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30 Nov 02 - 09:58 AM (#837694) Subject: Lyr Req: "Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: GUEST,Newfiegirl Can someone please help me find the lyrics to this song?" "Save my Mothers picture from the sale"... thanks. |
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30 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM (#837700) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: Sorcha 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........... |
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30 Nov 02 - 10:31 AM (#837702) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: masato sakurai 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 |
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30 Nov 02 - 10:36 AM (#837705) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: Sorcha Dadgummit, I keep forgetting about Levy; thanks Masato! |
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30 Nov 02 - 10:40 AM (#837708) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: masato sakurai 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? |
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30 Nov 02 - 10:50 AM (#837714) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: Sorcha I didn't find it. |
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30 Nov 02 - 02:30 PM (#837819) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: GUEST,Newfiegirl 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... |
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03 Dec 02 - 11:30 PM (#840092) Subject: Lyr Add: SAVE MY MOTHER'S PICTURE From: Jim Dixon 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. |
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04 Dec 02 - 01:51 AM (#840149) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: Stewie 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. |
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04 Dec 02 - 05:19 AM (#840194) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Save MY MOTHERS PICTURE FROM THE SALE' From: masato sakurai Thank you, Stewie. |