The Bravest heart of all : song / lyric by Raymond Egan music by Richard A. Whiting
MLA Citation
Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938. “The Bravest heart of all : song / lyric by Raymond Egan music by Richard A. Whiting.” Digital Gallery. BGSU University Libraries, 23 May 2022, digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/32838. Accessed 8 Dec. 2024.
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Title | The Bravest heart of all : song / lyric by Raymond Egan music by Richard A. Whiting |
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Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music |
Songs with piano | |
Popular music -- United States -- 1911-1920 | |
Description | For voice and piano |
Caption title | |
Illustrated cover with a young boy held by his mother waving to ships leaving for war | |
Back cover: Advertisement for the Star dance folio | |
Creator | Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938 |
Source | Sheet Music Collection; Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
Publisher | New York ;Detroit : Jerome H. Remick & Co. |
Date | 1917 |
Contributor | Egan, Raymond B., 1890-1952. Lyricist. |
Rights | |
Format | Sheet music |
Published works | |
image/jpeg | |
Type | Image |
Text | |
Identifier | SMC 01373 |
471-2 Jerome H. Remick | |
https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/32838 | |
Alternative Title | First line of text: I saw a mother and a baby on an ocean pier today;First line of chorus: My little laddie boy, oh my laddie boy, you're only five years old today |
References | https://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=b2349042~S9 |
VERSE 01: I saw a mother and a baby on an ocean pier today./I heard the baby cry for daddy, when the big ship sail’d away./As the steamer slowly vanish’d bound for France across the sea,/The mother clasp’d the baby, and she whisper’d tenderly VERSE 02: Today there’s many many daddies who will sail across the foam./And there are many many mothers, who will wait and pray at home./There are many teardrops, that are only born to stray,/Down the cheeks of little laddies, as they hear their mothers say CHORUS: My little laddie boy oh my laddie boy/You’re only five years old today/You have your daddy’s eyes bluer than the skies,/And they sparkle when you play./Mother loves her little shaver./He’s the sunshine Heaven gave her,/Just to cheer away all the tears that stray/Since your daddy sail’d away/My little laddie dear there’s a day I fear/When you will be so brave and tall/Someday, you’ll be a man sir and then you’ll answer/To dear old Glory’s call/Like your dad you’d sail away,/With a heart so brave and gay./But when you depart, then your mother’s heart,/Will be the Bravest Heart of All. | |
Original Format | 1 score (3 pages) 36 cm |