When mother sings sweet and low, for voice and piano
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- Title
- When mother sings sweet and low, for voice and piano
- Publication year listed
- 1923
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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About this book
When mother sings sweet and low, for voice and piano
Author: Johnson, Howard
Year: 1923
[Verse 1] Each night in dreams I get just as homesick as I can be, / Somehow it seems I am in the cradle at Mother’s knee, / I hear a voice, then I rejoice, / She sings a song that will always live in my memory. [Chorus] “When Mother sings that old song, “Sweet and Low,” / Back to those dear cradle days then I go / Where I would lay, while she’d sway to and fro, / I’m still her baby and someday maybe, / Soon she will croon that old tune once again, / Just as she did years ago, / I dream of Angel’s wings and other Heav’nly things, / When Mother sings “Sweet and Low.” [repeat] [Verse 2] I’d give the world if I wasn’t so many miles away, / I’d give the world could I only see Mother right away, / I’d hold her tight, with all my might, / When twilight shadows begin to fall, you may hear me say: [Chorus]