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28 Dec 02 - 12:39 PM (#854576) Subject: Lyr Req: 'Be home early tonight, my dear boy' From: GUEST,Newfiegirl Can anybody please help me with the lyrics to this song?" here are some of the words I know....god bless. "Come home early tonight my dear boy" I traveled through life I've seen many things .................................. ............... when my days work was done to the town I would go there for my nights fun and joy but before leaving home dear old mother would say come home early tonight my dear boy be home early tonight my dear boy be home early tonight my dear boy don't spend all your money in gambling and drink be home early tonight my dear boy ................ |
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28 Dec 02 - 12:46 PM (#854583) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Be home early tonight, my dear boy' From: GUEST Click here |
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28 Dec 02 - 07:08 PM (#854735) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Be home early tonight, my dear boy' From: masato sakurai The sheet music from African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (from Brown University). Click on picture for larger image. Mother's request : song and chorus / words & music by Dan Lewis (Originally published: Boston : White, Smith & Co., c1881). ~Masato |
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28 Dec 02 - 08:12 PM (#854750) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Be home early tonight, my dear boy' From: masato sakurai Another copy of Mother's request / by Dan Lewis (Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1881). |
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29 Dec 02 - 10:55 AM (#854990) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Be home early tonight, my dear boy' From: GUEST,Newfiegirl Thank you guys, that's the song I've been searching for. Take care and god bless...Newfiegirl |
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01 Feb 03 - 07:17 PM (#880338) Subject: Lyr Add: MOTHER'S REQUEST (Dan Lewis, 1881) From: Jim Dixon Transcribed from the sheet music at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1881.04496 MOTHER'S REQUEST (Dan Lewis, 1881) I have traveled through life; I have seen many things To surprise me in ev'ry form. I have been at the plough; I have been at the spade From dark till sunrise in the morn. But at night, when I'd go for some pleasure through town, I was always for pleasure and joy. My mother would say, when going away, "Be home early tonight, my dear boy." CHORUS: Be home early tonight, my dear boy. Be home early tonight, my dear boy. Don't spend all your money in gambling and drink. Be home early tonight, my dear boy. One night, I left home and poor mother was sick, In a fever of torturing pain. She said, "My dear boy, take this motto I give. I may never give it to you again." And when I returned from my night's fun and joy, I heard my poor mother was dead. 'Twas then a cold chill through my body did run When I thought of the last words she said: CHORUS All young men that are here, take this word of advice: To your father and mother attend, For a good mother's love, it should not be forgot. When she's dead, you have lost your best friend. Don't spend all your money in gambling and drink, For there's many a thing to enjoy. Take this lesson I give; 'twas a mother's request: Keep good hours at night, my dear boy. CHORUS |