Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire, Molly? / words by Robert F. Roden music by J. Fred Helf
MLA Citation
Helf, J. Fred. “Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire, Molly? / words by Robert F. Roden music by J. Fred Helf.” Digital Gallery. BGSU University Libraries, 23 May 2022, digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/17171. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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Title | Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire, Molly? / words by Robert F. Roden music by J. Fred Helf |
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Subject | Love songs |
Names, Personal -- Songs and music | |
New Hampshire -- Songs and music | |
Libbey, J. Aldrich, 1864-1925 -- Portraits | |
Huston, Thomas W. -- Portraits | |
Description | For voice and piano |
Cover title: Cover photo of J. Aldrich Libbey on cop.1 portrait of Thos. W Huston on cop.2 | |
Illustrated cover of a coman sitting in a window reading a letter. | |
Back cover: Excerpts from Let me see you smile and The bee that gets the honey doesn't hang around the hive | |
Creator | Helf, J. Fred |
Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
Publisher | New York : Helf & Hager |
Date | circa 1906 |
Contributor | Roden, Robert F., d.1934, Lyricist. |
Rights | |
Format | Sheet music |
Published works | |
image/jpeg | |
Type | Image |
Text | |
Identifier | SMC 00078a |
https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/17171 | |
Alternative Title | First line of text: I am writing to you Molly while the fair moon softly shines;First line of chorus Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire Molly. |
Date Modified | 2015-08-05 |
References | http://maurice.bgsu.edu:80/record=b2233307~S9 |
VERSE 01: I am writing to you, Molly, while the fair moon softly shines./ As it did the night before you went away,/ When I told love's old, old story as it shone in all its glory,/ And you promised you'd return and wed some day,/ Now folks laugh and call it folly when I tell them you're still true,/ But you love me don't you Molly?/ Say you're coming home, please do. CHORUS: Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire Molly,/ Ain't you coming back to see us once again?/ The folks all say/ You won't come back you won't come back you won't come back,/ But something seems to whisper that you love me,/ As you did before you went away to roam;/ Ain't you coming back to old New Hampshire Molly?/ Write and say you're coming home. VERSE 02: All alone I'm roaming, Molly, down the dear old village lane,/ To the wildwood where we roam'd with hearts so light,/ In the old church they are singing, sweetest memories they're bringing,/ Of the girl I love so far away tonight;/ Sweetheart mine I'm sadly sighing, for I'm lonely when you roam,/ So then Molly when replying,/ Won't you say you're coming home? | |
Original Format | 1 score (5 p.) 34 cm |