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Come home, Father / words & music by Henry C. Work ; arranged for the guitar by Geo. A. Russell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 28, no. 55
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Work, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1832-1884.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music in the theater.
- Temperance--Songs and music.
- Songs with guitar.
- Genre:
- Songs with guitar.
- Songs.
- Scores.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (5 pages) ; 34 cm
- Contained In:
- Keffer Collection of Sheet Music.
- Other Title:
- Father, dear father, come home with me now.
- Hear the sweet voice of the child.
- Popular songs arranged for the guitar.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago (67 Washington St., Chicago) : Root & Cady, [1863]
- Notes:
- Song; for voice and guitar; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and guitar.
- Caption title.
- Collection title on t.p.: Popular songs arranged for the guitar.
- Introduced in the play Ten nights in a bar-room by Timothy Shay Arthur. cf. Mattfeld, Variety music cavalcade, p. 117.
- "'Tis the song of little Mary standing at the bar-room door while the shameful midnight revel rages wildly as before."--P. 3.
- First line of text: Father, dear father, come home with me now.
- First line of chorus: Hear the sweet voice of the child.
- OCLC:
- 77881990
- Publisher Number:
- 432 4 Root & Cady
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