then sprang into the thickest of the fray, Saved the flag but gave his young life, all for his country's sake. They brought him back and softly heard him say: CHORUS: "Just break the news to mother; she knows how dear I love her, And tell her not to weep for me, for I'm not coming home. Just say there is no other can take the place of mother, Then kiss her dear, sweet lips for me, and break the news to her." From afar a noted general had witnessed this brave deed. "Who saved our flag? Speak up, lads; ‘twas noble, brave, indeed!" "There he lies, sir," said the captain. "hHe's sinking very fast," Then slowly turned away to hide a tear. The general in a moment knelt down beside the boy, Then gave a cry that touch'd all hearts that day. "It's my son, my brave young hero; I thought you safe at home." "Forgive me, father, for I ran away." CHORUS Cheers Paul |
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09 Jun 98 - 03:18 PM (#30438) Subject: RE: Break the News to Mother From: Joe Offer Gosh, Paul, that's a real tear-jerker. I liked it. I hope you don't mind, but I added line breaks and indents to make it look like what you pasted into the message-posting box. The code for line breaks is < BR > - that's [br], but in angle brackets, with no spaces. You can indent a paragraph by beginning it with < blockquote> and ending it with < /blockquote>. -Joe Offer- |
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10 Jun 98 - 07:06 PM (#30514) Subject: RE: Break the News to Mother From: Thanks to you all. My Dad used to sing it and I really did not know if the song actually existed! Dick Warren |
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09 Apr 04 - 01:12 AM (#1157779) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Break the News to Mother From: Jim Dixon The Virtual Gramophone has 5 recordings of this song dated between 1902 and 1918. |
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09 Apr 04 - 02:56 AM (#1157806) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Break the News to Mother From: Sandy Paton Arnold Keith Storm of Mooresville, Indiana, recorded a midwestern folk processed version that he had learned from his father. It's on Folk-Legacy's CD-18, titled "Take the News to Mother (and Other Songs of a More Sentimental Age)." Sandy |
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09 Apr 04 - 11:22 AM (#1157839) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Break the News to Mother From: GUEST,Jim Ward This song was written by Chas. K. Harris, who was known as "The king of the tear-jerkers". Interestingly, he originally wrote it about a fireman killed in a fire, but in 1897 at the time of the Spanish- American war he re-wrote it as a battle song. A couple of years later it became a big hit in Britain at the time of the Boar War. Harris was better known for writing "After The Ball" |
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09 Apr 04 - 01:11 PM (#1157933) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Break the News to Mother From: masato sakurai Sheet music is at Historic American Sheet Music: BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER By Chas. K. (Charles Kassell) Harris (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Chas. K. Harris, 1897) |
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09 Feb 16 - 01:38 PM (#3771614) Subject: Lyr Req: Break the News to Mother (Chas. K Harris) From: keberoxu Thanks for setting me straight; for no reason that I can recall, for years I have believed this to be a Stephen Foster tune....maybe from seeing it in an anthology someplace. The author of "After the Ball" -- now, that has far better sense. |